It's a Sunday night, exactly 10 pm. Normally I'd be avoiding lesson planning and getting ready to start the week all over again; steeling my reserves for the students' antics, both of the funny and frustrating variety. However, last Thursday I stumbled upon an unexpected light in my schedule. I was informed by my contact teacher, Erica, that all of the Junior 2's have "technical training" this week, before she broke out in a wide grin and followed it up with a "very good, right?". I was quick to agree with her and then hastily sent out a text message to several friends to brag about my good fortune. Five minutes later I was on the airAsia website looking at what flights I could possibly get out of SZ with a few days notice. Eventually I
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