‘YOU BELONG TO ME NOW’

As my brother Andrew, 30, drove me to the airport, I was grinning in anticipation for my new adventure.

I was 32, and on my way to Beijing, China, to start a teaching job abroad.

Working as an accountant, I’d been stagnating at home.

Waiting for ‘something’ to happen, but not doing anything to tempt it.

So that’s when I came up with the idea of working my way around the world.

I wanted to understand what it was like to live and breathe another culture.

So, in September 2011, I signed up to an online Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) course with the aim to get qualified and travel my way around different countries.