Jacqueline Smyth:
CLASS OF 1998
Nipissing University CollegeClass of 1998
North bay, ON
University of Toronto - Erindale CollegeClass of 1995
Toronto, ON
Holy Name of Mary High SchoolClass of 1989
Mississauga, ON
Jacqueline's Story
If anyone told me that I would be living in China going on eight years, then my first thought would have been "How will I read the Toronto Star?" Well, online now. I'm not suggesting that it is a great paper, only that it is a piece of home. Ever since I left Nipissing with memories of friends and school I have only thought about my next teaching post. I, unlike my friends, did not have the promised job for September. So I decided to look outside of Ontario. At first, I told my family that I would search in Canada. After a call from a retired Superintendent from Durham, I accepted a teaching position in Kuwait. The experience was beyo...Expand for more
nd what I expected, smells, sounds, feelings of surprise, anticipation, and the heat, together they left a deep impression on my being. I only wanted more. So I looked for more in Saudi, Hong Kong, and finally China.
Fourteen years later (that is hard to type, it only feels like a few months ago), I am still an expat, a little less interested in travel adventures, and more interested in my annual visits to the lakes and trails of Ontario, particularly the Bancroft area. Once a complete stranger told me that I lived a charmed life. Well, sitting on the shores of a lake surrounded by the beauty of Canadian nature ...I guess that I am.
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