I leapt back into teaching with my soul restored, eager to embrace all that lay ahead of me. We played lots of music in class, working the nouns, verbs and adverbs around the songs, while the students continued to learn more vocabulary related to the wild outback of Australia. Fortunately the school continued to let …

March 1994 ‘Taaaarnya?’ A young, slim woman with high cheekbones and short, dark curly hair disentangled herself from the crowd in the arrivals hall of Prague-Ruzyně International Airport. My legs wobbled and I was flooded with relief. I’d just endured three hours of wrong queues, wrong box offices, and interrogations by passport and immigration officials …