#lifewoes

कुछ लोग झूठ बोलने में इतने माहिर होते हैं ।

सच को खुद के होने पे शर्म आती है।

In March of 2012 I took a gamble on a job advertisement on TES.Work for a competitive salary(tax free of course!), in a well resourced (ha!!!)British based Curriculum (again ha!!)International school. I’m Irish and in the aftermath of the recession I’ve been considerably lucky with employment, so leaving Ireland was a choice, something I wanted to do!I wanted the cultural experience, the opportunity to travel and the chance to save some money before the dreaded thought of settling down!!There was also the pull of sun shine all year round and the idea of lying on a beach in December, gloriously tanned of course (my pale skinned body can dream can’t it?!) So to paraphrase the Wolfe Tones I boarded a train and I caught me a plane and I found myself in the UAE!!It’s been over a year and I’m currently sitting back in a kitchen in Ireland!I didn’t come home last year for Christmas and the gloss and shine of the UAE is beginning to tarnish mainly because I work for people who have very little consideration for a job I love! I imagine they rub their hands in glee as the dirhams roll in, think Scrooge, but younger and with boobs!!So I find myself feeling sentimental this Christmas, wondering whether tax-free and paid for accommodation is worth the misery and headache of working for incredible fools…and then I see how tanned my leg is compared to my little sister’s and I think well maybe it is miserable but at least I’m gloriously* tanned!!