I hit the big 60 in September, I have a good pension and I have a dream of living in the country with cats and horses. While I was house hunting I was asked to help out with coaching undergrad students with their English, a 'part-time' job that quickly metamorphosed into Head of the English Department at a new university in Sarajevo. So I said I would stay for one year, while I househunted. Then in Jan I found mmy dream home in Normandy and decided I would move there over the summer following some renovation work. Story so far.
Now the Chancellor is begging me to stay on, and in fact kind of assuming I am by involving me in all next year's planning, including setting up a new course in Political Science (my original major), though I think he is stopping short of asking me to teach it! Meanwhile the house renovator in France has had an accident and won't be able to work this summer on my house, and I am in a quandary. My mother is 91 next month and wants me closer to home, though I can't plan my life around her and she understands that. The students have begun to ask me if I will teach them next year, and I don't know what to say. I don't need the (minimal) salary, and I am so looking forward to doing some things I want to do, including writing some coursework for another university, but I feel useful here and want to help this venture to succeed. It has got tot he stage where I feel I am letting them down if I go, htough I have already exceeded my original promise. It is so difficult to know what to do!
Now the Chancellor is begging me to stay on, and in fact kind of assuming I am by involving me in all next year's planning, including setting up a new course in Political Science (my original major), though I think he is stopping short of asking me to teach it! Meanwhile the house renovator in France has had an accident and won't be able to work this summer on my house, and I am in a quandary. My mother is 91 next month and wants me closer to home, though I can't plan my life around her and she understands that. The students have begun to ask me if I will teach them next year, and I don't know what to say. I don't need the (minimal) salary, and I am so looking forward to doing some things I want to do, including writing some coursework for another university, but I feel useful here and want to help this venture to succeed. It has got tot he stage where I feel I am letting them down if I go, htough I have already exceeded my original promise. It is so difficult to know what to do!