Leigh in Azerbaijan

After having been an entertainer for a generation, I travelled to the USA with my wife, Tanya, while she completed a M.Div. While in the USA I had 11 weeks of Spanish tuition in Guatemala and found the experience both hard and exhilarating. On returning to Australia (God bless her) I found that I didn’t wish to continue with entertaining, so used the last semester of 2003 to complete a B.Ed (In service) majoring in Ab. Studies.

I taught at Crossways Lutheran School, Ceduna, SA from 2004 to 2006.

On returning from a trip to Latin Am and Nth Am. Tanya and I passed through Hong Kong where we stayed with Mark Altmann and Cathy Wiebusch who were teaching at Hong Kong International School. It was then that I decided that it would be good to teach at an international school, so I sought out an agency that linked teachers with schools.

On attending a school fair in Sydney, in January 2007, I was offered a 6 month position at The Koc School, Istanbul in Turkey.  Towards the end of that time I was offered a two year contract at The International School of Azerbaijan, which is where I am now.

Azerbaijani people are turkic and and have a language very similar to Turkish.   They understand each other somewhat but the language sounds very different to my ear.