Misfit 5 - Paperback

John, Mister: - My life took a sharp turn to the different on April Fools' Day 1991 when I accepted a position to teach computers and math at United Arab Emirates University located in the desert oasis city of Al Ain. On the Men's Campus my first year, I taught on the Women's Campus for the next seven, one of the first unmarried Western men permitted to do so.I returned to the UAE in 2001 after the Higher Colleges of Technology hired me to develop a CAD/Interior Design program at Sharjah Women's College. It was there where I met Sue, a native of Canada and my wife-to-be. With the program in place, I transferred to Dubai Women's College to again teach computers and math while developing and writing subject-integrated student projects that became a model for the 12-campus system.In 2007, Sue and I retired, moving to our riverfront property off a dead-end dirt (we aspired to gravel) road in the mountains near Vilcabamba, Ecuador, where we currently reside. In 2017, we purchased a property on the Haida Gwaii archipelago in British Columbia, Canada, where we will one day make our last international move. Two years after moving to Ecuador, I began a five-year association with a company catering to expats and wannabes. Writing articles on life overseas, I was also the company's top-rated conference presenter. At Sue's suggestion, I began writing for myself, resulting in a book series featuring my make-you-laugh, make-you-cry, make-you-think stories. A native of Wisconsin, I graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, earning a B.S. in Architecture, a B.A. in Economics, and a Master of Architecture degree. To help finance my education, for ten seasons, I captained the Chief Waupaca, an authentic sternwheel paddleboat based at Clear Water Harbor on Waupaca's Chain O'Lakes.