How It Started

The Beanstalk Adventure (or as Dave calls it “Sue’s Big Adventure”) started sometime around the middle of July when I came across an announcement for a librarian at Beanstalk International Bilingual School in Beijing. I posted my resume, clicked “Apply Now” and waited. It wasn’t long before I received an email asking for a telephone interview, and before I knew it, I had a job offer.
What to do? I had been thinking about teaching in Beijing for a few years, ever since Bill moved back there, but that was mostly just building castles in the air. I didn’t really expect it to happen. Suddenly, I was faced with the opportunity and had to decide to go for it or not. When I was thinking practically, which was most of the time, I couldn’t imagine going. I couldn’t leave Dave for that long. I was in the middle of too many projects, especially Dad’s biography. My garden needed me! But in the end I realized that an adventure I didn’t want to miss and now it now has begun.