A Job Application in The Times of the Coronavirus Pandemic

During my first professional career as an international teacher, for about two decades I worked in ten countries around the world spread over five continents. Also during that time, I wrote innumerable job applications for positions all over the world from Latin America in the south to Scandinavia in the North; from The United States of America in the West to Japan in the East, and many more positions in countries in between.

What I have reproduced in this blog post, however, is my first international job application during these times of the coronavirus pandemic. Of course, it's a little different from all those that came before.

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“The Power and Place of Music in our Lives”

Music stirs you, in ways and for reasons one might not even understand. It had been stirring me since my traumatic, despair-filled days in Doha jail, except I didn't know why. Thanks to a welcome address given by a musician, describing how and why music does stirs you deeply, I do now.

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With Maya (President Obama's sister) and my dear friend Kirsten, who introduced me to Maya, at University of Hawaii.
With Maya (President Obama's sister) and my dear friend Kirsten, who introduced me to Maya, at University of Hawaii.

University of Hawaii: Education, Leadership & Life

Short description of and photos from presentation I made to Professor Maya Soetoro-Ng's Leadership for Social Change class at University of Hawaii. Professor Maya is President Obama's sister.

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TIC: Dreams, Humanity, Compassion & World Peace for a Meaningful Life

The embedded video is that of the presentation I gave at Thames International College in Kathmandu. I talked about dreams, humanity, compassion, international understanding, peace and making life meaningful to a small auditorium full of students doing their undergraduate studies in Social Work.

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