The first non-native ever to teach at the US Defense Language Institute, I began my teaching career by teaching Korean to adults, many of them older than my mere 20 years. Teaching was interrupted by the USS Pueblo Incident, and National Security Agency selected me to cover one aspect of the developing situation in North Korea.
After honorable discharge I began pre-medical studies and earned my Doctor of Chiropractic degree 7 years later. 3 years on, I lost my clinical practice and my heart when my firstborn son was kidnapped.
Healing myself led back to Korea, where I taught other doctors, then a few years as medical equipment specialist with/for Korean companies building hospitals in Saudi Arabia, then to Thailand in 1985, where I have resided since then.
Applying what I'd learned at the US DLI about rapid-learning techniques, I applied them and was earning my livelihood in spoken Thai in 5 months. Five years on, I was deathly sick when an angel nursed me back and kept me clean and fed, and within a year we married our fortunes, yielding 17 years of wonderful life together, and a 15-year-old and a 13-year-old son, both of whom are fluently bilingual AND class leaders!
Not many, but one for a First Place Photograph as a dependent in the Strategic Air Force.
Nine semester credits toward a Master's of Arts in Education.
Lots.
Ask, even if your question seems 'off the wall', I'll answer courteously, succinctly and in a timely manner.