During my first year teaching overseas, I amassed so many notes of all the things I wish I had known before heading overseas that I decided to put them all together to help others who, like me, wanted to venture overseas to teach English. These are personal insights I gained from experience. Though things change and I have updated this book over the years, most of what I originally jotted down still holds true today. For anyone thinking of teaching overseas, this book is a preparation and survival guide. It is interesting, informative and it might save them many headaches in their new role as an ESL teacher abroad.