'When are you going to get a proper job?' is a question people will ask me when I return to the West of England during the summer, perhaps to play a little cricket or cycle in the hills. They have in mind such work as plumber, tax inspector, estate agent or lion tamer, not swanning off to Poland to teach English. But teaching English in Lodz has become my life, and nothing gives me greater pleasure than witnessing learners use natural English in the classroom and thinking that I might have had a hand in that.
