Well what a week that was. It has been the longest week I can remember for some time. The abrupt nature of the cessation of my classes with Whales English has been proceeded by a hard working and intensely feverish search for fresh opportunities. I had been looking at other teaching platforms over the last few months, though at a leisurely pace as you do when you think you have a dependable source of income chuntering through the gate. Oh how trusting and stupid we are. Well, trusting anyway.

So, after looking at and building profiles in Cambly, Italki and Preply, I came across another teaching platform that I had not heard of before. Amazing Talker is the website platformy thing. It looked wholesome, it looked clean and efficient. More than that, from the filling out of my profile I received instant support and contact. This seemed like a welcome arm around a slightly unloved shoulder. Obviously it is a platform looking to get as much out of teachers and students as it can. But you can do that in a cooperative way. So let’s hope they can.

Never trust a snake to make you dinner.

Never trust a snake to make your dinner.

Frank Bruno- 1948