{"product_id":"2940151847674","title":"A Very Late Gap Year In Taiwan","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt 31 something was missing from my life. I was dropping out of engineering graduate school and drifting aimlessly through life’s troubled waters, inexorably toward what I used to consider middle age. But I had no kids, no wife, and no career. Something had to change. That change, I decided, was going to be a gap year overseas. I scoured the internet for all the information I could find on teaching ESL in Asia. I and already been to Europe in college (the first time), and there was just something about the women on the other side of the Pacific.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’d be lying if I said all the information that I found was tinted rose, but compared to grad school, it was rosy enough for me at the time. I bought a one way ticket for Taiwan, I signed a one year contract with a school called Gloria in Taoyuan County, and I quit after 10 months to fly home again. I also went on numerous blind dates, met a girl, taught kindergarten, traveled to the ruins in Cambodia, hiked all over the the east and south coasts of Taiwan, and tried to learn Mandarin. I also wrote a book so that the reading public can learn from and laugh at my many, many, mistakes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"P. R. Travis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069321167088,"sku":"2940151847674","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151847674_p0.jpg?v=1764014300","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151847674","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}