My personal foreign country

Lesley Barnes  |  Features
Date posted:  1 May 2012
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Between 2003 and 2006 I entered a foreign country. I didn’t want to be there. I was held against my will.

It began when I was made redundant from my teaching job of ten years. I got a part-time job in a very tough school which I enjoyed, but the contract was for a year so I started supply teaching. It was a good nursery school with a very experienced nursery nurse, but just before I began I started to get nervous in an irrational way. Although the teaching was going well, I could not settle.

My husband’s business began to struggle and we had to re-mortgage immediately and put our family home of 21 years up for sale. This was the final straw.

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