I type International Teaching Jobs on the Google search line and find several sites but I decide on one particularly useful site for which I pay a slight fee and I find myself looking at a long list of teaching jobs all over the world. Anything in Latin America? my wife Chantal asks coming into the room. No... but here's one in the Congo. I hit the submit button and my resume is off across the world. What follows are four action-packed years of living working and traveling in sub-saharan Africa. This book chronicles the first year and a half of these adventures including the day-to-day life of a teacher at The American School of Kinshasa from 2005-2007 who deals with a marginal infrastructure the everyday challenges of living in a war-torn third-world country and adventures in Zimbabwe South Africa Mozambique and Ethiopia. The adventure is continues with the sequel to this book Calculus in the Congo Book 2.