Chapter 3: The English StudentThey continued talking, almost every day, Stuart becoming more and more fascinated with this young man and his hopes and dreams. He tried to think back to when he was Amal’s age twenty years ago. He’d just graduated college with hopes of becoming a teacher and a writer. That was all delayed with a seven-year stint in the army, which fortunately was in peacetime. When he’d finally started teaching at the age of nearly thirty, he didn’t find it much to his liking. Years later, he became successful enough as an author to finally leave teaching behind. He was much happier working at home on his own schedule with the freedom to take vacations any time.
Now, after being out of the classroom for six years, he was enjoying returning to teaching English via Skype with
