Edward August Schack

Classes of Travel (eBook, ePUB)

Things I Learned and Taught Along the Way

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Classes of Travel' recounts lessons learned and taught in dozens of trips around the globe by a man of contradictions teaching English to university students, Thai high school students and teachers as a Peace Corps Volunteer, Saudi military personnel, refugees from Southeast Asia and others, serving on the front lines of the so-called 'war on drugs' as a U.S. Customs Inspector, training border law enforcement officers in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Former Soviet Union and serving as a diplomat in Washington, D.C., Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, war-torn Afghanistan and Croatia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BookBaby
• Seitenzahl: 492
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798350933727
• Artikelnr.: 69951030

Autorenporträt

Ed Schack started life in inner city Detroit, Michigan where most of his ancestors migrated to from Europe and he grew up there and in the neighboring working class suburbs where he and his mates engaged in petty crime and suffered through public school facing likely induction into the military during the war in Vietnam. After his days in the stateside Army, Schack successfully navigated his way through undergraduate and graduate work at Eastern Michigan University and deployment to the Peace Corps in Thailand as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language which induced his lifelong lust for travel. After teaching newly arrived Indochinese Refugees in Washington State, he spent some time in Taif, Saudi Arabia in Saudi military base classrooms before returning to academia for additional graduate work at Ohio University and The University of Michigan. Following an ex-wife and daughter and future wife to Washington, DC, he landed gigs as a department store Santa Claus with some humorous consequences and as a business college English as a Second Language department head and teacher before joining the U.S. Federal Government as a Customs Inspector in San Francisco. His success on the front lines of the drug war there led to his return to classrooms as a training team leader providing counternarcotics training to border law enforcement officers around the world. In his memoir he details his work and adventures in countries off the beaten track and his meetings with somewhat famous and infamous figures. He moves on to other work for Customs including bilateral engagement with the governments of Mexico and Canada before leaving the agency to accompany his foreign service officer spouse on her assignment to the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok. Schack joined the State Department there and was soon back in the world of counternarcotics first in DC overseeing law enforcement foreign assistance in the countries of the Former Soviet Union and then on the ground in Armenia as the narcotics affairs officer managing the assistance programs in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Then it was on to war torn Afghanistan and frustrating work trying to support the development of the Afghan National Police to prepare them to keep the peace we hoped to achieve there. Schack returned for some years to a new Customs under the Department of Homeland Security to help develop training programs before deploying again with the State Department for work as a management officer at the embassy in Croatia. He ended his formal government career as an inspector for the State Department Inspector General. In semi-retirement, Schack works occasionally controlling access to State Department headquarters between international travel opportunities including a recent 15-month stay in Belgrade, Serbia, where his wife worked at the embassy and they travelled extensively around the Balkans and other parts of Europe which he describes in the latter part of his memoir.