ESL in China is not a job, and I am resolutely not sorry for stating that fact. Your thinking is so small here, it is a hiatus or a holiday, nothing more. Working at EF is NOT a Career!!!!! Not one student remembers you after you are gone, not one, and certainly no other EF staff will.

As for students not remembering me, I best mention that to the students who regularly send me email updates about how they're getting on, and to the students I speak to on kakao chat.

And the EF staff who don't remember me... Again, still in contact with most of them actually. One flew from America to visit me while I lived in Italy, another I'm having drinks with when we're both back in the UK over the Christmas holidays and one is one of my best friends in the world who I spoke to only today!

Just because your students and colleagues are in a hurry to forget you, doesn't mean that's true for me!