Nerd News: An American Teaches in Iraq

Read the whole thing.  Blurb:

The biggest challenge I face teaching in Iraqi Kurdistan is not the threat of terrorism, cultural boundaries, or my craving for a good cup of brewed coffee -- it is to live up to my students’ expectations, to be as good and wise a teacher as they believe me to be. Frankly, it scares the hell out of me. But I have to tell you, for a teacher, it doesn’t get any better than this.

To be teaching students who want to learn ... No, it doesn't get any better than this!  Oh, here is the website for the American University in Iraq -- Sulaimani.  Wow, I would love to do something like this, at least for a while.  Things do seem to be improving over there, as even the WaPo notes.