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I have Iraq in my shoe, misadventures of a soldier of fashion : a memoir, Gretchen Berg

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I have Iraq in my shoe, misadventures of a soldier of fashion : a memoir, Gretchen Berg

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

I have Iraq in my shoe

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electronic resource

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bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

782879977

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Gretchen Berg

Sub title

misadventures of a soldier of fashion : a memoir

Summary

"I am not moving to Iraq to teach." How does a liberal American girl in red suede boots end up teaching English to conservative Muslim Iraqis in headscarves? Gretchen Berg has met the recession: she has eaten cereal for dinner, given up the gym membership, and come face to face with looming unemployment. To cope, she decided to uproot her life and move to the Middle East. She expected to make some good money, pay off some bad debt, and take some photos of camels. She did not expect to feel at home. She did not expect to fall for a student. She did not expect Diet Coke withdrawal

Table Of Contents

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Part 1: Opportunity Knocks; Chapter One: Fiddle-Dee-Dee; Chapter Two: Knock-Knock, It's Iraq!; Chapter Three: Details, Details; Chapter Four: Joan of Arc & She-Ra Will Work for Shoes; Chapter Five: Hockey Bags, Eh?; Chapter Six: As the Dude Turns; Part 2: Everything! Exciting & New!; Chapter Seven: The Iraq--Welcome to Smell; Chapter Eight: I'm an Immigrant; Chapter Nine: "E" is for "Erbil" and "Embellishment"; Chapter Ten: Attempted Assimilation; Chapter Eleven: Assimilation Speed Bumps; Chapter Twelve: Escaping ErbilChapter Thirteen: We've Got Students, Convenience, and HookersChapter Fourteen: Shopping, BBQing, and Santa Claus; Chapter Fifteen: Serenity Later; Chapter Sixteen: Actual Assimilation; Chapter Seventeen: Inshallah; Part 3: The Honeymoon is Over; Chapter Eighteen: Idle Threats; Chapter Nineteen: Erbil is Da Bomb; Chapter Twenty: The Real Housewives of Erbil; Part 4: Change is Good; Chapter Twenty-one: Happy Birthday! Kind of.; Chapter Twenty-two: Kicking and Screaming; Chapter Twenty-three: The New Students; Chapter Twenty-four: Awat's Happening; Chapter Twenty-five: Virginity SoapChapter Twenty-six: Common Sense, Totally BrokenChapter Twenty-seven: The Straw That Broke the Donkey's Back; Part 5: Love! Exciting and New!; Chapter Twenty-eight: Afternoon Delight; Chapter Twenty-nine: Shifta; Chapter Thirty: Crazy Pills; Chapter Thirty-one: He's Just Not That into You; Chapter Thirty-two: Blockheads and Kissing Cousins; Chapter Thirty-three: Georgie Catstanza; Chapter Thirty-four: Psychic Sahar; Chapter Thirty-five: The Joys of Travel; Part 6: Clarity; Chapter Thirty-six: OMG!; Chapter Thirty-seven: New Year, New News; Chapter Thirty-eight: Ethics, SchmethicsChapter Thirty-nine: My Villa/Hotel/OfficeChapter Forty: Reality Bites; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Back Cover

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