Rosie Erskine Lamrhari

You don’t have to travel to the Outback to enjoy the raucous laughter of the kookaburra – or to Chile for a glimpse of long-legged, pink flamingos.  These exotic birds are in your own “backyard.”  A pair of Australian kookaburra, renowned for their boisterous, unmistakable call, and a small flock of colorful flamingos from Chile are only a few of the lucky residents at Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park in Scotland Neck, a small community about 1 hour north of Greenville. 

Teaching English as a Second Language is not my first career, not even my second.  It is my third.  And it is a testimonial to the saying:  “It’s never too late.”  In January 1996, I moved by myself from Asheville, where I’d spent 29 years of my life, to Greenville in order to pursue a Masters Degree in English Education at East Carolina University.  I arrived a middle-aged woman without a job – but with great determination to find one quickly and to complete the Masters program in two years.  I succeeded in both, and in January 1998 moved, again by myself, to Casablanca, Morocco, where I spent the next 20 months teaching English as a Second Language.