They went for an adventure, working overseas in an all-girl Arabic school and they found themselves in an impossible situation.

Pamela Woodrow’s Lost in Translation explores the challenges of working as a teacher in a foreign land. Pamela details her two-year stint working as a teacher in the Middle Eastern city of Doha, where the customs differed vastly from her own.

When two male professors are introduced to supervise seventy-five female teachers, she was forced to navigate a high-pressure environment while her every move was scrutinised.

An attempted suicide brought to light the pressure everyone was under. The foreign staff were in a precarious situation and the harsh reality was that leaving would not be as simple as hopping on a plane with their suitcases.

Travel with Pamela as she explores the pitfalls of overseas contracts and working within a different culture under trying circumstances.