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This was supposed to be a self-congratulatory post to pat myself on the back for a good 6 months of TEFLtasticking, but I must be getting sentimental in my old age and/ or around Xmas, because instead I’d like to give my TEFL Oscar acceptance speech and thank everyone else involved:

I’d like to thank:

-All the people who are responsible for the 60,000 views or so there have been in 6 months, including the person who searched for “alex case for hamster” on Christmas day, and if that means just 6 people viewing 10,000 times each I’d like to thank each of you even more…

- Anyone who has written any of the 450 comments, especially those who answered questions from readers (more questions always welcome) and those who made me chuckle

- All the blogs who have linked to me or mentioned my stuff, especially if there are any who I haven’t paid back because their mutual link has got lost in my mess of a links page

- Whoever the people at Wordpress might be doing whatever it is they might do that somehow makes it possible to do this

And a special mention for my guest writers (please have a click and a read if you have’t read their posts yet, it makes a very nice break from me waffling on) Katie from TEFLlogue for writing about “When I am TEFL President” and Do’s and Don’ts in Bosnia, Kaithe for writing about being Troubled in Tunisia, Sharon for writing about Eastern Europe when it really was an adventure, and Laurent from lo-la.co.uk on passing as and improving on a native speaker English teacher in Japan.

And finally a huge thank you to the editor of TEFL.net, who first suggested me starting a blog in June this year, for which my eternal gratitude should more than make up for the curses he gets from my fiancee, who I guess should also get a thank you for putting up with it. And thanks to my agent, my hairdresser, my make up artist, my stylist, I love you guys, sob sob sob, wave to the crowd (this speech still needs some work I think, all done much better by John Cleese)