Adventures. Teacher's Book. Intermediate

I swallowed the last of my beer and rose from the sand. As I turned, my eyes were seized byColumbiaБЂ™s xenon halo. Over the black silhouettes of the palmettos, the salt-laden air glowed white with it. She awaited her Prime Crew. I envied the hell out of them. Epilogue In my post-MECO life I found an unlikely horizon to exploreБЂ”I became a professional speaker. Given my early adventures at the podiums of America, that might seem like a disaster waiting to happen but IБЂ™ve learned to corral my Planet AD tendencies and fake normalcy. With a microphone in my hand I am a model of political correctness. Hoot would never recognize me. I deliver inspiring, motivational, and humorous programs on the subjects of teamwork and leadership. I learned the good, the bad, and the ugly about those topics while at NASA. This book has been another horizon I had to sail over. There has always been a secret chamber in my soul where the flame of literary creation has flickered. In high school I loved it when teachers assigned term papers, a fact I kept quiet, knowing my classmates would have beaten me to death had they known ...»