USSR, USA, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Panama City, United Kingdom, India, Singapore, Brazil, Jamaica, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Korea, Dubai, Brussels, Luxemburg, New Zealand, Australia, PNG, New Caledonia, Tonga and Geneva to mention a few that gave me a lot of new ideas. As a successful teacher I used to inspire not only my students but my other colleagues to make them realize that there were always rocks in the path ahead of us. We were to take these as either the stumbling blocks or the stepping stones. I used the rocks in front of me as my stepping stones and that was my reason to join the union. I served as an ordinary member, as an executive member, as publicity officer, as international relations officer and as editor of various publications of the union for two decades. As a teacher I had developed many kinds of love: love of the teaching profession, love of the learning processes, love of the learners, love of the learning institutions and the love of the community. Then I endeavoured to bring all these loves together when I joined the union. This was the reason why the union and I as the editor of several publications kept our pressure on the authorities for the following five aspects of our deep concern: