Feeling a bit down and awkward even after 6 months in Portugal, I posted something about my “status”
on Facebook and was amazed at the more than 150 responses I got from former students and friends.
Because some of the comments amazed me, I want to share some of them with you, the Dekan who had
the courage to let me teach such wonderful students:
I’ve been traveling alone now for about 9 years and so far have lived in Ecuador, Peru, Brasil, Argentina, Turkey and now Portugal, in Lisbon, where I have lived since July 2011.
Up to now, my longest visits have been my 3-year stay in Brasil, and more recently my 5 year life in Turkey.
Being a stranger in a strange land is sometimes awkward, sometimes very lonely, but better than living a life of compromise permanently attached to a house or city.
I know where I will be this month, but do not know if I will still be in Lisbon 6 months from now. Much freedom, lots of anxiety, but I have no regrets about how I have lived my life the last 9 years.
Students Comments :
• you are the king of all professors I  know.
• best way to live the life!!!
• incredible person ever
• I just stared your this message a while.. We are all children of yours. You have many many homes still here in Turkey. Take care of you and enjoy your life. Whatever. I salute and kiss your hands as always in front of the faculty. That’s all I can say for the moment.
• You are a total inspiration Bill !!!
• by the way, is your handsome motorbike still with you? it was best show with your motorbike in front of our law faculty i had ever seen
• may we all have the chance to frame that last sentence quite like a quote from a movie..nice motto Bill best regards.
• I do not know if what you taught me in US law lessons will be useful for me but I’m sure that what you taught me about life will always be vital for me ..
• You are the BOSS! DA BAUS!
•  We still have law firm 1-2, please come back!  i miss you big time.
• “People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson! It’s Guillaume the Erasmus in 2009/2010. I am myself in England for my MA in entrepreneurship. I plan to stay a few years over here I think & then to move on somewhere else.
• Everybody wishes they could have a lifestyle like yours… But everybody knows they need a brave heart like yours… We’ll miss you.
• In this way you have lots of love all over the world..we missed you Dady.. Üşüyoruz yoklugunda Dady REİS
• god speed…
• Just think of all the lives you have empowered and touched in a special way, lives that are blessed by you in one way or another. Staying in one spot would not have allowed you to do that, I call that Divine Intervention!
• Keep on rockin in the free world.
• Bill you are my friend….a reason to smile…. a guide who shows how to live, how to dive, how to climb, and how not to give up wondering what’s next:)  i miss you my teacher father friend.