Monday, December 10, 2012
About me
I was born in the UK and stayed there until I was about 23 when I went to Canada for a year where I worked at a cinema and for a newspaper. After I'd travelled across Canada by bus and seen a lot of the country, I came back to the UK where I trained as a teacher of English and found a job in Taiwan where a friend of mine was already working. I stayed there for about 4 years and then came to New Zealand.
I now call New Zealand home.
I like my down-time, I like being with my family and friends. I like the quiet but I love good music. I like a good party but I also love a book that pulls me in or a film that I can't turn away from. I like having time to appreciate things and don't like being rushed.
I love getting out of the city into the bush and going for a walk with my family, then along the beach and maybe stop for a coffee on the way home. One of my favourite places to visit is Bethels beach to do just those things.
I'm a bit of a dreamer and often find myself thinking that the grass is greener somewhere else. I enjoy teaching English but hope that my job will evolve in the future. I hope to travel and work in Latin America with my family and then return to NZ and who knows what would happen then. I would love to open my own school in the future with other teachers who would have the same vision as me.
In the future I'd love to see Mexico, a condor in the Andes, live in a house surrounded by bush and close to the sea and see my family grow together happily and healthily.
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Why were you break about cinema job?
ReplyDeleteDo you mean "why did i leave/quit my cinema job"?
DeleteWell, i loved it but the pay wasn't good, there was no future in it and I only had a work visa for 1 year.
How many children do you have? Where are your wife come from? How about Taiwan do you think? How often do you go back to UK every year?
ReplyDeleteI have 3 children (2 girls and a boy)
DeleteWhere DOES my wife come from? Well, we're not married - but she comes from New York.
I had a great time in Taiwan - great food and great people, bad traffic.
I dont go back to the UK very often - it's way too expensive.
So you stay in Taiwan for 4 years, can you speak chinese very well?
ReplyDeleteYes, I STAYED in Taiwan for quite a longf time. I could speak Chinese pretty well, but it's a bit rusty now.
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When do you feel which your job is good job?
ReplyDeleteGood question. I'll know when I have it.
DeleteWhat kind of school do you want to open?
ReplyDeleteMy experience is in teaching English so a language school would be an obvious option but I am also keen to give something back to the community so I have thought about a school that offers a free service to people who really need it, such as tutoring for example.
Deletewhy do you want to work in Latin America?
ReplyDeleteBecause I have never been there and would love to spend some time in that corner of the world. I have always enjoyed spending time with people from Latin America and am very interested in Mexico in particular.
DeleteAlso I want to have what Kiwis call an OE (overseas experience) with my family. I think it would be a fantastic thing to do as a family.
DeleteHow do you see your own school?
ReplyDeleteMaybe a language school that offers something other schools don't or a place that offers a service to poeple who are having problems at school - like a free tutoring service.
DeleteDid you learned Taiwanese, when you lived in Taiwan?
ReplyDeleteIn Taiwan, the official langauge is Mandarin Chinese (which I did learn). Taiwanese is a dialect that is also spoken and which is very similar to Mandarin but only really spoken in the South (I only learned a few phrases in Taiwanese).
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why would you like to see mexico?
ReplyDeletebecause i have never been to that part of the world and I hear its a great country. My partner is from the USA and it would be good to live nearer her family for a while.
Deletewhat kind of book do you like ?
ReplyDeleteNovels. I love books that take me to another place that are very different to my present life, not because I don't like my present situation but because I have a big imagination and like to have that exercised.
DeleteDo you want to open your own school in Mexico? Why not in your country?
ReplyDeleteI think opening a school in another country could be a BIG HEADACHE. But if i lived in Mexico and loved it then i guess it would be a possibility. NZ is home now so thats why I ould lke to open the school here.
DeleteSorry... that's why I would like to open the school here.
Deletewhat's this mean "I now call New Zealand home? " This mean is NZL like home?
ReplyDeleteAre you marred?
In the future,Do you want be a teacher?
What kind girl do you lake?
Yeah, when we say "I call X home" that means that this place is home for you. We usually use this phrase when we rae not talking about the country you were born in.
DeleteI enjoy teaching so would be happy to be a teacher in the future, but hopefully with more responsibility or teaching in a different context than now.
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LAKE, i think you mean LIKE.
Funky, interesting girls who like funky, interesting men.
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Which is your favorite country?
ReplyDeleteMy favourite country. I don't have one but if I could combine:
Deletethe lifestyle and landscape of NZ
the creativity and opportunity of the UK
the food from Taiwan
the colour of the Philippines
the cafes of France
the style of San Francisco
the pubs from the UK
I would be happy!