ManinVietnam
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | ESOL Teacher |
| Location | Pattaya, Chonburi, Thailand |
| Introduction | Read my first blog for an introduction to me. I am a 60 yr old ESOL teacher from, England who graduated in English/TESOL in 2005 from Wolverhampton uni and finished an MA in ELT at Sussex Uni in 2011. Now living in Pattaya, Thailand, which is about 150 kms south of Bangkok, I used to work at Silpakorn University. Now I work for a language school teaching mainly Japanese business people and online. I used to live in the wonderfully dilapidated Old Quarter near Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi which is 'beautiful' and changes daily. Then I moved to a shared house in Doi Can, which was a great place to live, with good housemates. I lived in a shared house in HCM but returned home to UK to do an MA in ELT. Now living in Pattaya, Thailand. |
| Interests | music, teaching, reading, Shakespeare, Dickens, Blake, movies, computers, Internet, shopping, people, bia hoi, bun cha, travel, Thai food. |
| Favorite movies | Changes regularly but atm it has to be Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, Kieslowski's Three Colors, Red, White and Blue (I studied European Film Studies at uni) and Sleepless in Seattle. |
| Favorite music | I have thousands of Songs on my computer and have no idea which are my favourites. It so much depends on my mood. But I love Bob Dylan, Al Green, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Beatles and especially John Lennon, Joan Armatrading and Judie Tzuke and I have an absolutely wonderful 12 minute version of Pachabel's Canon in D by David Lanz and Michael Jones, which I would recommend anyone to try and get hold of if possible. |
| Favorite books | Just read and really enjoyed Gulliver's Travels (now understanding that it is a fantastic political parody, which of course I didn't when I read it as a child but still loved it as a story), while in Laos for Tet break, Dickens's Bleak House (which I think has the most fantastic first paragraph of any book I have ever read) I suggest you read it and see whether it gets your attention. William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience is wonderful anti organised-religion poetry and still as relevant now as when he wrote it. |