Just a brief insight into who I am, where I come from, and why I'm teaching.  Of course, you can find out lot more by following my blog.  This picture was taken at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.  I am an art lover, in particular the periods of Impressionism, Expressionism and the later Pop Art of Roy Lichtenstein.  I have visited Amsterdam on various occasions and always like to partake in the culture.

I obtained my Trinity TESOL Certificate at Sheffield Hallam University in the summer of 2006.  No sooner had I completed the intensive month of face-2-face lectures and practice teaching than I was off to Greece.  I was terrified, not only was this a daunting prospect in the first place, but I'd missed the Trinity lecture on teaching children.  But, despite that, I spent a wonderful first year in Pyrgos teaching 6 classes of children of varying ages and standards.    Onward and upward!  Four years in Zhuhai, China I think I have finally found something that is worthwhile, and to top it all off, "I quite like this teaching lark," I thought to myself.

From the age of ten I have been blessed with seeing foreign countries as part of the 'family holiday'.  Each and every time, be it in France, Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy (wherever) I have always left with regret, dreaming of someday returning and maybe staying.  That was my motivation for choosing my first location during my brief ESL career, Greece.  "A country a year," I dreamed to myself, funny how things never turn out as expected.  My second location was Zhuhai - I stayed for three years.