ManinVietnam
- Age: 49
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Virgo
- Zodiac Year: Rat
- Industry: Education
- Occupation: ESOL Teacher
- Location: Ho Chi Minh : Wolverhampton : Vietnam
About Me
Read my first blog for an introduction to me. I am a 48 yr old ESOL teacher in HCM, Vietnam who graduated in English/TESOL in 2005 from Wolverhampton uni. 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. Now I live in a shared house in HCM.
Interests
- music
- teaching
- reading
- Shakespeare
- Dickens
- Blake
- movies
- computers
- Internet
- shopping
- people
- bia hoi
- bun cha
- travel
- good 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.
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