As a child, England was all I knew. It was all my family knew. And then, one day, everything changed. My parents told me we were moving to the Philippines. I was seven at the time. I didn’t even know where Denmark was, much less the Philippines. One 20-hour flight later, we found ourselves in […]
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Be the same… That’s all I wanted to be, just like everyone else when I was growing up in the Philippines. We may have spoken the same language, but I spoke British English and they all spoke American English. I wanted to fit in, but I stuck out like a sore thumb. I was skinny
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Weird…but good. That’s how I felt when over the holidays I basically unplugged myself for 10 days. I barely touched the computer and wrote a total of one email while I was away. Occasionally I checked FB, but for the better part of 10 days I was pretty much disconnected. That’s part of the joy
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Life’s unpredictable. That’s what I’ve learned about life in my 38 years on this planet. Just when you think you’ve got it all worked out, life throws you a curve ball. On a more personal level, my life has turned out to be one big rollercoaster ride. It started out pretty pedestrian. Born in a
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“Daddy, you’ve gotta give me a massage…” That’s what my 4-year-old son said to me just a few hours ago. Like he needs it. His body recuperates at lightning speed. My wife and I are the ones who feel it after our Karate lesson on Saturday mornings. My back paid the price last time and
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Who doesn’t love Sundays? I know I sure do…it’s the lazy day of the week. It’s the day when we get to do what we want to do. Sleep, eat, watch TV, relax, swim, anything and everything…that is until you have kids. Now Sundays are no longer our day but the family day as it’s
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Ever wonder what you were meant to do? I know I did. As a child all I could think of was going to the US for university. My mother being British, she wasn’t too excited about the prospect of me heading off to the States. In fact, that’s an understatement. For years she simply refused
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I do. Two simple words. And with those two words our life begins anew. While I understand that marriages don’t always work out, I believe in the “till death do us part.” We’ve all heard the statistics, 50% of marriages end in divorce. And international marriages, like mine, have even worse odds of success. Marriage
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Something must be wrong. According to my passport I’m 37. That means that I’ve been an educator in one form or another for over 21 years. Wow. How did I get into teaching? By accident really. Back in high school, I needed some extracurricular credit in order to graduate, so rather than be a camp
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History, for many people, isn’t a fun subject. We were bored to tears with names of kings and presidents that ruled the land hundreds and thousands of years ago. For many of us, it’s sheer torture. However, I learnt that history can be one of the most enlightening subjects we will ever take. Assuming you
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