Hello.
I’m interested in, helping people learn languages.
Especially English, because I grew up in countries where English is not the major language.
In particular I spent twelve years in Indonesia.
And I went to school there, from when I was six to when I finished school.
And I got to watch, some of the things which happened in Indonesia during that time.
Like the economic development of Indonesia was something.
When I first arrived there I remember there were no trees in the capital city Jakarta.
And the traffic was horrific.
But after a while they managed to actually have the money to sort some of these problems out.
When I finally left Jakarta, the area in which I lived called Menteng was really pretty.
With lots of tress and especially bougainvillaea.
But that was also where President Suharto lived.
He lived in the same area just two or three streets away from me.
I remember one new years we had tanks patrolling down our street, and when things got a bit tense.
And then I left Indonesia when I turned eighteen and finished school.
And went back to London, to study at the school of Oriental and African studies.
And within a few weeks of my leaving Indonesia, everything went pear shaped.
And the currency crashed and separatism in the provinces started happening.
And I’m just now planning my first return to Indonesia since there’s a friend of mine runs an East Timor action group in Glasgow.
And we’re going to go and monitor the elections on August the eighth.
So my first trip back to Indonesia, may well see Indonesia disintegrating.