Hello big, wide, cosy world and welcome to the last blog you’ll ever read. This blog is all about my, eventual, travels and potential development of an English language company.
With any luck, you will be able to follow my travels around the world and look on as I make a fool of my self, learning the ways of the world. If you keep an open mind, you too will be able to make all the same mistakes I will, but surely that’s half the fun. How do you learn without first making mistakes.
Thomas Edison supposedly said –
“I have not failed 700times to make a light bulb, I have found 700 ways how not to make a light bulb.”
Thomas Edison
Poetic but he has a point.”
Other’s follow the philosophy of Bismarck –
“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”
Otto von Bismarck
Well…
Make the same mistake twice. That’s half the fun.”
Russell
Reading is great, but why read it from a book or watch it on the tele when you can be in it, see the colours, smell the flowers, hear the music. History should remind you of the mistakes and successes we made along the way. How can we be wise without learning the wrong answers first.
No answer is wrong, just just used incorrectly. There is a difference between knowing the answer, and knowing how to use it.
Wow, I thought this was clever, off the top of my head.
I come from a small rural town where I have to drive everywhere of interest. But, I can walk 5 minutes and be in the middle of nowhere. A rather surreal idea that I never truly appreciated until I went to university and lived in a big city. I genuinely began to miss the green trees that I would wake up to every morning. It’s funny to me now thinking that I would whinge about going for walks in the woods as a child, it’s called being lazy.
My house mates had seen trees before, obviously, but never really experienced a truly rural lifestyle. The idea that shops aren’t just down the road, or a deer in your garden and a boar walking down the main road being is an everyday occurrence. I want to see what life is like in the rural areas of other countries. Cities are great, but the real life and culture is found in the small homes and towns where the locals live as they always have, only mildly affected by the progressing country at large.
I want to see all the wonderful places and meet all the fascinating people, starting with Asia and work my way west.
This all being the case with the removal of the international travel ban, once all is fixed of course.
I love to imagine what life would be like had I grown up in a different country. Is there a young man in rural Japan thinking ‘what is it like to live in rural England?’. These are the questions I want to answer.
I also have some rather lofty goals of trying to remove the barrier of culture and language around the world. As an ESL teacher I plan to start my own ESL school, curriculum(I didn’t use autocorrect for that I swear..) and application to make learning languages easier, starting with the only language I actually know, English. Making the world a smaller place means accepting everyone, despite there flaws, and improving ourselves. Moving the world forward so that we can all see hover cars before it ends. I believe combining each nation’s cultures can only improve each others, and make our lives far more interesting.
Every now and again I will be posting about interesting topics, things I think people should know more about or even answer questions that you ask. Please feel free.