Johnny (Harold John)

Información de viaje

Ahora estoy

Descripción

"To story is to be human...To listen 👂 is to love." Having lived in Asia 8 years (China, Malaysia, Bangladesh, India) and Latin America five months, I grew up on la frontera/border 20 km from Mexico. I'm a farmboy (LOTS of weeding and feeding the 🐖s) and am a contemplative kindred spirit, an easygoing lover of wonder, differences, stillness, the "ordinary" and lifelong learning--being challenged to grow out of my comfort zone and find the beauty of life and its parodoxes. I have volunteered eight, one-month times with the L'Arche Community (for those with intellectual disabilities) in Mymennsingh Bangladesh and more than a dozen times with monastic (or retreat) guest/volunteer work programs: organic mushroom farming, painting (a whole monastery basement); library cataloguing, data entry and organization; gardening, dishwashing, cleaning, weeding, kennel puppy rearing, harvesting, planting a long hedge. I have also volunteered at the off the grid, no plumbing White Rose CW Farm Missouri and the El Paso Annunciation House of hospitality for immigrant asylum applicants. By vocation, I taught and also served various immigrant and ethnic minority communities as a Detroit Michigan community organizer and fellow learner around cultural literacy, racial justice, and spiritual formation with the Navigators. I have been a refugee resettlement assistant and international student specialist as well as a Youth Conservation Corp member at the Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge and volunteer caregiver (being present to) those in an AIDS hospital wing (Sg Buloh, KL, Malaysia). Learned my bahasa Melayu y Indonesia languages via a three month village homestay where I later directed 7 IVCF summer cultural immersion homestays where American university students taught English in the village school. I also studied Malay in Kuala Lumpur for two years but the 3 mes/month village homestay was most essential. My putonghua Mandarin Chinese was 1000 words when I finished teaching my fourth year in China in 1999. "Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly."

Intereses

Música

Libros

Vegetariano o vegano

Sostenibilidad

Política / justicia social

Películas y televisión

Cultura

Trabajo de caridad

Escritura

Idiomas

Jardinería

Historia

Animales

Naturaleza

Senderismo

Idiomas

Idiomas hablados
Español: Intermedio
Indonesian: Intermedio
Malay: Intermedio
Chino (mandarín): Principiante

Más información sobre tus intereses idiomáticos
I've taught English for almost twenty years mostly to non native speakers including four years in China where I learned 1000 words in putonghua, zongwen, Mandarin hanyu

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Habilidades y conocimientos que quiero compartir o aprender

Me interesa:  

Proyectos de construcción y bricolaje

Mantenimiento general

Cocinar para toda la familia

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Ciertos conocimientos de:  

Jardinería

Compañía para ancianos

Vida en una granja

Proyectos ecológicos

Ayuda doméstica

Cuidado de animales

Hostelería/turismo

Cuidado de casas

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Puedo enseñar:  

Trabajo de caridad

Idiomas

Enseñanza

Que habilidades tienes?

teaching, mentoring, tutoring, listening, empathy, counseling, organizing, raising animals, gardening, (raised on a farm), weeding, cleaning, painting walls, spiritual formation, guitar

Edad

64

Algo más...

🎾, ping pong, racquetball, reading, forest bathing, hiking, tennis, other cultures

Más información

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  Fumador

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  Permiso de conducir

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  Alergia
  sulfa drugs in medications

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  Dieta especial
  vegetarian and humanely raised animal products (dairy, eggs)