Johnny (Harold John)

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Eu estou

Descrição

"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."

Interesses

Música

Livros

Vegetariano/vegano

Sustentabilidade

Política/justiça social

Filmes e TV

Cultura

Trabalho beneficente

Escrever

Idiomas

Jardinagem

História

Animais

Naturaleza

Caminhada

Idiomas

Idiomas
Espanhol: Intermediário
Indonesian: Intermediário
Malay: Intermediário
Chinês (mandarim): Iniciante

Mais detalhes sobre meu interesse em idiomas
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 e conhecimento para compartilhar ou aprender

Tenho interesse em:  

Projetos de construção/faça você mesmo

Manutenção geral

Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras

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Conhecimento de:  

Jardinagem

Fazer companhia para idosos

Vida na fazenda

Projetos ambientais

Ajuda a cuidar da casa

Cuidar de animais

Hotelaria/turismo

House sitting

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Trabalho beneficente

Idiomas

Ensino

Quais são suas habilidades?

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

Idade

64

Algo mais...

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

Mais algumas informações

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  Fumante

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  Carteira de motorista

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  Alergias
  sulfa drugs in medications

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  Dietas especiais
  vegetarian and humanely raised animal products (dairy, eggs)