Johnny (Harold John)

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Ich bin gerade

Beschreibung

Two different wise sages said: "To story is to be human...To listen 👂 is to love." And Einstein said: "A person who lacks wonder or appreciation of mystery is as good as dead, for he has lost the eyes with which to see." — Having lived in Asia 8 years (teaching in China 4 yrs, studying in Malaysia, volunteering in Bangladesh, ashram-ing in India) and Latin America 6 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 an "old soul" kindred spirit, an easygoing lover of beauty, simplicity, justice, wonder, differences, stillness, the "ordinary", connection, compassion and lifelong learning--being challenged to grow out of my comfort zone and find the beauty of life and its glorious parodoxes. I have volunteered eight, one-month times with the L'Arche Community (for those with severe 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, lathing, weeding, kennel puppy rearing, harvesting, planting a very long hedge. I have also volunteered at the off the grid, no plumbing White Rose CW Farm La Plata, Missouri and two months at 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. I have been a refugee resettlement assistant, an international student specialist, an IVCF campus chaplain as well as a Youth Conservation Corp member at the Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge and a volunteer caregiver (being present to) those in an AIDS hospital wing (Sg Buloh, KL, Malaysia). Learned my bahasa Melayu y Indonesia languages initially via a three month village homestay where I later directed 7 IVCF summer cultural immersion homestays where American university students taught English in the one 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 English my fourth year in China in 1999. "Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly." Malachi. "People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used."
Dalai Lama XIV

Interessengebiete

Musik

Bücher

Vegetarier / Veganer

Nachhaltigkeit

Politik & Soziales

Film & Fernsehen

Kultur

Karitative Arbeiten

Schreiben

Sprachen

Gartenarbeiten

Geschichte

Tiere

Natur

Wandern

Sprachen

Gesprochene Sprachen
Spanisch: Gute Kenntnisse
Indonesian: Gute Kenntnisse
Malay: Gute Kenntnisse
Chinesisch (Mandarin): Grundkenntnisse

Mehr Infos zu meinen Sprachinteressen
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

Einen Sprachpartner finden

Bereiche, die mich interessieren oder in denen ich anderen etwas beibringen kann

Interessiert mich:  

Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten

Handwerkliche Arbeiten

Zubereiten / Kochen von Mahlzeiten für die Familie

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Bereits etwas Erfahrung vorhanden  

Gartenarbeiten

Seniorenbetreuung

Mithilfe auf einem Bauernhof

Ökoprojekte

Hausarbeiten

Betreuung von Tieren

Tourismus / Gastgewerbe

House sitting

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In der Lage, anderen etwas beizubringen:  

Karitative Arbeit

Sprachen

Unterrichten

Was könntest du arbeiten?

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

Alter

64

Was noch ...

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

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  Allergien
  sulfa drugs in medications

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  Spezielle Ernährung
  vegetarian and humanely raised animal products (dairy, eggs)