Johnny (Harold John)

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Ich bin gerade

Beschreibung

"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."

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

Etwas mehr Information

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  Führerschein

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  Allergien
  sulfa drugs in medications

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