Johnny (Harold John)

Information de voyage

Actuellement, je suis

Description

"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."

Centres d’intérêt

Musique

Livres

Végétarien ou végan

Dev. durable

Politique/justice sociale

Films et télé

Culture

Bénévolat

Écriture

Langues

Jardinage

Histoire

Animaux

Nature

Randonnée

Langues

Langues parlées
Espagnol: Intermédiaire
Indonesian: Intermédiaire
Malay: Intermédiaire
Chinois (mandarin): Débutant

Plus de détails sur les langues qui m'intéressent
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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Compétences et connaissances que j'aimerais partager ou apprendre

Ça m'intéresse :  

Bricolage et projets de construction

Entretien général

Préparer les repas / cuisiner pour la famille

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J'ai des connaissances :  

Jardinage

Tenir compagnie à une pers. âgée

Aider dans une ferme

Éco-projets

Aider à la maison

S’occuper des animaux

Accueil / tourisme

Home sitting

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Je peux apprendre aux autres :  

Travail associatif

Langues

Enseignement

Quelles sont vos compétences ?

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

Âge

64

Autres infos...

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

Informations complémentaires

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  Fumeur

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  Permis de conduire

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  Allergies
  sulfa drugs in medications

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  Régime alimentaire spécial
  vegetarian and humanely raised animal products (dairy, eggs)