Perhaps a little later than planned
Well, after just over two weeks of starting my own blog, I finally have time to write a bit more.
This may be more helpful to those who don't know me, or those I have not been in touch with for quite a while.
I am a Baha'i living in Oxfordshire, England, where I have lived for many years now. I have also lived in Brighton and Aberdeen during my childhood and Bakersfield (no jokes please!), California, while in my teens.
I am married to a wonderful person who goes by the name of Diana and is from Bulgaria. I met her in the summer of 1997 while taking part in a Baha'i project in Bulgaria with 4 good friends Jalil Afnan, Ramin Farzanafar, James Herbert and Babak Javid, and we married in September 1999. Over the years, despite personal tests and setbacks in our lives, we have grown closer and closer together and it gives me tremendous pride to call her my wife and one of the greatest friends anyone could ever ask for.
Over the past few years I have been working in the EFL (English as a Foreign Language) industry, first as a teacher, which then gradually evolved into more administrative and management roles. About 18 months ago I started my own language school (Wayfarer School of English). I am currently in the process of securing the finances needed to aquire premises and expand the school to a level where it can compete more effectively with other schools and recruit longer term adult students.
Whilst in the process of expansion, I have another job which is really just to pay the bills, and sometimes balancing the two can be a bit challenging. What can be equally testing is when things progress slower than I would like with the school, but I know this is all part and parcel of starting a new business and I have to be patient. I have taken some big steps over the past year and made some really great contacts and hope these will now pay off over the coming year.
Diana and I both enjoy travelling and have just returned from a one week break in Spain visiting an old friend of Diana's from Bulgaria. We got back last night and I will write about this trip soon. Needless to say, it was great to be away and I had not been this relaxed in over six months.
This may be more helpful to those who don't know me, or those I have not been in touch with for quite a while.
I am a Baha'i living in Oxfordshire, England, where I have lived for many years now. I have also lived in Brighton and Aberdeen during my childhood and Bakersfield (no jokes please!), California, while in my teens.
I am married to a wonderful person who goes by the name of Diana and is from Bulgaria. I met her in the summer of 1997 while taking part in a Baha'i project in Bulgaria with 4 good friends Jalil Afnan, Ramin Farzanafar, James Herbert and Babak Javid, and we married in September 1999. Over the years, despite personal tests and setbacks in our lives, we have grown closer and closer together and it gives me tremendous pride to call her my wife and one of the greatest friends anyone could ever ask for.
Over the past few years I have been working in the EFL (English as a Foreign Language) industry, first as a teacher, which then gradually evolved into more administrative and management roles. About 18 months ago I started my own language school (Wayfarer School of English). I am currently in the process of securing the finances needed to aquire premises and expand the school to a level where it can compete more effectively with other schools and recruit longer term adult students.
Whilst in the process of expansion, I have another job which is really just to pay the bills, and sometimes balancing the two can be a bit challenging. What can be equally testing is when things progress slower than I would like with the school, but I know this is all part and parcel of starting a new business and I have to be patient. I have taken some big steps over the past year and made some really great contacts and hope these will now pay off over the coming year.
Diana and I both enjoy travelling and have just returned from a one week break in Spain visiting an old friend of Diana's from Bulgaria. We got back last night and I will write about this trip soon. Needless to say, it was great to be away and I had not been this relaxed in over six months.
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