Writer, EFL teacher, trainer, and translator, I was born in Tanzania, have lived in a dozen countries over three continents, and describe myself as an ‘expatriate sin patria’. Wherever I go I make it my business to learn the language, get to know the local people and customs, and discover the country’s remotest corners. I became interested in writing in mid-2006, did a short Open University creative writing course and a Writers’ Bureau course, and began getting articles published in 2007.

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Visualise this. Imagine you were retiring and wanted to settle in a faraway country.

Imagine some kind soul set up a conference for you so you could go to that country and learn all about it.

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Well, I've done it - I have paid the hefty fee to sit my Cervantes Institute Spanish exam on 10 November! I'm studying hard (isn't a gap year all about learning new things?)

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