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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Remember the photo comp I won? (Thanks again to anyone who voted!) Well, my winning photo, another of mine, and twenty-five more were chosen on the basis of votes and the jury's opinion to be in an exhibition which is going round the world (to wherever anyone can organise it!)

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Well, there is a huge difference between the Monday group and the Wednesday group - this really WAS a promotion! There were eight of us: I felt a little uneasy when I arrived as everyone else knew each other and communicated mostly in Arabic

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