Here’s William Lane Craig: Read more »

Here’s Venomfangx on the matter:

Gotta be one of the funniest Friends scenes: Read more »

Another great hero and role model is Bill Craig. Check out his debates against the champions of atheism on youtube. Here’s an example Read more »

The best preachers I’ve heard, in no particular order are… Read more »

Here’s the band who will be forever my favourite. Thanks to my mate Fergus who introduced me to them many moons ago… Read more »

Here’s one of my all time great singers, second only to the great Paul Rodgers. A little bit tragic here too folks, as Lou got ill, lost his distinctive voice and as a result of his medical treatment is now almost unrecognisable as the handsome bono-look-a-like here, but listen to that voice!!! Read more »

Here’s the later version. Me and my friend Mike were spellbound by her beautiful smile.. Read more »

Today was a sad day for me as I learned of the death of Ofra Haza. Read more »

Eagle eyed readers will note that the tagline at the top of this blog has changed from “Tall TEFL Tales” to, in context, probably one of the funniest lines from Friends.

This signals a change of direction in the blog for a few posts. Reading through all the entries I notice there’s nothing very personal there except at the beginning. It’s all EFL related stuff. How will any readers get any insight then into the Life of Mike? As the young Braveheart was told by his uncle, that is something we’ll have to correct..

Ok, from now on I will upload a few favourite vids on personal heroes etc. This may help me to recapture the sense of wonder at the world which has until recently seemed lost forever…

Having written about kids hagwons in Korea, next up are adult only schools. I’m afraid I can’t recommend them. The biggest problem is the split shifts you have to work - as your students are only really available for study at the top and bottom end of the day, and that can often mean 630am starts! For more on split shifts, see my post entitled Day of the Dead… Read more »

To teach kids or not to. That is the question. Actually I taught kids in Japan about 10 years ago for Shane. More on them in another post. All I could remember was rolling around on a tatami mat up on the 4th floor of some nondescript grey building in Chiba prefecture, surrounded by plastic bananas and flash cards. Ah it’s all coming back. Read more »

It would be good to get a discussion going on this blog about split shifts. In my view they are the pits of the earth…. Read more »