Here’s William Lane Craig:

Here’s Venomfangx on the matter:

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

The best preachers I’ve heard, in no particular order are

Colin Dye

Derick Bingham

Sam Workman

Ravi Zacharias

Charles Price

James McConnell

Check out the great Colin Dye here! Praise God!!

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

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!!!

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

Today was a sad day for me as I learned of the death of Ofra Haza. She died 8 years ago and I never knew it! Just goes to show something…Apparently she got infected with HIV by the husband she married, but to me she will always be an angel. Check her out on you tube with her famous hit single Im nin alu, both the cute 1978 version here where she looks so happy, and the later fusion smash hit single which I saw once only in my friend Keysey’s house (next post). Her pretty face will never be forgotten. Bye angel!

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 »