Hi, my name is Ota. Thanks for visiting my page and learning more about my teaching method.
I was born in Prague in 1978, lived in Australia and emigrated to Norway over ten years ago.
After failing to find the land Down Under interesting enough, I emigrated to Norway with (now ex) girlfriend from Malaysia. That was over 10 years ago.
I have been teaching English since 2002 in a very different way.
I have been in the ESL field since 2002 and have been teaching 95% of adult students until 2012 or so. By now I teach mainly children and English teachers.
Let me start with the dinosaurs. This is me, age one, scheduling a play date using the latest technology of the last century.
Later on, when I was six, I received my first real bicycle. My mum asked me why I looked a bit unhappy and I supposedly answered that I truly liked the bicycle but I kind of expected to receive a small bicycle trailer with it too. She asked me why, and I said it would be for my sleeping bag, tent, food and water, so I would be able to continue travelling without having to return home each night. Everyone agreed that there was a gypsy in the family. And they were right.
I love slow travelling. I am always interested in conversations with the locals, visiting museums of anthropology and humans rights (not many other museums, though). I travel and volunteer six months a year, every year.
My friends and contacts define me as very charismatic, but also extremely loud, outgoing, always ready to crack a joke, messy and always running slightly late yet organised and reliable. Supposedly, to some, I am also a boredom- and inefficiency-fighting educational „revolutionary.“ Not sure about that but I certainly do believe that mainstream education needs a major overhaul.
I love volunteering and travelling (over 75 countries so far, about 15 of them as a full-time volunteer – usually in the fields of disaster prevention, education, health, and disaster relief fields).
Since early 2000s I have been volunteering and travelling six months a year.