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Let meet a little more about Milton, one of the teachers
What is your original profession? How did you discover the language school?
I studied art and dramaturgy at the university, I have a theatre licence. I knew Camilo since I was twelve. I heard about his and Daniel’s school a long time ago, I followed the process since the beginning but I started to teach here just now.
What motivates you to teach here? How long have you been teaching here?
When a foreigner hears about Colombia the first things which comes to the mind are parties, dates and drugs. Our culture is more than that, I want to educate our history, our art. I want to communicate our thinking method and I believe this language school is a great place for it. Also it’s a great opportunity for me to learn English, I’d like to improve it. Camilo offered me a job this year, I accepted it and I started to teach here in May.
What have you learned from the students?
I opened my mind to new cultures, I learned a lot about different mindset from our students and this is important for me because I feel the borders between the countries are not that strict as it looks like.
Is there any difference teaching students from different countries?
I think our culture and logic are in our language as well, how does it sound, the words we use and expressions. If we understand the culture we can understand the language better. When I started to teach here it was really interesting that I couldn’t make difference between English accents, but step by step I realised the diversity of the accents and it’s beautiful.
Do you have other work?
I work in a theatre. I’m an actor and I sing in different plays. I run a company in Medellín, Teatro el hombre is the name. I go there every weekend. I write theatre plays and script for new shows.
What does your daily schedule look like?
My day always start with a coffee, meanwhile I check the news at Twitter. Then I go to the school, I do classes or I work on my computer. When I go home I work on my book, sometimes I watch a film or I read a book, usually I fall asleep by reading a book.
What do you do in your free time?
I like sculpting and at my theatre I love to create masks, I have a studio for making them. Also I love to see other theatre plays. Besides theatre and art, I’d like to improve my English so I started to study at the language school.
What’s your plan for your future? How do you imagine your life?
I want to live in a small house with my future dog, named Sauron. And my biggest dream is to be a novelist. I write a novel and one day I would like to publish it, the genre is sci-fi-fantasy. I’m searching for the image of the future, how it can be described by a South American point of view. The sci-if world stories are told only by North American’s and Europeans where the technologies are advanced. South American’s don’t have much technological inventions but for example we mined minerals which is used for microchips, we have sources to use and we think about the future in a different way. This is the beauty of different cultures.