Work Experience

Teacher of English                              A g u a du l c e , E S

I.E.S. Aguadulce: English on various topics at a Spanish highschool (2009 – 2010)

Aguadulce: private classes at people´s homes (2009 – 2010)

Education

University of Amsterdam                                   A m s t e r d a m, N L                                              

Master degree English Language and Literature (2007-2008)

Leiden University                                L e i d e n , N L

Bachelor degree in English Language and Literature (2002-2005)

VWO pre-university education                                               A p e l d o o r n , N L

Courses completed include: Dutch, English, German, Latin, History, Geography, Economics, Mathematics A (1994-2000)

Activities

Editorial Staff and Contributor                                      A m s t e r d a m / L e i d e n , N L

IJskast: poems, stories for the monthly of Amsterdam fraternity Particolarte (2000 - 2001 / 2003 – 2004)

Pyros:  poems, stories for monthly of Leiden fraternity Prometheus (2002 –2003)

Theater                                                         S l i g o / D u b l i n , I R  / L e i d e n , N L

Yeats Society Sligo: performed in Yeats’ At the Hawk’s Well (2006)

Leiden English Freshers Claudio in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (2003)

Foreign Languages

English

Knoxville, Tennessee (USA): lived there for two years (1984-6)

Taipei American School (Taiwan): attended Taipei American School for two years (1988-90)

Britisch Council (Amsterdam): IELTS-diploma (summer 2006)

German

Goethe Institute (Berlin): daily lessons in German speech and writing. Cultural excursions (September-October 2001)

Spanish

Don Quijote ( Madrid / Sevilla): daily lessons in Spanish, speech and writing. Cultural excursions (March-May 2002)

Spanish language school (Almeria): lessons in Spanish, speech and writing (August-September 2010)

Hobbies

Singing, guitar-playing, acting, hiking, running, travelling.  All literary ambitions belong to the past.