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Sebastian Cresswell-Turner

From:     Dave Death
Category: Art
Date:     21 July 2006
Time:     12:56 PM

Review:


My new favourite journalist is Sebastian Cresswell-Turner.  He sounds immensely posh, having been through Eton and 
Oxford, but something must have gone wrong because he ekes out a living as a TEFL teacher in Rome:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/main.jhtml?xml=/education/2004/01/17/teftefl17.xml

As he puts it, "teaching English is fine if you want to spend a year abroad, and great for meeting pretty foreign girls, 
considered as a career that might offer some degree of professional fulfilment, it fails on every count. No one with a scrap 
of ambition can possibly consider it. As the philosopher Alain de Botton says: "You become a TEFL teacher when your life 
has gone wrong.""

I was glad to read his article, because I'd thought to try TEFL myself, both for the pretty girls and the chance to amongst my 
friends in the south of Italy.  Glad to be shaken out of my fanciful dreams.  I would end up like the lazy Scot mentioned in the 
article.

Meanwhile we find two years later, things have got worse for Cresswell-Turner, and he now finds himself in a doss-house 
filled with Poles:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/04/25/ftpoles25.xml

Good for him that he managed to get an article out of it.  The Telegraph loves Etonians and he must have friends there.  

I wonder if he has a book in him.  He could be a some-time George Orwell, perhaps?


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