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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?