【师资力量】Teacher Dan

   My name is Daniel, but I prefer it when others call me Dan. I am a full time teacher at NDI.
Aside from work I would consider myself to be “otaku” which is Japanese for “house boy” or “somebody who often stays at home”, in English we often say “loser” or “geek”.
I live with my younger brother and my three beautiful kittens. When I am not teaching, you can often find me in the pub having a beer, watching the football on TV, chatting to my friends and talking about the days as they pass on by. 
  I have been working for the company for almost four years now.
 Working at NDI has been a huge honour and pleasure for me .Over the past years I have accumulated a whole bunch of interesting students and moments.
     I can recall in one class, the topic was ‘dancing’, where I was listing several different types of dance upon the white board: hip-hop,Latin, salsa, break-dancing. As soon as I wrote “break-dancing” a student stood up in my class and started to dance!     
     It was an absolutely amazing experience and I greatly respected his courage to just get up and show the class what he could do. He then offered to teach me some really basic break-dancing moves, but I was a little scared that I would get my suit dirty.Besides,I would probably break my back! Maybe next time!
Well, take care guys, I truly hope I have the pleasure one day, to meet you all. If you ever see me about, please feel free to chat with me, it will make me more than happy.
   I have learnt many a thing whilst living in China and I have also brought with me a various amount of skills that I can apply to my teaching job. For example, my main strength that I developed from studying Drama at university is my ability to improvise, or to think and say something immediately without having to prepare, plan or think. This has proven to be particularly useful as an English teacher as students often have questions and information that I have not prepared for.
In addition to all of this, I often try my best to do exercises during class that help to improve a student’s ability to improvise, whether it be for English or their daily life; its great fun and an extremely useful skill to have.