Wednesday, October 13

Let's all give a warm welcome to Luis Vieira

Good morning everyone.

It gives me great pleasure to introduce you all to Luis. He will be joining my secretary and I as the newest member of the EZ English Team. During his time here, he will be helping out with the teaching. I will explain more later about how I met Luis and stuff like that. But for now, please read Luis's self-introduction for yourselves. I am sure all of you will enjoy studying with him!


Hello! My name is Luis Vieira and I am 30 years old, born on 21st of August 1980. I was born and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri in the USA. Once I finished high-school I moved to Portugal (my parents home country), where I got my degree in Economics at Univ. Coimbra (one of the oldest universities in the world). Just before graduating I started working at Volkswagen in Lisbon, Portugal. About 2 years later (2007) I decided to get a Masters in Finance so I moved to England.Immediately after (2008) I moved again, this time Paris in France and I started working at BNP Paribas in investment banking.Last November I quit my "dream job", left my family and most of my friends in Europe, and moved to Osaka following my heart! I am now engaged and will get married this next November 11 to my 'princess' Sachiko.Over the last year in Japan I taught English to both children and adults for over 6 months. In July I decided to learn Japanese at a school full-time, and now I would like to teach again in the evenings.As a person, I am optimistic, open-minded and easy-going.I have a passion about travelling. I have lived in America, Portugal, England, New Zealand, France and Japan, where I expect to settle down. In total I have been to 27 countries and visited over 300 cities.Besides English and Portuguese native language skills, I am fluent in French and Spanish. I also have basic knowledge of Italian and Japanese.In my free time I often do sports (volleyball, cycling, running) or hang out with friends. I also enjoy watching movies and listening to music.Now that you know me better, I hope to see you soon at EZ English so we can improve your English quickly while having fun at the same time :)
Below is Luis in New Tork, Times Square. And under that is a more formal photo of him in his bets suit.



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