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RE: 🌹 My Life as an Antiques Dealer 🌹
Very cool to see this part of your life, @princessmewmew Interesting objects in the photos, with some incredible histories, I bet!
I work as a language teacher and run a small company and a non-for-profit project on the side of my main job.
Wow, you must be busy !!
What non profit do you run? And are you teaching Swedish at your school?
It's a crowd-lending project to finance solar electricity installations in rural villages in East Africa. Lenders get their loans repaid to then eventually, once the project is complete and paid off. Then they can reinvest or withdraw their money. We work with www.kiva.org and www.jointrine.com Half of the funding comes from the profits of my own private company, Wake-Up Call.
Yes, I teach Swedish language to immigrants at the school where I work (it's a privately owned social enterprise, though, not a public school).
Haha, not very busy. I always make sure to have enough free time left to simply enjoy life. Like now, for example! ;)
Wow! That's amazing Oleg. I think people do not really know what it's like in Africa. The lack of water and electricity and other "basic" needs we take for granted in the western world.
How are your travels going?
It's going great so far, really enjoying discovering Osaka. It's a very hot day here today, so I'm taking the afternoon off, just napping under the A/C. :) Plan to go to a public bath in the evening – they're wonderful in Japan!
Ooh sounds lovely! I've always wanted to go to Japan! Enjoy!!