John_johnstonson

Im a 30-something Englishman, and I have been living in Taiwan for the last few years. I teach English on a tropical island where the temperature rarely dips below 15c in the depths of winter. John Steinbeck is my literary hero; he writes about the symbiosis of man and the earth beneath his feet. For me, the symbiosis is between the man and the seasons. I am a cyclothymic SAD-afflicted fuckup and had I stayed in England I would have thrown myself under a train some Febuary day. Now, my relationship is with searing heat, violent Pacific typhoons and rumbling quakes, and I am all the happier for it. And they say that running away from your problems is not the answer!