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| The first night in Yokohama, Japan, on my way out to an 'izakaya', a pub. | | Yokohama is a beautiful port city! | | Shrine entrance to temple in Kamakura, near Yokohama Japan. |
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Mmm...sushi and sake in Tokyo, Japan! | | 333m above in the Tokyo Tower, the younger and slightly taller sister to the Eiffel Tower in France. | | Me with my guide Kyoko and our Teppanyaki lunch - cooked on lava rock from Mt. Fuji! |
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| At famous Ryoanji Temple and Zen Rock Garden in Kyoto, Japan, June 2008. | | Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto, Japan. | | Ric at the Golden Temple, in Kyoto, and yes, it is made of gold! |
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Employees at OTO, with me in the middle. Note the differences in body language...(Feb 8 '08)
| | OTO is part of the Russian company Worldmark Corp. which hired me for executive communication training in Moscow.
| | Afternoon class of WorldMark employees. (March 4 '08) |
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| Vladimir, H.R. Manager, enjoying "Business Casual Fridays" - just one of the concepts discussed in our 6-week training course. | | Moscow is certainly one of the most beautiful cities in the world! | | A big thank-you to our office manager and my personal assistant, Julia. |
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| Me with Nadia Baboo, Image Consultant, after our workshop "Communicate Your Confidence: Inside & Out" on Nov 10th 2007 | | Ric with Ross McBride,
business coach and ESL/business English trainer. | | I am the Former Academic Coordinator and Head Teacher at Business English School of Toronto, 2002-06. |
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| Presenting "Effective Communication Skills for the Canadian Office" for the PPF - Pakistani Profesionals Forum. | | same. | | My PPF group - Accent Reduction - 2005. |
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| 2002 - Giving a seminar at Herzing College of how to choose a correct language tutor, and what questions to ask, for English students and immigrants. | | 1998-2000 I taught English at Tongren Teacher's College in Guizhou, China.
I also continued studying martial arts, one of my life's passions. | | Myself in Hong Kong in I think 1999 or maybe early 2000. I went through HK 6 times, and was lucky to have friends there to show me around. You can smell the money all around you - I love it! (ha ha). |
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