Today Justin, our Director from Quito, is coming into pay us a short visit. He has been doing this at the end of each session of English classes. Partly it is to show the flag in this small part of Ecuador, and partly to see how things are going.
Justin is a fun guy. He was born and raised in Iowa and wanted to be an actor. He studied acting in New York and London. He spent several years in London trying to break into Shakespearean Theater with minimal success. He ended up teaching English in Spain as a break to earn some money, and kept at it. He eventually ended up in Ecuador and then into the Director of English at EIL-Ecuador.
His career: Iowa-New York-London-Spain, has lead to an odd quirk which he calls his “Mid-Atlantic” accent… one part American Mid-West and one part cultured English with a strong sense of the stage about everything he says. It is about as non-neutral a neutral accent as you can get.