BLOG POST 1 A SHORT AUTOBIOGRAPHY

 Hi, my name is Eric Hamilton. I was born on February 8, 1966 in Los Angeles, California. I lived there for a short time, and eventually moved to San Diego, California--a city on the Mexican border. Growing up in the late 60s and early 70s, I can remember the landing on the moon, lots of hippies, and bell bottom pants...However, I was too young to participate.

As a child and teen, I went to school, rode a skateboard, played the cello for two years, learned to type, ran track and field, and did some other stuff--
I graduated from high school from a school called Holy Angels...with that name you can probably imagine the type of school it was. There were old nuns wandering around in the halls.
My mom was from Germany, so I spent a lot of time with my grandparents there, who partly raised me. As a consequence, I spoke better German than English until I was about 6 years old. Kids used to say I had an accent when I spoke English. Don't worry, now my accent sounds very American, I think.
Eventually, I went to university and got a degree in International Relations with a focus on Central European Area Studies: a sort of combination of Economics, Political Science, History, Geography, and Language. I speak Polish fluently besides German and English (and Spanish), and have a working knowledge of Russian and Italian. With such a language focus, it was logical for me to get a master's degree in Linguistics, which I did in 1992. Since then, I've been an ESL teacher, and am very happy with my career choice! Somehow, at some point in time, I woke up in Santiago, Chile...

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  1. Tris.Roman20 de abril de 2021 a las 12:55

    I find it very interesting that it has several roots, American and German. And get to know various cultures.

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  2. Ailin Vidal20 de abril de 2021 a las 19:09

    Teacher! How entertaining your life! you have been in different countries, how good. It seems to me very interesting what you studied, besides you speak many languages, how entertaining.

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  3. Orfe Maturana21 de abril de 2021 a las 0:31

    woo how interesting, what would have landed in chile?

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  4. Valentina González21 de abril de 2021 a las 9:22

    His life is very interesting! What does Chile mean to you?

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  5. Cata Vásquez21 de abril de 2021 a las 9:49

    Teacher! your life seems really interesting, you know many places and speak many languages, I find it great and fun.
    I find it very interesting to be able to speak so many languages. What language do you think of?

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  6. barbaradonbear21 de abril de 2021 a las 20:55

    Wow teacher, it’s really great that you can speak in so many languages.

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  7. barbaradonbear21 de abril de 2021 a las 20:55

    Wow teacher, it’s really great that you can speak in so many languages.

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  8. Matías Aguillón22 de abril de 2021 a las 19:28

    You have a lot of studies, its amazing. I was about of study international relations like you, but i seemed social work more interesting

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  9. Camila23 de abril de 2021 a las 15:09

    You worked -and working- very hard learning lots of languages!! do you remember if it was difficult when you was a child? how do you do to keep learning new languages? i'd like to do that. Actually i'm trying to learn korean by myself. Please bring us some tips.
    By the way, when you used to lived in USA, knew you what happened in chile in 1973? what did you think about it?

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  10. Coni Osorio2 de mayo de 2021 a las 23:05

    Teacher! I find it very cool that you have lived in so many cities and know more countries than the one of origin.

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  11. Emilia Gutiérrez9 de abril de 2022 a las 8:17

    Super interesting your blog teacher!! It is very cool that he has notion of several languages.

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  12. Cristobal Cornejo9 de abril de 2022 a las 13:08

    I would like to know what happened so that it ended up in Chile xD

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  13. Camila Rodríguez9 de abril de 2022 a las 15:39

    This is so interesting! And you can speak so many languages, that's great!

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  14. Martina Delgado9 de abril de 2022 a las 17:12

    cool history teacher, I would like to know more <333

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  15. Diego Castillo7 de abril de 2023 a las 3:26

    His autobiography is interesting.

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  16. Javiera Ortega7 de abril de 2023 a las 14:12

    Do you remember how to play cello?

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  17. Catalina Barraza P8 de abril de 2023 a las 16:20

    So many lenguage, and i can only with one

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