35 Facts About Me | Teacher Tom

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Eat Sleep Dreamers welcome back to another lesson with me Tom. Actually today isn't really
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a lesson because it's a special day today. It's my birthday. Ok.
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Because it's my birthday I wanted to do something slightly different. I'm going to tell you
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thirty five facts about me. So I wanted to do this video because I wanted to share a
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little bit more about me and to help you guys get to know me better. So what I'm hoping
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is that we are going to get to know each other better because in the comments below I want
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you to tell me which facts are also true for you. Now why is it thirty five facts? Well,
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it's a really simple reason. Today it's my thirty fifth birthday. Alright, that was fact
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number one. There it is, we've started. Ok, here we go. So fact number it's my thirty
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fifth birthday today. Wow! It's ok, it's fine. I'm ok with that. Alright fact number two.
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I was born in London, I am a Londoner. However the hospital that I was born in was bulldozed,
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it was destroyed a week after I was born. That's right! I think I was like the last
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baby to be born in that hospital and then it was gone. And it's not there anymore. I
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am six foot tall, which is a perfectly good height. I quite like being six foot. I've
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always been six foot. Not always obviously, when I was a child I wasn't six foot. But
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six foot works for me yeah. After university I worked for the BBC. That's right. The British
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Broadcasting Corporation. I worked on a TV show called What Not To Wear. It was like
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a fashion show and I was the runner. So I was doing all the little things like driving
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the presenters to the studio or getting them their food or holding the sound boom. I kind
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of did everything. I enjoyed it but I decided that TV wasn't really my thing and so I became
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a teacher. I've been a teacher for ten years. So I started in 2007 and my inspiration was
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my Mum. She was a teacher and was a fantastic teacher and I kind of, I got in to teaching
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through her. I actually have done a vlog all about why I became a teacher so you can watch
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that if you want. My teaching has taken me to three countries so i lived in Spain for
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one year. I lived in San Sebastian in the north. I then moved to Argentina. I lived
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in Buenos Aires for one year. So between them I've picked up a little bit of Spanish. 'Hola
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me llamo Tom. Tengo treinte y cinco anos. So I think that means 'my name is Tom and
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I'm thirty five years old.' As you can see, it's not great but I picked up some. So I
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also lived in Hong Kong and i taught at the British Council for three and a half years.
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Absolutely loved it. I loved all the countries that i lived in. Hong Kong was particularly
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special for me I just really connected with the city. And yes I can speak a little bit
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of Cantonese. Here we go (Cantonese) Which I think means where is the swimming pool.
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Really useful if you need to know where the swimming pool is. Otherwise totally useless.
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In fact I learned a lot of Cantonese from my students. So i used to teach little kids.
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Kindergarten kids and i'd hear them. I'd create an activity where they had to run around the
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room and they'd run around and they'd be like 'fai de la' and I'd be like 'what does that
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mean?' and it means like hurry up so yeah I learned a lot of my language, a lot of my
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Cantonese from my little kids. Alright a secret skill that I have is that i can touch my nose
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with my tongue. You want to see it? Alright. Get ready! That's pretty useful, right? The
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only problem is i get a wet nose straight after. Eat Sleep Dream was originally a podcast.
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A podcast is a radio programme that you can listen to at any time. You can get it on iTunes
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and various other places. And so I started Eat Sleep Dream English in 2012. It was a
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podcast of me walking around various famous places in London trying to describe them and
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as I described them people could download worksheets with the important vocabulary.
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It was pretty good. I quite liked it. I had to stop it because I moved to Hong Kong so
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it came to an organic end but it was the beginning of what now is Eat Sleep Dream English. I
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don't do the podcast any more, in fact I only did about twelve or thirteen but I really
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enjoyed it and it gave me the experience to then start this YouTube channel. I started
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learning to play the guitar when I was fourteen years old. My dad taught me which was fantastic,
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really cool. There was a guitar in our house and used to pick it up and be very frustrated
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with it because I didn't know what to do and one day I just asked my dad. I said can you
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teach me? And he did. He's a great guitar player, plays lots of like folk music, really
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nice stuff so yeah he kind of taught me and we've sort of played together which was fantastic.
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Alright my biggest fear, I think my biggest fear is sharks! So when I was about five I
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went to Universal Studios in Los Angeles. There was a ride there with Jaws from the
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movie Jaws. You are in this tram and this shark just comes up and attacks you and I
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was really scared. Then that evening, that evening me and my sister are in the hotel
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swimming pool, we are swimming around and she says to me 'oh my god! Jaws! Jaws!' I'm
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five years old I start panicking. I'm like 'oh no!' I get out of the pool as quickly
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as I can and she's laughing, she's like 'ah I got you, I tricked you!' And ever since
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then I've had this fear of sharks. So it's thanks to my sister for that one. So yeah
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so even when I go into swimming pools now I'll check to see if there are any sharks
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in there. If I'm in the sea, yeah I'm always thinking about sharks so it's not enough to
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stop me going in and swimming because I love swimming, I love surfing but it's always on
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my mind. Yeah! Does anyone else have a fear of sharks? Let me know.
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Ever since I've started doing Eat Sleep Dream English there's one famous person that you
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all think I look like. Harry Potter. I've never heard that before, no one has ever told
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me that i look like Harry Potter but allegedly you guys think I look like Harry Potter. Which
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makes me think that I should do an English lesson dressed as Harry Potter. If you want
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to see that video you let me know in the comments below. I write a journal every single day.
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I've written one for the last eight years. I started when I went on holiday to Thailand.
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I wanted to remember the holiday, I wanted to remember every single day so I started
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writing my journal and I've just carried on ever since. And I love it because what I'll
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do is I'll go back to the year before andI'll have a look at what I was doing this day last
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year and it's great. My memory isn't fantastic so for me it's a great way to remember what
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I've done in my life. Alright, every day I have the same breakfast. Yeah it's a bit funny,
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I don't know why but I like routine, maybe I like waking up and knowing exactly what
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I'm going to have. And what I have is the most delicious thing for me. So I have a boiled
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egg, I'll have two slices of toast one with jam and one with peanut butter. I'll have
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some spinach, I'll have avocado, a bit of grated cheese and a cup of coffee. Well I
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say a cup of coffee, it's a bowl of coffee. I'll always have coffee in a bowl. Why? Well
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when I was young I was told that that's what French people did and I thought that sounded
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really cool so I've continued doing that ever since. It tastes better maybe that's the thing.
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It tastes better when you drink it out of a bowl. Try it! Don't laugh until you try
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it and then yeah then you can laugh. I love making top five lists. I don't know why but
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for example top five trees. What are your favourite trees? I have a top five list of
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my favourite trees. What about places you want to visit? I have a list of the top five
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places that I want to visit right now. The top five cities or countries. I guess I think
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it makes for an interesting conversation. You can debate with somebody. What's your
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favourite? Why is it your favourite? Yeah I find it interesting.
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I support Tottenham Hotspur. Now the reason I support Tottenham. Well there are many reasons.
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They are my local team so i grew up in North London and they are from North London. Also
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my great grandfather was one of the original founding members of Tottenham Hotspur. It
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was founded by a group of school boys and he was one of them so I kind of has to support
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Tottenham. It's in the family. Also they are the best so that's an easy one. Oh and Harry
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Kane, that one.
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I have many favourite films but the number one favourite film I think it would have to
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be Home Alone. I mean it's super funny like I've never laughed as much as when I first
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saw that film I was rolling on the floor absolutely in stitches. You are not going to believe
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this one but it is true. I once had a tooth in my head for six months. It's true honestly!
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It is true. So it was somebody else's tooth, I was playing football with my friend Ben
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and we had an accident and our heads collided and his front tooth went into my head. And
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it was really painful but I didn't realise that it had gone in there and then six months
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later I was kind of watching TV I was sort of scratching my head and I was like that
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feels strange and so I went to the doctor and he went pop and it was my friend's tooth.
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Really! The real tooth. I couldn't believe it. So I put it on a piece of string and then
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made it a necklace out of it. Actually that bit isn't true I didn't do that but i should
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have done. But I did give it back to my mate Ben. So yeah and now I have a little scar
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in the top of my head.
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My dream is to live by the sea. I think this is a dream that is shared with many many people.
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But yeah I would love to live by the sea. I'm not quite sure where but I love the idea
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of being by the beach, being able to go into the sea, hopefully with no sharks and see
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the horizon.
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I have one or two nicknames. My niece and nephew call me Uncle T which I like, Uncle
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T, Uncle Tom. When I was teaching kids they used to call me Teacher Tom. It's not really
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a nickname but I really liked it. Teacher Tom. I was teaching them about Space and this
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little five year old goes 'Teacher Tom, Teacher Tom my sister likes apples.' Ok, that's great
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information, thank you for telling me that.
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I have one sister, her name is Anya and you guys have probably met her. She's been in
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a couple of my videos already. We walked around London a couple of times and we walked around
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the countryside together. She's awesome, she's obviously the best sister that I could wish
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for and I know that you guys love her as well so hopefully I'll get her on another video
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really soon. Because yeah, she's awesome.
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When I was a kid I wanted to be a rollercoaster designer. I didn't really know what it meant
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but I'd been to a theme park where there was an amazing roller coaster and i loved the
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idea of designing one so I used to get paper and pens and just draw these crazy designs
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and it never went beyond that but yeah that was kind of what I wanted to do as a kid.
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Oh and obviously be a football player, of course.
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This one is a hard one to admit but I have never watched Star Wars! I know! I know! I
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should, I really should! But I've kind of got to the point now where I kind of don't
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want to. Maybe this is me being stubborn but every time I tell someone that I've never
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seen Star Wars I just love their reaction. They are like 'oh what! You've.. what!' and
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I enjoy seeing their reaction so maybe I should never watch Star Wars. Let me know if you've
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never watched Star Wars, please let me know in the comments below. If I could meet any
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famous person, I would love to meet David Attenborough. Now David Attenborough is a
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national treasure here in Britain. He presents nature documentaries so if you have ever seen
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Planet Earth or Blue Planet, he was the voice and presenter for those programmes. He does
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amazing amazing TV. He has shown me the world, so I have been able to sit in my living room
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and he has shown me the world. He's gone to every corner and shown me how beautiful the
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world is so I'd love to talk to him to ask him questions about you know what he's seen
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and what he's done and all his experiences. At my sister's wedding I wore a kilt which
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is traditional Scottish dress. Now I'm not Scottish but my sister's husband is Scottish
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so we all wore kilts to the wedding. I have had every bad haircut that you can imagine.
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Literally everything. I've shaved my hair off, I have had bleach blonde hair, I've had
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cornrows, I've had it all. I've had a mohican, I've had every terrible haircut there is possible
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and I'm glad that I have because you've got to try these things once, right? So yeah,
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every haircut you could imagine.
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One of my first jobs when I was about fourteen or fifteen. At Christmas I worked in a shop
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that sold Christmas trees. So I would help families, they would come into the shop. They
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would want to buy a Christmas tree and I would help them choose the Christmas tree that they
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wanted and then I would put it on my shoulder and carry it to their car. It was a really
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fun job, it was really festive and i kind of thought I was helping families find their
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Christmas tree which is kind of magical so yeah that was a really fun job. It was quite
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tiring but yeah I enjoyed it. But my worst job, well that's easy that's very easy. So
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after leaving school I was temping, so i was doing different jobs every day and one job
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that I was given by the temping agency was to go about fifty miles north to a town called
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Milton Keynes. The night before was an Eminem concert and it was a huge venue, outdoor venue
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and we got there and the manager just said you need to clear this field of all the rubbish.
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And this field was covered with rubbish. Everything. Cans, bottles, just...it was awful. And it
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was a sunny day so I thought well I'll make the best of it so I took off my top and I
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tried to get a sun tan. Obviously in summer that's a pretty silly thing to do if yo haven't
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got any sun tan cream. So we were working there for eight hours, picking up these bottles,
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putting them into plastic bags. Finally we finished and then my friend looked at me and
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he's like 'Tom you are super red. You look like a lobster!' And indeed I was covered
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in sunburn. So the journey home, it was the worst. I couldn't touch the back of my seat
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because it hurt too much I just had to stand up right. I was absolutely shattered from
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the day at work. It was the worst day ever. Definitely. Definitely the worst job I've
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ever done. It's made me appreciate how hard some jobs are and you know, and the tough
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things that a lot of people have to do every day. So yeah, it was a good experience, a
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good learning experience. When I was a kid I was obsessed with WWF which is wrestling.
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And my favourite wrestler was the Ultimate Warrior. The Ultimate Warrior, he was the
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ultimate wrestler in my eyes. He was strong, he was fast, he was cool.
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I've been in two bands. Well I say two bands. One was a group where we did like one terrible
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concert we were singers, it was awful. And the second one was a punk band, again not
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very good but we played one concert in the same venue that Coldplay have played so that's
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kind of cool. I've played in the same venue as Coldplay. When I was a little kid I was
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definitely very mischievous. A little bit naughty but I was also a little bit cheeky
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so i kind of got away with murder really. So I'd get into the food draws and I'd just
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eat the chocolate that was there or any sweets that I could find. And then my Mum would find
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me and be like 'tom what are you doing?' And I would just smile and grin and have this
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cheeky face and she would start laughing and I got away with it.
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And the final one and the most important is that I have a niece and nephew. My nephew
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is Stanley and my niece is Isla and they are awesome. I love hanging out with them, we
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do all kinds of fun things. So we play football, we do musical statues, we play Uno. They are
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much better than me at these games but I love playing with them they are super fun. That
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was thirty five facts about me. I hope you enjoyed that. Let me know in the comments
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below, were any of those similar for you. Do you have a niece and nephew or are you
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afraid of sharks? Let me know in the comments below, I'd love to know more about you guys.
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Remember guys I've got new videos every Tuesday and every Friday teaching you fresh modern
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British English. Remember to hit the subscribe button, hit the like button and of course
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if you are on Instagram or on Facebook I'm there as well so go check those out as well.
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Thank you so much for hanging out with me today, I've really enjoyed this one. It's
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been a personal vlog today but I hope you have enjoyed it. Anyway, this is Tom, the
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Chief Dreamer, saying goodbye.
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