Aki O’Mitovski, native of North Macedonia and a European at heart, has been teaching English as a Foreign Language since 2008. He’s taught English to pretty much all age groups, social classes, and walks of life, in North Macedonia, China, and currently, Malta. Some of the more memorable experiences include correcting mispronunciation of words like ‘focus’, ‘coke’, and ‘happiness’ (if you don’t pronounce the initial H) in a single conversation with French-speaking students, or creating a tongue-twister challenging enough for his Spanish-speaking students, which goes: a bear and a bird with a beard were drinking beer.

He’s been mistaken for an American more than once, a couple of times for a Latino, and gets mistaken for a Maltese all the time. The conversations that ensue have often been the starting point of friendships, and/or a good night out with beer and barbecue.

When he’s not teaching English or writing short stories, he watches (and re-watches) lots of Star Trek, wishing he wore a blue-and-black uniform, and enjoys discovering new sci-fi shows and movies. He also has a keen interest in poetry, both reading it and writing his own. He’s yet to write poems that talk about spaceships or gay Klingons, though.