Martin Kimmel
(1991)
Hayakawa, the bridge
Sweating up the hill to teach
1:30 Micro
Listen!
Yoshi Goes To New York
Mount Fuji and darkness
But at 5 in the morning I can see its silhouette
On a sea of clouds below me.
The apples are peeled, the oven hot,
What a process it is
The Aplfelstrudel
Make the salad
Set the table
A handful of cooks
Dinner at Don's.
Why did Ruthy go to the bank?
The questions are fired,
Rapidly!
Austria...we have no kangaroos
But folkdances and
Yodeling
Rodstones and Mystery Milescreens,
Lucy and Bart,
Fluency Strategies and Explanation Squares.
The memories are there,
But fading.
Kimmelhouse Brewers,
A simulation.
LIOJ,
A reality
Hiking in Hakone
The Tokaido
Hundreds of hydrangea
My work at present includes teaching at the University of Vienna and at the TECHNIKUM Wien, Vienna's first University of Applied Sciences, where I also head the office for international relations. I am a teacher trainer and chair of the Ministry of Education's Foreign Language Commission and on the teaching staff of the Austro-American Institute of Education involved in the TOEFL, GMAT, TOEIC and the University of Michigan's language testing programs and numerous business communications seminars.
I am married to Christina who teaches Chinese at the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna and at the Vienna University of Economics. We have two children, Alina 4 1/2 and Christopher 3. They keep us busy and very happy and even allow a game of basketball here and there which is necessary to keep in shape for when my older son Marc comes. He is living in Vancouver and we visit each other quite regularly and I am not ready, yet, to be beaten in basketball by him.
And yes, having had the opportunity and the privilege to teach at LIOJ has made possible much of what I am doing now. And although it was a relatively short time on Shiroyama, there is little in my life now that is not somehow, in one way or another, touched by my experiences there and the people I was fortunate to meet.
May 2002
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