A Redhill law school graduate will this week be temporarily swapping the comfortable surroundings of his Carlton Road home for the poverty stricken suburbs in Sri Lanka to teach English.
Xavier Nicholas, 26, and a former Reigate Grammar School pupil, finished law school last month and before he starts his new contract at London law firm Macfarlanes in March, he will be travelling to Sri Lanka where he will spend one month teaching English to teachers and students in schools.
An excited Xavier said: "I have been given six months off by the firm which I have started so I wanted to give myself something useful to do before then. I have wanted to go abroad and teach for some time now."
Xavier will be living with a Sri Lankan family who do not speak any English and will be teaching in a local school, educating teachers as well as children aged 7-14.
Xavier added: "Learning English is very important to the children as you have to speak English to stand a chance of getting a job in the tourist industry, which is by far their biggest trade."
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