My name is Karen Haines and I enjoy teaching at Unitec very much. I have been here now for more than five years, and have been teaching for more than twenty years in different places and also different subjects.
When I am not at work, my family takes up a lot of my time. My husband is Mark and he is also a teacher. We have three children – Roxanne, Christopher and Timothy. We enjoy going to the beach together and often go up to Muriwai on the West Coast. The children all learn different musical instruments and I enjoy playing piano with them. My husband sings and is in a band. We don’t spend much time watching TV, as there are too many other things to do.
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- Karen Haines
- I love learning about new people, about language, about new technologies
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My husband and the boys often go body-surfing or boogie-boarding. I like to walk along the beach, or lie back and watch all the people! The walk round to see the gannets is cool too.
Dear Mark and Karen
Hi there. It’s Phil Spires here with greetings from La Nucia, Spain. I hope that you are well and that this message does not come as too much of a shock. It's a long time since we were in brunei!!
I am writing to let you know that my first novel, Mission, has just been published and is available now on amazon.co.uk and amazon.com. It is perhaps easiest to find it via my own website.
I would be really happy, of course, if you were interested enough to buy a copy. If not, thanks for taking the time to read the message anyway. I have a website with full details at this address:
http://www.philipspires.co.uk
and, if nothing else, I would be really grateful if you would visit the site! There are links to the book’s page on amazon where it says Click here to buy Mission at amazon.com
If you really wouldn’t mind, however – and I know this is a really big favour, I would be eternally grateful to you if you would forward this email to any of your own friends, relatives or contacts who might be interested in reading a really good, thought-provoking book!
The link below is to the book’s page on amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Mission-Phillip-Spires/dp/1905988079/ref=sr_1_1/002-8731984-0013611?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179498932&sr=8-1
Its ISBN is:
ISBN-10: 1905988079
ISBN-13: 978-1905988075
Do have a look at the website to see the book’s cover (it’s too new to displayed yet on amazon) and the book’s general theme is below.
Book Description
Michael, a missionary priest in Kenya, has just killed Munyasya, a retired army officer. It might have been an accident, but Mulonzya, a politician resentful of the power of foreign churches, tries to exploit the tragedy for his own ends. Boniface, a young church worker, and his wife, Josephine, have just lost their child. They did not make it to the hospital in time, possibly because Michael made a detour to retrieve a letter from the Mission, a letter from Janet, a former volunteer teacher who was the priest's neighbour for two years. It is Munyasya who has the last laugh, however, when he reveals that he was probably in control of events all along. Thirty years on, the same characters find their lives still influenced by his memory.
Sincere best wishes – and I really do hope you enjoy the book!
Philip Spires
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