He used to be my father's colleague and really looks like my father. He's not very tall, about 170 centimetres at most, I think. It is very easy to recognise professor Phan because he is bald on top and wear a pair of big glasses, which makes him look very professional and knowledgeable. He's very nice, friendly, and easy-going. When you have problems, he is a person you should turn to for he is intelligent and ready to help. 

 

Now we don't see each other very often as I went to college in another city a few years ago. But I visit him whenever I go back to my home town. 

 

Personally, I guess he is the best neighbour that one can have. He has influenced me a lot in learning English since my childhood. You know, in the 1980s when very few people had TV, he was given one by a foreign friend. Every Sunday morning, I would go to his house to watch a very popular English language teaching programme named Follow Me. Apart from that, he often encouraged me when I felt bad or did a bad job on an exam. I stll remember he told me that as long as I tried, it did not matter what result I got on the college entrance examinations. I wish I could become a professor like him in the future.