NVTESOL

Thanks for the offer, but I'm no longer in China (not Japan). I've been teaching here in Nevada for a few years now.

I'm very glad to have a TESOL organization here in Nevada, and appreciate your work in getting it going. I belonged to AsiaTEFL when I lived abroad, and always enjoyed our annual conventions.

Maria's in Elko, so I see her when we have district ESL meetings but that's about it. She mentioned at one of our meetings that she was the head of our local chapter.

I was in the Air Force for a number of years. I heard about the Defense Language Institute in Monterrey after I joined up, and initially wanted to apply to go there. I heard, however, that it's one of the toughest career fields and that the failure rate is very high. Kudos for having survived!

You're too generous! Every day is a learning experience for me here at the high school 😅 My second language is Mandarin; I studied for two years at 东北师范大学 (Northeast Normal University in Changchun, Jilin), then lived and taught in China for a number of years. Living in a culture and in a language that was outside of my own is what switched me on to wanting to teach ELs in America.