My ESL career started somewhat accidentally. Perusing
the newspaper one day during my final semester of university,
I saw an ad with the simple banner "Would you like
to teach English in Japan?" "Why yes, I would," I thought suddenly. And a few months later I was on a plane
to Tokyo. Seven years and four countries later, ESL is still
very much a part of my life, and what once seemed like an
'accident' has now turned itself into a career I enjoy immensely.
I have worked in literally all facets of the field, from
teaching a roomful of screaming two-year olds in Japan to
working with professional actors as a voice coach in Krakow
to lending my voice to educational CD ROMs on both ends
of Europe (I chuckle to think that somewhere there may be
thousands of children learning to speak by modeling my voice!).
At present, I am working as an adjunct professor of College
Writing and Philosophy at a junior college in Brooklyn,
and next year I hope to enroll in a university in New York
to get an MFA in Creative Writing (my other passion).
