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About Me - What you should know about me...

I spent three years in Asia after graduating from college - two in Taiwan and one on a Rotary Graduate Scholarship to Chiangmai, Thailand.
I love reading Tang Poetry (and even had a translation of Meng Hao Ran's 'Spring Dawn' published in a Taiwanese Quarterly!).

I now have two kids (ages 12 and 10) and have recently begun daydreaming about teaching and traveling - once again a vagabond dreamer!

I have a fondness for orchids, good java and conversation.

This is my seventh year of teaching: I was a NYC Teaching Fellow and taught second and fifth grades before working as a technology staff developer for Region 4. I have been a technology instructor and staff developer at PS 145 for the past three years.

I love dancing and am taking Salsa and Flamenco classes!

gender

female

What is your favorite food?

I love Indian, Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese cuisine. Italian is also wonderful - I won't pass up an offer of lasagna or spaghetti and meatballs, either!

What is your favorite type of music? Who is your favorite musician?

I love classical, jazz, Indian.... any world music. I am fond of Mandarin Chinese Karaoke and secretly dream of entering a competition in which I can belt out my favorite tunes.

What is your favorite place? why?

To be totally honest - my bed. I would live in it if I could. I have even taken over half of the living room as my bedroom because we only have a two bedroom apartment and my kids (a boy and a girl) each have their own room. Ok, so they can't watch TV forever or stay up late because Mommy wants to sleep. But, I literally am in the center of it all and get to lie in bed propped up on a million pillows.

What is your favorite holiday? why?

My children, whose father is Chinese-American, love Chinese New Year.

What do you teach?:

Computers grades k-5.

Where do you teach?

PS 145, Bushwick, Brooklyn

What would you advise others about teaching?

Go for it - It is the toughest job you'll ever love to hate.