"My profile lists my professional background, but my true education as an ESL tutor came from my students. For 25 years, I have seen the world--all four corners of it-- through the eyes of the many students who I have helped acclimate and learn our language. This opportunity and blessing has offered me the experience to be broad-minded (a real gift) and uniquely empathetic towards their academic and personal challenges and anxious concerns. They are not just students who come into my life one day and not remembered after they leave. My teaching relationship goes with them, and a little bit of them remains in me, too, as an spiritual influence to help the next student succeed. This is how one grows in my business. This the gift of English I try to offer to those who ask to receive it." less...