Although I’m originally from New York, I have spent nearly three and a half years of my life in East and Southeast Asia. I have studied abroad in Tokyo and Hong Kong, and taught English in a private school in Jakarta, Indonesia and in a public middle school with sixty students per class in Shenzhen, China.In Jakarta, I taught many facets of English with Berlitz language schools. The number of students per class, English language knowledge and age of the students varied greatly; generally i.