About Me

Scunthorpe | San Francisco | Bogotá | Abu Dhabi | Shanghai

“Unless you know the road you’ve come down, you cannot know where you are going.”

Temne Povab, Sierra Leone

Society labels me as a BBC (British Born Chinese), because I was born in Scunthorpe, a town in northern England, to Hong Kong immigrants. After 22 years in the UK, my parents uprooted the family to San Francisco, California and I was enrolled in the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi River, Lowell. I graduated magna cum laude from Notre Dame de Namur University (formerly College of Notre Dame) in Belmont, California in History and Social Science with a Political Science minor.

While in high school, teaching became my calling. I pursued my dream by earning a teaching degree also from NDNU. Henry M. Gunn Senior High School in Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley, was where I began teaching full-time. Down the road, teaching abroad became a desire. A colleague and friend encouraged me to pursue this aspiration. Before I knew it, I woke up in Bogotá, Colombia teaching at Colegio Los Nogales, a private, national, and bilingual school. Thereafter, I held the chair of history and social science at the American International School in Abu Dhabi. Now I reside in China, exploring my heritage while teaching at Shanghai American School.

Life outside of school includes relaxing with a good book, socialising with a fresh cup of coffee, and trying new types of foods to name a few. However, nothing beats travelling. As you can see throughout my web site, I've posted photographs from a few of my leisurely travels and arduous treks. Yes, I took all the photos, so you can also list amateur photography and basic web page design as interests of mine.