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About me
I am an American and grew up in Indianapolis, which is about 200 miles from Chicago and the 12th largest city in America, with a population of 1½ million. Living in the suburbs of a large city has given me the best of two worlds – city and country life. Indianapolis is a typical American city.
Even as a child, I had a gift for languages and an interest in other countries, especially Europe. When I was at primary school I found a programme for pen friends and decided to join. It wasn't long before I got letters from children in my age writing to me from all corners of the world. The letters opened my eyes to people and places, from which sprang my interest in languages.
After learning German for a year at high school, I was offered to go along with my German teacher to Germany. So I went to Europe for the first time that following summer and had such a wonderful time I wanted to go back again but as an exchange student. I went to Germany through the Rotary Youth Exchange Programme; a very interesting programme, in which student stay with three or four host families in one year, as to get a better image of life in the host country. I stayed in a small city called Warendorf and had such a great time that I had homesickness for Germany upon arriving back in Indianapolis. After high school I studied German at Indiana University, but the only opportunity after university being to teach German, I decided studying German was not for me.
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