"Catherine is an expert, advanced level English/ESL teacher of over 10 years experience. She is also a cellist, writer, printmaker, jeweler, cartoonist and science fiction fan. She received her first degree, a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Music, from the University of Oregon in 1980, and in 2002 concluded a Teacher Training Program through Northwest Christian College and acquired licenses to teach ESL and middle school maths -in which she was rated Highly Qualified. After a year of substitute teaching in Hillsborough, she relocated to St Paul Island AK, where she taught math and music.

She returned to Oregon in 2004, but faced with poor economic prospects, relocated to Prague, in the Czech Republic, where she taught English from 2007-2015. Ms Chandler was born in Chicago and grew up near Washington DC. Having attended college in Oregon, she met and married David Chandler, an Oregon native, in 1981. She and her husband have lived in San Francisco, CA, Eugene, Florence and Portland, OR, Bloomington IN, and Bethesda MD, as well as in the Czech Republic. In her varied career she has worked as a foot messenger, a convenience store clerk an, office assistant and an outdoor educator, among other things. Catherine speaks Czech (a Slavic language, related to Russian and Polish) at an intermediate level, as well as a little bit of French and Italian. As an English teacher, her special skills are in advanced level grammar and writing." less...