Zdravstvuite!  I was born and raised in Kyrgystan, a country in Central Asia.  Although Russian is no longer the State Language, I was raised during the Soviet and post Soviet times when Russian was the official language.

Since my childhood I have wanted to travel widely and learn foreign languages.  We studied English in school and I enjoyed learning it and decided to become a language teacher, so I attended Osh State University where I majored in foreign language teaching.

Before graduating I taught English to the UN World Food Programme staff in Kyrgystan.  After graduating I went to work in Germany to improve my knowledge of the German language and German culture.  After that I decided to go to the US and now love living here with my husband!

I started teaching Russian in the US and now I also teach Russian language at LanguageArts!

I really enjoy teaching and strive to pay attention to all my students' individual needs and help them work on those specific areas that will most contribute to their progress.

Do svidaniia!