Cindy Hansen:  

Life Married 2001, 1 child live in Switzerland. Account is with hot mail under name seejax. I graduated from A.N. Myer in 1986 which couldn't possibly be twenty years ago! So the quick run down of my life since then follows: I went to McMaster for two years studying Biology and Psychology and then transferred to Guelph to continue in their Honours Zoology program. In the middle of those years, I took a year off and joined the Canada World Youth exchange program and spent a year on an exchange between Canada and Thailand. In Canada I lived in B.C. on the island and in Thailand I lived in a village in the central plains. After the program I returned to school and finished my degree. After graduating in 1992 I was spinning my wheels, jobless in Toronto while my then boyfriend was finishing his masters. I decided to take an evening class in Japanese just for fun with an eye to maybe returning to Asia someday. Through my Japanese teacher, I found out about the JET teaching program in Japan. I was accepted and then taught English for a year in Japan. I returned to Canada just before winter was due to arrive, and sizing up the bleak employment situation I decided to take off for Bali for four months. It was there that I decided to return to Japan. Back to Japan, I taught in conversation schools in the Osaka area for 3 years. I then saw an ad in the Japan times for a Biology teacher in a Japanese boarding school in Switzerland! That is where I ...Expand for more