Ms Maria

The Netherlands - 2 years; Russia 7 years; Belarus - 1 year; China - 1 year.

If you need some help, find a teacher. Being helpful is my core and it took me some time to find my way to this professional path. Being able to help, pass some valuable knowledge and guide the younger generation seems like a perfect combination for work to me. If you are interested and passionate about the thing you do, then the students can feel it too and be inspired by you. We should show the students that we can be also as interested in life as they are, sharing similar interests and possibly even like the same food. We are not aliens, we also like pizza and watching movies.

2015 - Buddy project at Saxion University; 2019 - Video advertising in Lendoc; 2020 - Modern Art history in Synergy university; 2021 - TKT course at Language Link; 2023 - TESOL course at ASU; 2024 - Art teaching course.

Not being afraid to get out of my comfort zone and being uncomfortable in the new environment when you move abroad.

I can't call myself exactly sporty girl but I do like dancing and swimming. When it to comes to creative activities, I can only try naming something I don't like. Exploring Beijing area and seeing the Great Wall for the first time was breath taking along with me hiking in the mountains and fighting my fear of heights. I can occasionally embarrass myself by signing some old school Russian songs in karaoke.

I would like to participate in an art exhibition and to be able to help kids finding some comfort in art.