Cindi
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Hi, from Texas! I taught first grade many years ago, and after raising my son I am ready to try the new way of teaching --- online! I have lived in Texas most of my life, but before that I lived in California and Washington state. I love animals and nature and photography and reading and home improvement shows and scuba diving. I have volunteered for 13 years helping homeless animals find new homes by photographing them for my city's animal control and for local animal rescues. At one time I had 4 large dogs and 6 cats, and I loved fostering animals until they found new homes. Now I have 4 cats and would like to have another dog and to foster kittens again when I find the right house. I love all animals and enjoy talking about them all. I have not traveled as much as I would like to but have been to a few countries in Europe and Mexico and some Caribbean islands. Photography is another love of mine --- of animals and wildlife of course, but also nature, flowers, landscapes, even architecture and humans. And I am currently learning some yoga and meditation. I have also done a bit of art in the past, mainly pottery and some crafts like crocheting, quilt making, macrame, and recently I tried making a mosaic.
I am a former first grade teacher, a photographer, an animal lover, a scuba diver, an avid reader, a mother and a grandmother. I have lived in Texas most of my life but have also lived in California and Washington state and I have traveled to or through most of the United States. I currently have 4 cats but have had many dogs, hamsters, birds, bunnies and guinea pigs. When I was young I enjoyed swimming, hiking, water and snow skiing, boating, canoeing, sailing, and ice skating.
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I have been tutoring on Cambly for almost 3 years and have found I especially enjoy helping adults improve their English through conversation, reading and discussing news articles, exchanging ideas about all kinds of common topics, learning phrasal verbs and idioms and working through the courses available on Cambly. I can help students improve their pronunciations, sentence structure, word stress, phrasing, vocabulary, and understanding of phrasal verbs and idioms. I feel I am better skilled at working with adults and teenagers if they already have a foundation in English, or are at an upper beginner to intermediate level and above.