Hello! I’m Monica and I’m a native English speaker born in Seattle, Washington, and I lived in Washington state for the major part of my life. During my earlier years I had worked several ordinary jobs, just to get by.

My education background was in computer and data communication. I had no idea of my future career or where my true success would lie. For years I had worked ordinary jobs, whatever I could get, just to get by. My vision for being a technical specialist of some sort had then dissipated. Then years later, my dad decided to retire and we all moved to the beautiful state of Montana. Since relocating, I had been looking for work-from-home jobs and had run the whole gamut, but then I circled back and reflected on how excited I always felt when meeting people from other countries! It’s as if I had a nationality fetish, as far back as my teen years ! I loved reaching out to make friends from diverse cultures, even across the miles, and I still do to this day.

At one time in the past I lived a few doors down from a family who temporarily immigrated from Jordan. They were related to my next door neighbor. We, including my mother, quickly developed a friendship with this Jordanian family—actually the mom was from Syria— and we had so much fun and laughter about each other’s language nuances, but knowing them as friends was an unforgettable experience for me!

Moving forward, and in lieu of my remote work pursuit, I was facing a challenge that reshaped my career change decision: the challenge was finding my niche, what really resonated with me. So I did some research and found out that online tutoring or teaching was a good and satisfying way to earn money, and that learning English, as in ESL, was indeed in great demand. Suddenly a big “lightbulb” lit up! I felt inspired and decided to pursue language teaching: English as a second language. So, I became TESOL-certified in 2021 and I have been teaching one on one classes online for about 4 years—whatever opportunity I could land! I specialize in English grammar, speaking, listening, reading, and writing. I also love to help students with role plays, conversation, proper sentence structure, and pronunciation. For my purposes in this venture, I decided to start my own teaching business. I am currently seeking and hoping to work with adult English learners in the workforce who need to improve their skills, as well as expats to the U.S. preferably, or other English speaking countries. So that’s where I’m at right now!