Word Paintings from Around the World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781546252207)

At the age of 18, my grandfather, who was born in Switzerland, gave me a one way ticket to Switzerland with the instruction that I was to work my way home. From that moment, my poems blossomed and I caught the travel bug. Many of these poems were written en route to some distant shore and the other non -travel-related poems were tributes to many friends and family over the years, as well as my students, in an attempt to paint them in words...thus Word Paintings. Suzanne is a retired teacher of English and German and has visited 32 countries, speaks fluent German and conversational French. She earned a Bachelor's Degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a Masters of Education from the University of New Hampshire. She was part of the UC Berkeley Education Abroad Program, attending the University of Goettingen. She spent 22 years teaching in American high schools and in 1998-1999, she spent a year in the Hamburg area as a Fulbright Exchange Teacher. At that time, she did her research for her first book, The ABC's of Education: Euro-American Style. She lived a total of five years in Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. Her husband of 31 years, Martin Strauss, was a huge support in her overseas endeavors and continues to be extremely supportive to this day.