Lorena
Lorena has a double degree in teaching and languages, majoring in French and ESL (English as a Second Language). She worked as a teacher of French, Italian and Spanish in a language high school in Australia, before moving to France where she taught English in a public elementary school in Lille.
Since arriving in Japan in 1997 her working experience has included co-ordinating a children's program in a major English Conversation School, teaching full-time as the only English teacher in a kindergarten and teaching children of all ages in community groups.
She is the mother of three young children and holds a Senior First Aid Certificate from the Australian Red Cross.