Anastasia

I am a language teacher, married, no kids.

I was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, on April 4 1958. I graduated from high school in June 1976 and soon after my graduation I left my country to study in Switzerland. After having followed a foundation course for a year at the University of Fribourg, I enrolled to the Faculty of Letters, University of Geneva where I did my Master of Arts in French and English literature and graduated with honours in July 1982.

In October 1983, I married Alkis, the man of my life, who I had first met in Fribourg 7 years before. The wedding took place at the Greek Orthodox Church of Champesy on the outskirts of Geneva and was followed by a reception at Le Parc des Eaux Vives. Soon after the reception, we left on our honeymoon. We spent our first night as husband and wife in Fribourg – the city where we had first met and fallen in love. The following day we drove to Saint Moritz in the Grisons (central Switzerland) where we spent 2 unforgettable weeks. Then I worked on and off as a part-time English teacher at various schools in Geneva while at the same time I followed a course in educational psychology at the University of Geneva.

In March 1983, we decided to leave Switzerland and go back home. We spent a year in Corfu, Greece where I taught ESL at a local language school and then settled down for good in Larnaca, Cyprus. I taught English for HND (Higher National Diploma) at a private college and then I was hired at The American Academy, Larnaca where I taught French and English for 7 years. Since September 1997, I’ve been successfully running my own language school. I am also the published author of “T.S.Eliot – The Eternal” – a critical study on the element of time in T.S.Eliot’s major poems.