About Me

My name is Abby De Borde.  I completed a Graduate Diploma of Teaching and Learning through the University of Southern Queensland, online from Shanghai, China in June 2011.  I will be continuing my study and converting my Graduate Diploma into a Master of Learning and Development, starting in November 2012.

We have been living in Shanghai for four years, and I came as the 'trailing spouse'.  We have two small children, and with the help that is readily available in China, it seemed an excellent time to return to study and change my career after 13 years in Banking and Finance.

My husband is also a teacher, and works in an international school. The expat life agrees with us.  So primary teaching for me seemed like the appropriate avenue for a new career, with the dream of being an employable 'teaching couple', preferably at an international school on a tropical island.