My name is Michael Beauchot. I was born in 1954 in Decatur, Indiana, in the United States of America. My parents still live in my hometown and I have four brothers, two sisters, five nieces, five nephews, and a cat on earth and two in heaven.

I taught for 24 years in the USA after I graduated from Indiana University with a bachelors of science degree in education in 1977. I earned a masters of science degree in education in 1988 and earned a master of arts in teaching English in 1992. In the USA, I taught at my alma mater Indiana University for seven years and at Ivy Tech State College for three terms.

I taught all subjects at the middle school level and was also a high school and kindergarten teacher during the time I taught in the USA.

I was a teacher in the private school system of the Republic of South Korea for two years and was slated to teach in Turkey, but a bout of ill health prevented that from happening. I have taught in China since 2001. I have taught in Liaocheng, Shandong in 2001, where I lived at a university and taught middle school students. It was my first experience teaching outside the USA. I am now in my eighth year of teaching in China as I have also taught in Beijing, Dalian, Chengdu, Nanning, and at smaller cities and one village in the provinces of Henan, Sichuan, and Guangdong before coming to Zhuhai this year.

I have made many friends since coming to China. My fiancee Wang Ying is Chinese - we met in Nanning two years ago. One of my students in Nanning adopted me as her grand-father. My grand-daughter Sophia and the rest of her 0810 English class that I taught two years ago are now in Thailand as part of the pilot program of English-Thai Chinese students.

I was the first foreign teacher ever at the middle school I taught at in Liaocheng - this is now the foreign language school for its county. I am the only person I know who has taught kindergarten in China, South Korea, and the USA.

I have a string of unusual accomplishments in my life. I was the youngest lector in my city and the youngest city Little League baseball tournament announcer in the history of my city. I appeared on a Korean game show and would have been in a Korean movie if I had stayed one more month in Korea. Ironically, my sister was the one who broke my record as the youngest lector in the city! I held the record for the most hours taken at my college campus - possibly, I still hold this mark.

I am a published author in a poetry magazine called Confluence. I am the author of four teaching manuals at the university level - one each in basic English, business English, basic math, and business math

I appeared several times in the Wenxuan Middle School video that was shown on tlocal television several times in Liaocheng.

Subjects I have taught in Chinese universities include written English, oral English, writing for special purposes, communications, literature of the West, extensive reading, British culture, English-speaking countries, British literature, and comprehensive English. I have taught undergraduates, masters degree students and doctoral students. I have also taught middle school students, kindergarten students, and high school students.