About Me

Location:
Madrid Spain
Latitude/Longitude:
40.416775400000, -3.703790200000
Journal Entry:

My name is Jeffrey Tadao Tarrasch, and I come from Los Altos, California. Los Altos is a sleepy little town an hour south of San Francisco. My last name is German, as my father’s family comes from Germany, while my middle name comes from my maternal grandfather. My mother’s family comes from Japan, and they decided to name me after my grandfather.

I am 26 years old, and I am currently an English teacher at Colegio Jesus Maria in Madrid, Spain. I teach English to students in middle and high school here. My students are mostly from Spain, but a few come from Africa as well. They all speak Spanish as a first language and are currently learning English. They are fantastic, and I feel very lucky to teach at my school and spend time with them. 

Before Spain, I lived most of my life in California. I was born and raised in the Bay Area (around San Francisco) before leaving home to study at UCLA in Los Angeles. I studied chemistry there and rowed on the college club team. I love both sports and science. 

After graduating, I left California (a very tough thing as any Californian will tell you). I moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan where I became a lab assistant in a structural biology lab.

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