Biography+of+Mr+Goto

My name is Giichi Goto and I originally come from Japan. I am married and am a proud father of three children. I was born in Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan where I did all my schooling up to the secondary level. When I was at Nagaizumi High in Shizuoka, I found out that our school had a sister school in Wanganui, New Zealand. I was very fortunate enough to be given an opportunity to go to NZ for 10 days, where I attended a high school there.

During the stay in NZ I just fell in love with the language(Kiwi English), the friendly people, the beautiful green environment and coast and everything else NZ had to offer. Soon after I left NZ, I decided to study abroad.

After 4 months of intense learning at Massey English Language Centre, I was accepted by Massey University College of Education. With many challenges and hurdles I completed __Diploma of Teaching and Bachelor of Education Degree in 1998__.

I first worked at Dannevirke South School for 4 and a half years. Then we moved to a beautiful but smelly (smell of sulphur all around the city) city of Rotorua that is surrounded by many bautiful lakes, streams, hot springs and great outdoor activities. I taught at Kawaha Point School for 7 and a half years and decided to move to Poland. So now here I am at Wroclaw International School! I am so excited about working with new awesome people and students. If you have any question about anything, please feel free to drop me an email or pop in after school to see me. goto@fem.org.pl

This is a photo of my lovely class 'Space 11' taken on my last day. (15th July 2011) The young lady you can see on your right is Monique Avery. She was my student teacher for 5 weeks. Monique has won World Championship title twice in Xterra, which is an outdoor triathlon.