I was born in Hong Kong and went to boarding school in England when I was 13 years old.  I thought my English was not too bad at the time but I was just too optimistic.

I actually suffered culture shock and I didn’t even know about it.  I understood the conversations around me at the time but I was not able to respond quickly.  I was consciously doing the translations inside my head and it was challenging keeping up with the conversations.

It was also during this very first year that my English skills increased exponentially, especially in my English Fluency.