Katharine´s biography- By Ana Sofia

Today she´s teaching University Nova de Lisboa but in the past Katharine Hurlstone travelled by several countries throughout the world, studied Biology but teaches English… A life full of adventure, stories to tell and most important: the journey isn´t finish yet.
Katharine was born on the 21st of October in 1964 in England, Darlington. Her parents are John and Margot. According to her she had a very happy childhood.
She attended Denten primary school between six and eleven years old, Stainddrop comprehensive school- secondary school between eleven and sixteen and Darlington 6th Form College and Southampton University.
With a passion for animals, she used to have a gold fish and adopted a cat that had five kittens so she kept six cats for sixteen years and with the help of her grandmother she got a pony- when she was about 12 years old.
While she was young, Katharine wanted to be a vet before she wanted to become a teacher. But later she thought she would like to become a teacher because she had two brothers and likes interacting with people.
Katharine studied Biology for three years, from 1983 to 1986. From 86 to 87 she went to Loughbrough to get her teacher´s license- Post graduate certificate in education- and in 87 she started by teaching math’s.
After a bad experience with the first year teaching math’s she decided to travel around the world. So she lived in Surrey ( in England) where she taught two years, lived one year in Australia, fourteen years in Japan, six months in Greece and Brazil and one year in Chile. She wanted to travel to see the world. She went to Iceland, America, and New Zealand and when she was in Australia she was a English teacher.
In 1991 Katharine went back to England to get her teacher´s license.
Speaking about the countries she says she likes the sense of humor and the wide spaces of Australia, the food in Thailand, the Philippines beaches, and the British sense of humor. She liked living Japan because it was a very clean space.
Her favorite books are the life of the Pie, The time traveller´s wife, The catcher in the Rye.
Katharine describes herself as being a quiet person who likes movies, her friends, living by the sea and likes going out to restaurants.
Her happiest moment in life was when she got a degree at University and managed to get a job and go home for her family.
Katharine speaks Spanish (in a medium level), French, Japanese and Portuguese (in an elementary level).
At the moment she´s living in Portugal after have spent fourteen years in Japan.