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May 27,2023

Faculty Spotlight~ Ms. Ximena Dombkowski

By Enya Chen ('29), Nero Ho ("29)

Hola, ¿Cómo estás, yo estoy bien y tú ? Ms. Ximena Dombkowski has taught this phrase to each and every student for over 6 years at AST with kindness and respect toward every one of them. Ms.Ximena originally came to Taiwan because of a multicultural family. Mr.Dombkowski and Ms.Ximena decided to expose their beloved sons to another culture which is Taiwanese, and while Ms. Ximena and her husband were looking for a job offer in other foreign countries, AST offered both of them a job here in Taiwan. Away from school, Ms. Ximena enjoys cooking Colombian food like Arepas and Sudado. She also enjoys reading. She started her love for reading after she joined a reading club. During her childhood, she liked to go under the sun and play with her two sisters outside. She also had a lot of family gatherings which has impacted her a lot in her life because she believes that family is very important.

Originally she got into teaching after she married the love of her life, Mr. Dombkowski, and she left Colombia to move to the US. During her time in Colombia she studied psychology which made her decide to start her business as a life coach. But while she was waiting for approval to start working as a life coach, she applied to be a substitute teacher in the elementary school where Lorenzo and Felipe both studied. Serendipitously, the nearby high school was also missing a Spanish teacher, and since she was a certified substitute teacher and was Colombian, the high school wanted her to go to begin working to become a fully certified teacher. After receiving her certification and spending much time in the classroom, she has fallen in love with this job forever.

Why does Ms. Ximena own a dog? During the time of Covid, she started to feel very lonely because she was not able to visit her family in Colombia. She traveled to Tainan with a friend one day and went into a pet store. There were many dogs there, but when she saw Yuki, it was just like with her husband; love at first sight. She brought Yuki home and cured her loneliness.

Hola, ¿Cómo estás, yo estoy bien y tú ? Ms. Ximena Dombkowski在 AST 6 年多的時間裡，以這句話讓每個人感受到她友善又尊重人的教學風格。Mr. Dombkowski 和Ms. Ximena 最初是因為希望家庭生活中有多元文化而來到台灣的，他們希望心愛的兒子們接觸台灣文化，而當他們在尋找工作機會時，AST 為他們提供了一個在台灣的工作。在閒暇時，Ms. Ximena 喜歡做 Arepas 和 Sudado 等哥倫比亞美食。她也喜歡閱讀，加入一個讀書會後，她開始愛上讀書。小時候，她喜歡曬太陽，和兩個姊姊在外面玩。她也有很多家庭聚會，這對她的生活影響很大，因為她認為家庭非常重要。

她在與摯愛 Mr. D結婚後開始從事教學工作，並離開哥倫比亞移居美國。在哥倫比亞期間，她修習了心理學，這使她決定以人生教練的身份開始她的工作。但在等待批准擔任生活教練的過程中，她申請成為兒子Lorenzo 和Felipe都曾就讀的小學的代課老師。偶然地，附近的高中也缺少一位西班牙語老師，由於她是一名合格的代課老師並且是哥倫比亞人，所以高中希望她去工作，成為一名完全合格的老師。在獲得認證後並教了許多課之後，她就深深的愛上了這份工作。

為什麼Ms. Ximena會養狗呢？她養狗是因為在疫情期間，她感到非常孤獨，因為她無法去探望她在哥倫比亞的家人。有一天，她和朋友去台南旅行，走進一家有許多狗的寵物店，當她一看到Yuki時，就像當初遇到她的丈夫時一樣的一見鍾情，於是她就把Yuki帶回家，治癒了她的孤獨。
陳亞禾 (‘29), 何柏翰 ('29) 撰稿