Who am I?

Hello! My name is Rachel Aseltine. I was born in Carson City, Nevada, a long time ago. This is what Carson City looks like:




































And these are the kinds of things you find in Carson City:






























Well, technically this spider car is in Moundhouse (see, it says it on the license plate!), which is actually the town where I spent my first two years of life. It is a tiny little place nestled in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which are what I miss the most about Nevada.

So when I was still a wee child, my parents packed my brother, my sister and our nanny Ma Win Kyi (MA-WIN-JEE) up and we all moved together to Bangkok, Thailand. There I started school at Ruamrudee International School, where father was the high school principal and my mother was a high school teacher of English literature and US History.

This was the logo of the school I went to in Bangkok. It is an International School with around 1700 students. I have fond memories of exploring the campus, seeing peacocks roaming around freely, and spending lots of time reading Roald Dahl novels in the library.


I lived in Thailand for two periods of three years, between which I spent one year living in a tiny town called Tongduchon near the northern border of South Korea, and one year living in Reno, Nevada. That was the only year that I ever went to public school in my life, and the only significant amount of time that I spent in the United States during my childhood.

Then one day, we moved to China. Beijing, China, to be exact. I went to a small school called Beijing BISS International School.