I have been teaching since 2002 "officially" but I fell in love with teaching and languages long before I ever thought of becoming a Language teacher. I grew up speaking Spanish and English and when it came time to chose a language in Junior High School, I picked French because... well why not? I loved it instantly. It seemed that learning about different cultures and languages intrigued me and I realized that being bilingual facilitated my language acquisition. I continued to study both French and Italian through HS and even had the opportunity to become a tutor for my peers. I didn't think of studying Spanish until I was away at college and was majoring in English and I somehow I got a hold of some Spanish short stories and I was in love. I had a rough start because as a Native speaker I had a different way of learning my native tongue but I was willing to work at it. As I tutored student athletes in Spanish all throughout college, I became a better writer, my grammar cleaned up and I finally learned the rules behind the language I had learned from birth. All of this experience and it STILL didn't dawn on me that maybe I could be happy teaching for a living!

Upon graduating from College I went to work for Univision Communications in their NYC office. Univision is still the leading Spanish Language Network in the US. I worked with them for 3 years in the Research, Marketing and Sales Department. I learned a ton, made a lot of contacts and got a glimpse of where that career would lead. While I was inerviewing for a higher level position it dawned on me, that I didn't really want to move up as much as I wanted to move out of that field. t was then that it I knew I needed to go back to school and get my education certification. My heart was not satisfied until I got my education degree and set foot in my very own classroom. Within months I was subbing and taking classes to fulfill that dream... and here I am... a dozen+ years later, knowing that this was the best decision I ever made.