mark.golden2@juno.com
I graduated in 1998. After graduating, I spent a few years traveling around the U.S. I spent one year working with Mexican 6th and 7th graders as a bilingual teacher's assistant. I later traveled to China to study martial arts. I happened to meet my "wife to be" on the airplane. We have a 5-year-old daughter, Mariana. Along the way, I managed to get two graduate degrees in business. I currently own two wine/liquor stores in Boston.
My Spanish studies have certainly helped me in several circumstances. The knowledge attained from learning another language and understanding another culture has helped me to communicate better with people from many different cultures and backgrounds. For example, my wife is from China. She learned English as a second language. She says that I was the first person she met in America that truly understood her. Since I studied another language, I was able to understand the difficulties in expression via a second language and work through those difficulties.