Brooklyn, NY
Master's program in Spanish Education via Spanish Teacher's Opportunity Scholarship (so much money for us out there!)
Currently, I teach Spanish to 180 Chinese adolescents and six young hispanohablantes in Chinatown. What a mix! Some of my students speak significantly better Spanish than I while the majority are still perfecting English. In college, I was repulsed and insulted at the idea of teaching (as the profession is so highly encouraged among language majors), yet now I cannot bear to leave the position. Each day, I utilize my Spanish major in a creative process by teaching the Bacchata or cooking empanadas y platanos to share. The language and the Latino culture freshly reveals itself to me each time I discover something new, each time I teach a child something I have forgotten. During my summers off (major perk), I travel to Spain and steep myself in what I truly love about speaking Spanish--the people and all they have to offer. While the Spanish major is multi-faceted in it's possibilities and teaching is possibly the most obvious and unglamorous choice of them all, the profession has grabbed my heart.