-: Well, the University of Toledo was my go-to
to get my alternative teaching license
for the state of Ohio.
It was required that I be able to test
and to test intermediate-high
on both written and oral abilities by the,
I mentioned ACTFL,
the American Council of Teaching of Foreign Languages.
So I had to come back to UT
to take the Spanish because it had been like 20 years
since I had been using Spanish,
had been in a Spanish classroom and academic,
other than teaching it.
So I needed to get the credentials,
and so UT gave me the credentials that I needed,
gave me the support.
The professors were stellar.
My Spanish professors taught me everything I ever
would ever need to know (laughing) about the language,
about the culture, about Latin American history,
literature, everything.