>> I decided to study abroad with Temple Summer in Brazil Program and it was really,
you know I had an idea of what I wanted to do, but it was that experience of getting
on an airplane, going in to another country, and people said, "oh, you know,
it's just like Spanish, you'll be fine."
I get there and it was not [laughter] and my luggage was lost, and you know,
all these different anxiety's that I felt and I experienced
and it was just an amazing growing experience to be outside of my comfort zone.
And, to be -- to feel like I'm a very literate person in my first language, and I'm, you know,
coming here and you know, I am reading toddler books, and it really -- it changed me.
So then, I really then knew that I loved the process of learning language.
And then, it was from there I came back.
I graduated from Temple.
I taught some adult ESL classes and I really loved it.
I enjoyed working with them, but I said that I wanted to then work with younger students,
with children, so that's when I went back and got my Master's Degree
and came back to Philadelphia, so.