1. What is the most important part of the Spanish trips you take your class on?

“The trips we go on for all the languages the most important part is usually the immersion in the culture. Usually, we go somewhere where the languages spoken so that you can see how the people live in those areas. It is also important that students are using language in context, so it’s really important for them to be able to see what they’re studying in our classes and how to use that in the real world. Last year, we started the trip to Peru and that trip was really service-based, so we really liked that trip because of that. Students could use their language skills and provide a service to the community. I thought that was really special trip that we want to keep going.”

2. Did you watch the Oscars and did you have any opinions on the winners?

“I did not watch it, but I heard that Moonlight was the winner of the best picture. I have not watched Moonlight, but I want to see it. I have heard that it’s about an African American that was also part of the LGBT community, and it was really awesome that a movie about such a personal topic that not all people are comfortable with won the best picture. I’m glad there weren’t any politics involved in this because behind-the-scenes politics is always going on.”

3. Have you ever broken a bone? If so, how?

“When I was 18, I broke my leg because I fell off my friend’s porch. To my credit, they were renovating the porch. There were no porch lights at the time, so I was just kind of walking blindly and fell off. Another time I broke my bone was when I was at school before it actually started and I was standing on a desk and putting stuff on the walls and I fell off of the desk and broke my elbow.”

4. What were you like in high school?

“I’d like to say I was smart. I took AP classes and stuff, but I was always that difficult kid. I didn’t want to do what the teachers wanted me to do. I thought I was really rebellious. I would do the minimum of something and do what I would have to do to get a 90. I wouldn’t go above and beyond. I always made teacher’s lives difficult, which is interesting because I’m a teacher now. I was on the debate team and the student council and I liked that, but I just didn’t like high school at all.”

5. What did you want to be when you were a kid?

“When I was little kid, I wanted to be a singer, but my parents told me that I was a terrible singer so they killed my dreams early.”