Educational Auto

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Throughout life everyone always asks themselves the same question, especially when starting college; “What do I want to be when I grow up?” For me that question always seems to have an answer: I want to be a teacher. Ever since I can remember I have wanted to be a teacher. I am not sure if it was from playing teacher as a child, realizing the impact that teachers have had on my life, or even the love of math, but the thoughts of teaching were always there.
As kids my brothers and sisters would play school in the basement. I have three sisters and three brothers so the classroom was always full. We would all gather around the little table and the teacher would write our assignments on the chalkboard. We would use our old copybooks to write in so it was just like we were in school. I always wanted to be the teacher, but being second to the youngest I sometimes got overruled. I never seriously thought then that one day I would be studying to become a teacher, I just knew that it was one of my favorite games. Even though this was my favorite game I do not think that I actually thought of being a teacher until I met my third grade teacher, Mrs. Dudash.
Up until then I had moved from school to school and had always been the new kid. I had been to four different schools already and I was ready to stay in one place. I would have to say that up until then I did not like school. Since my family and I were all over the news due to our unusual life style when I started at a new school people already “knew” me and had opinions about me. It was not until I started school at Mother of Divine Providence in the second grade that I began enjoying school. Within the first couple days of class, I met two girls that would turn out to be my best friends for six years. My first year there was fun. I met new people and made my First Holy Communion, but third grade was awesome, I had this amazing teacher, Mrs. Dudash that was so...