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Hi! My name is Molly Girafalco. I am from Coatesville, Pennsylvania. I attended Millersville University and completed a semester abroad at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. After graduating, I moved to Fredericksburg, Virginia and taught Family and Consumer Science at Post Oak Middle School in Spotsylvania County for two years. I then moved back to Pennsylvania for a middle and high school Family and Consumer position in Downingtown Area School District. This is my second year at Lionville Middle School and Downingtown East High School. I love my job and am one of those crazy people that actually enjoys getting up and going to work. Well maybe not the actual getting out of bed part but I love the rest of it.

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Right now my professional goal is to work towards being the best teacher I can be and to inspire as many of my students as possible to become life-long learners.

In the future, I would like to work in international education, specifically at the collegiate level expanding and creating new study abroad programs.

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I earned my Bachelors of Science Degree in Early Childhood Education from Millersville University.

This is my second online course at Gwynedd Mercy University.

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I love to read, hike, and travel. I am an avid reader and typically read between 30 and 40 books a year.

I try to squeeze as much hiking as possible into my busy schedule. In addition to hiking locally, I have hiked all over the United States and quite a few places internationally.

I travel as much as my bank account will allow. Within in the last year I have been all throughout Germany and spent some time in Interlaken, Switzerland, and Prague, Czech Republic. I also spent some time trekking through Patagonia which is the southern regions of both Chile and Argentina and completed the famous W Trek in Torres del Paine National Park.

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I have always loved school, learning is a passion of mine and I want to try to instill that love for learning in others.

I am very passionate about helping others as well. Teaching provides an opportunity for me to help young adults each day.

Everyday teaching is a completely new experience. I could be teaching the same lesson that I taught the previous year and yet it will have a completely different outcome because it is being taught to a new set of students. Teaching requires me to constantly think "on my feet." I love having a career that is never boring and forces me to learn and adapt to new situations.