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Moving to Germany: At a young age I moved from America to Europe where I can recall my first accounts of literacy in my life.

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Moving to Germany: At a young age I moved from America to Europe where I can recall my first accounts of literacy in my life.

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First memory of Elementary School: Starting school I was enrolled into a German school as my mom wanted me to be a part of their culture and learn the language.

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First memory of Elementary School: Starting school I was enrolled into a German school as my mom wanted me to be a part of their culture and learn the language.

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Here I was immersed as a young kid into a school instructed fully in German learning German as my first language. I learned so fast that my own mother had to go to language school to understand her own kids!

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Here I was immersed as a young kid into a school instructed fully in German learning German as my first language. I learned so fast that my own mother had to go to language school to understand her own kids!

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Education: Here I learned how to speak the language and how to carry conversations as my mother would tell me we loved to talk to anyone and everyone who would listen. It was uncommon for kids like me to speak German so well so we captured the hearts of locals. After practice makes perfect!

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Education: Here I learned how to speak the language and how to carry conversations as my mother would tell me we loved to talk to anyone and everyone who would listen. It was uncommon for kids like me to speak German so well so we captured the hearts of locals. After practice makes perfect!

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Music! Music was huge help in learning literacy in any language. 

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Music! Music was huge help in learning literacy in any language. 

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Moving back to America: After nearly five years in Europe my family and I would move back to America. Here I would start a new journey of literacy in American culture.

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Moving back to America: After nearly five years in Europe my family and I would move back to America. Here I would start a new journey of literacy in American culture.

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4th grade-6th grade: Transitioning from German to  English took some major adapting as the culture shock also hit me like a bus.

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4th grade-6th grade: Transitioning from German to  English took some major adapting as the culture shock also hit me like a bus.

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I recall struggling to understand how things were expressed here rather than Europe such as jokes and riddles. I was hard for me to pick up on the slang here. Another factor that would be introduced is the learning of Spanish.

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I recall struggling to understand how things were expressed here rather than Europe such as jokes and riddles. I was hard for me to pick up on the slang here. Another factor that would be introduced is the learning of Spanish.

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I had family members and a mom who spoke spanish around me 24/7 in which they taught me through multimodal ways of learning. Tv shows and children's books were a big part of it.

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I had family members and a mom who spoke spanish around me 24/7 in which they taught me through multimodal ways of learning. Tv shows and children's books were a big part of it.

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Elementary school recap: Here I found my love for reading and other languages as I realized reading in not only one language but several was amazing. I loved Junnie B Jones books along with any science documentary I could get my hands on.

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Elementary school recap: Here I found my love for reading and other languages as I realized reading in not only one language but several was amazing. I loved Junnie B Jones books along with any science documentary I could get my hands on.

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Junior High: We moved to the hot state of Arizona where I would go to 6th-8th grade at. I was sufficient at speaking English as my parents provided me with any support I needed.

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Junior High: We moved to the hot state of Arizona where I would go to 6th-8th grade at. I was sufficient at speaking English as my parents provided me with any support I needed.

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Junior High: My years of improving my forming of paragraphs on paper, spelling, punctuation and so much more. I read more and wrote a ton to get better.

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Junior High: My years of improving my forming of paragraphs on paper, spelling, punctuation and so much more. I read more and wrote a ton to get better.

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High School: In the 9th grade I would further my love for writing as I was introduced to my first film and journalism class.  I learned that writing could also be writing a story board for a film.

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High School: In the 9th grade I would further my love for writing as I was introduced to my first film and journalism class.  I learned that writing could also be writing a story board for a film.

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Overall in high school I recall sharpening my essay writing skills and working incredibly hard to improve my creative writing as well. I learned that literacy is not just on paper it is all being able to write different types of educational essays on a range of important topics on computers too.  I learned how to argue and keep my curiosity alive and debate. 

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Overall in high school I recall sharpening my essay writing skills and working incredibly hard to improve my creative writing as well. I learned that literacy is not just on paper it is all being able to write different types of educational essays on a range of important topics on computers too.  I learned how to argue and keep my curiosity alive and debate. 

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Literacy was a huge, complicated, diverse journey for me and it inspired me to pursue my further education to be a Secondary Education English teacher. I hope to teach ESL students across the world English and maybe even inspire others to love their literacy journey.

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Literacy was a huge, complicated, diverse journey for me and it inspired me to pursue my further education to be a Secondary Education English teacher. I hope to teach ESL students across the world English and maybe even inspire others to love their literacy journey.