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I grew up in the West Island as the eldest of two children in a bilingual family.
Teaching portfolio biography
As a child, I loved everything that had to do with school, and I often played the role of a teacher when my friends and I played Classroom. Around age 8, I decided that I wanted to be a teacher, but as the years went by, I strayed from my path, studying Music and Science in CEGEP, only to come back to my original belief upon completing my double DEC in 2012.
I believe that the defining experience that made me realize, as an adult, that I truly wanted to teach and work with people above all else was a study trip to Nicaragua that I participated in in 2010-2011.
This trip was open to Vanier College students from all programs and the goal was to do some charity work and spend three weeks learning about the lives, culture, and circumstances of people living in impoverished rural Nicaragua.
We stayed in a densely populated village that was about four hours from the nearest city and spent