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Birth
Born in New York to Puerto Ricans. Spanish native tongue. They learned English after a few years. -
Listening
Listening parents speak Spanish frequently started to understand some words. -
Communicating in Spanish
Started asking with spanish commands such as: agua, dame. mama, papa, leche -
Nursery School
American system only English was spoken. -
Kindergarten
St. Sylvesters Catholic School at Chicago, Illinios only English was spoken, written and listened. Multicultural students from all over the world assited to this school. -
Mexican Babysitter
My babysitter Maria only spoke Spanish.I started speaking complete full sentences. I enjoyed spanish language too! -
Communicating and Recreation
By this time my parents practiced English with my brother , cousins and me. Games , TV programs and movies were spoken and seen in English. Kids around the block were always speaking English. -
Moving to Puerto Rico
My parents decided to come back. I didn't like the idea I loved the United States a lot. My mom started to feel sick and needed to be near our family. -
Middle School
At this moment I realized Puerto Rico didn't have schools' with good facilities but teachers were very good. -
Learning Grammar
Learning grammar and the writing process in english was kind of hard too much. I felt I wanted to go back to the United States. -
High School
Both languages were expressed, understood,written and spoken very well. I realized that my parents made a good decision to move. Things started to make sense. -
Bachelors Degree
I made a choice wanted to be a Bilingual teacher. The art of teaching came aboard on this moment. -
Bilingual Teacher
Actually I'm teaching at Bilingual School of Cidra since 2004. Happy to be a teacher!