Nice to meet you! This is my 8th year teaching and my third year here at North High School, and I love it here! I have taught both English and Spanish, and I spent many years before that working at the Phoenix Zoo! I learned Spanish in high school first, and afterward I studied in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  I love to travel and  I have visited Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, and Nicaragua, France, Canada, Thailand, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy, Scotland, Denmark, England, Ireland, Belgium, Haiti, St. Martin, Australia, and Ghana in Africa. Aside from English and Spanish, I speak German and a language called "Twi" which is from a small part of Africa where I worked in an orphanage for six months. I would like to learn Italian and Portuguese and I am always studying them a little bit! I really think that learning languages is fun and I hope you will, too.