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**Professor Demesmin's Intermediate Spanish Class**




 * Why I Truly Love Teaching Spanish? **

My name is Dennowettha Demesmin and I am currently a student at UCF pursuing bachelor degrees in both Spanish and Foreign Language Education-Spanish and a certification in Spanish Translation & Interpretation. I am a mother of a beautiful 10 month old baby boy and will have been married to my loving husband for three years this upcoming July 8th. Family is very important to me and I value the education that is being provided to children. I feel that teachers should be passionate about their jobs because we have the privilege of educating young minds and making a difference in their lives.

Although I do plan to possibly work in the Interpretation and Translation field, my true passion is teaching. I have always been an overachiever who loved to help classmates who were either confused, not motivated enough, or just needed a little extra help. I found my two passions by mistake. Well actually, they found me; which definitely tells me that teaching Spanish is what I'm meant to do.

I originally signed up for a French class my junior year of high school and accidentally was put into a Spanish class. As an effort to avoid falling behind while waiting a couple weeks or so for a schedule change, I decided to stay in the Spanish class in order to fulfill my Foreign Language requirements. Surprisingly, I began to love the language as I learned it. In regards to education and teaching, I originally was majoring in Criminal Justice and minoring in Spanish during my first year of college in order to become a criminal defense attorney. After questioning all the time, financial means, and effort it would take me, I realized that if I wasn't willing to make such sacrifices, then being an attorney truly wasn't my passion. After tutoring and helping many of my peers throughout high school and still today throughout college, I found my passion: teaching.

I have always been motivated to help others who want to learn and choose to help themselves. As a result, I knew I wanted to teach young adults, like myself, who are eager to learn the language because it is also their passion or to expand their future clientele. Therefore, I decided I would teach Spanish at the post-secondary level at either a community college or university.