Ever since I was a child, I knew that I wanted to be a teacher. Until recently, I did not know that I wanted to be a music teacher. When I was little, I loved helping my friends through hard work or teaching them how to do something. In the fifth grade, I started to play my first instrument, the trombone. I instantly fell in love with how fun it was to learn a new piece of music and the joy of correctly playing a hard composition. In the sixth grade, I switched instruments to the tuba. When I got into high school, I was amazed at how well the seniors played. One of them was going into playing tuba professionally and another student was going into education. I made it a goal to be as good as or better than they were by the time I was a senior
