Importance Of My Love For Foreign Education

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When I was a child there were many jobs that I imagined myself doing in the future. I thought I could become a doctor, a veterinarian, an hairdresser or even a singer. Never would I have thought that teaching was what I would have fallen in love with, and that happened because of my love for foreign languages. I have been studying them since I was a child. In fact, in Italy you start apprehending English at elementary school. I then learned Spanish and French in high school and, at the end of it, I realized that I wanted to follow a path similar to that at University, which is the reason why I decided to graduate in Japanese . It became my second love, Japanese, right after English, but let me go a little bit back in time. Not only English …show more content…
I met many brilliant professors during my academic life, but it was my high school English teacher that helped me see my future. Not only could she make her subject seem appealing to me, but I could also taste how much she loved it, that is what helped something in me to click. She used to teach in a way that could help you grasp how much she loved that language, which led you to love it too, and that is what I want to do. I want to inject my love for foreign languages into other people’s hearts. Even though I realized that during my high school years, I never thought I could actually be able to do it, up until a few months ago. As I have already said, I became aware of the fact that I could have the ability to become a teacher a few months ago. It happened during my year abroad at Tohoku University, in Japan. At the beginning of the …show more content…
I hope you found it interesting but mostly, I hope you found me interesting. There are not many 22 years olds who have super powers(I consider speaking five languages my super power). Maybe I could give you something different and you could give me what I desire the most. So, why not pick me rather than someone

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