Cultural Narrative: Who Am I

Cultural Narrative: Who Am I? Part I: In some ways I guess you could say I am not very cultured, in that sense there is not a wide variety of cultural influences around me. With that being said, my family still has a large assortment of different traditions we do from decorating the tree at Christmas to going up to my grandparents house for Thanksgiving and making the same dishes every year. The area I live in is just not very diverse, it never has been. I live in Alpharetta, Georgia where the majority is white people and somewhat upper class. I consider my family to be middle class but more on the upper side. We live in a nice house in a safe neighborhood near very good schools. I went to the same high school for three years before a new …show more content…
She is 26 and lives in a town near Dallas, Texas. It is extremely hard to be so far away from her but every chance I get I try and go to see her and I text and talk with her everyday. I spent this past spring break visiting her and since our spring break did not match up I sat in on her classroom while she was teaching and had such a great time. My sister was part of the reason I wanted to become a teacher. Ever since I was little I followed in her footsteps without even meaning to. We both love volleyball and played it throughout school and she went to pay it in college on a scholarship, I would have as well but got injured and could not play. I knew I was slowly starting to want to teach but almost told myself not to because I did not want to keep copying her (we both look alike and have the exact same personality). However, she started convincing me to teach and I was really enjoying my internship throughout high school where I shadowed my varsity volleyball coach who was an elementary art teacher. Between her and my sister I knew I was going to be an art teacher. I started out at Augusta State University since my parents lived there for a while and my aunt went there and really enjoyed it. The school just was not for me and I ended up transferring after my first semester freshman year. My best friend at the time was going to University of North Georgia and she really liked it so I decided to come up …show more content…
and even the students who you feel are the “favorite”, they need to be treated equally as well. It will be my biggest duty aside from enriching my student’s lives to make sure no student is left out or feels like they are unimportant or are not smart enough. I have felt all of those things while in school so I know how it feels and can sympathize with them. But the main point is to show each student just how special and important they are. Also, to make sure they are using their full potential and striving to be the best student they can be. Even though it may sound cliché, these things are very important qualities for a teacher, if a teacher has these qualities it will show and it will be evident that the teacher actually cares and to me, those are always the best teachers to