A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
ME
My name is Bill, and I'm a 47 year old
Spanish teacher. I was born and raised in the suburbs of
Cleveland, Ohio.
I am a veteran of 27 years of high school
teaching. I'm not going to get on a soap box about the
state of American education; I have seen a lot of changes in those 27 years, and not all of them for the better. I
am looking forward to retirement in three years.
I do not regret having become a teacher. I
have had many wonderful years as an educator, and I hope
that I have in some small way touched the lives of the
thousands of students that have passed through my
classroom. Even if most of them have forgotten the Spanish
they learned, I hope that I opened their eyes to the world
in which they live and made them more tolerant toward other
peoples and cultures.
Obviously, one of my greatest pleasures is
to travel. I have been to Mexico more than twenty times.
My first trip was way back in 1973. I spent the winter
quarter of my junior year of college at the University of
the Americas in Cholula, Mexico. I fell in love with the
country. I have made many friends in Mexico, and, thus,
have had the opportunity to visit their homes, join in
their family celebrations, and see a side of the country
that the typical tourist does not get to
see.
My other travels have taken me to Spain,
Puerto Rico, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, and Brazil. I have
also traveled quite a bit throughout the United States and
Canada. The most unforgettable place I have ever visited
is Machu Picchu, the ruins of the "lost city of the Incas"
in the Andes Mountains of Peru. My favorite places in the
U.S. are Mackinac Island, Michigan, and the Colorado
Rockies.
My other interests include reading, classical music, painting (I dabble at landscape painting), gardening, and cooking (my specialty is "chilaquiles", a Mexican dish).
