My love of teaching started at a very young age, when I would always be the family "babysitter" at big parties. The fact that I had 17 younger cousins guaranteed that our pretend "classrooms" were always full of pupils! As an 3rd grader, my parents enrolled me in world language classes, including French, Spanish and Latin. I excelled in this area, and know that this contributed to me being in my countywide spelling bee at the ripe age of 8! As I went through high school, I found that my u...