WHY TEACH??

Why I want to teach?  Ever since the age that I figured out I can't be a fire truck or a tiger, I had wanted to be a professional hockey player, like most young boys growing up, playing hockey in Canada.  As I grew older that dream faded, as reality sunk in and I wasn't Wayne Gretzky, though I can say I portrayed Doug Risebrough in Keep Your Head up Kid: the Don Cherry Story, which would be the closest I ever come!  It would probably be in middle years and high school that I started figuring out that I would like to be a teacher, I enjoyed watching my younger cousin grow and thought it would be a good profession, and SUMMERS OFF, WOOO HOOO! 

After high school, I took some time to just have fun, working terrible part-time jobs and hanging out with friends.  When I applied for University the first thing I wanted to do was become a teacher, but the first two years my grades sucked so I gave up on that and just floated around taking a bunch of random courses which had nothing to do with anything.  As I mentioned before my grandma died in 2005 and I crashed completely.  It was two more years of failing and borderline depression, then I realized I could be so much more.  Inspired by a few things I went back on course to become a teacher. 

Now as I'm almost a teacher I can tell you that:
1. I want to make a difference, and have the same impact on kids as some teachers and my grandma had on me.
2. I look forward to the challenges and rewards that come along with being a teacher.
3. I'm a kid at heart and my hearts in kids.