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Hello, my name is Carolyn Richard and I am 19 years old. I go to school at the University of Central Florida, and I am an Elementary Education major. I hope to become a kindergarten teacher. I have always had an interest in education, and for three years in high school I took and Early Childhood Development class. It is a class that allows the high school students to run a preschool. There are 10 3-5 year olds in the preschool and they come 3 days a week. It was really fun for me to create lesson plans and help prepare those children for kindergarten. I believe that especially at a young age, children need to be taught and nurtured appropriately, and I believe I can do that. For one of my college courses, Introduction to the Teaching Profession, I was required to do a service learning project. I got to volunteer in a kindergarten classroom and assist with the teacher. The teacher actually let me do some of the lessons she had planned and even just watching was extremely beneficial to me. This semester I am taking Spanish because while volunteering in the kindergarten classroom there was a student who only spoke Spanish, and if she did not learn English she would not pass kindergarten. This experience made me realize that it would be a lot easier to teach a Spanish speaking student English if I could understand them. My goal is to become a well rounded teacher that can teach any student enjoyably.======