The Accidental Señora

 "You're going to be the next Senora Clark."  That was a phrase I would hear through most of my high school career.  I took easily to the Spanish language after not having much interaction or exposure to it.  It clicked in my head.  I am not Math minded and definitely was not as a kid but somehow, Spanish was logical to me.  The conjugations made sense and I followed the logic of the grammar rules easily.  I'm a bit of an enigma in that basic Math concepts elude me but the mathematical process of employing gender rules of agreement and conjugation of verbs in all tenses is something I could do in my sleep.  It took some time to learn the vocabulary but even that was not a huge struggle.  I suppose as my classmates sat in our Spanish 1 class and I was rattling off phrases like it was nothing probably did come across as weird.  I loved the sound of the language and how different it was from English.  I will say that my English was and...

 I'm Kim and I am an accidental senora.  Born and raised in New Jersey, I had no way of knowing that I would become a Spanish teacher nonetheless maintain the longevity of a 30 year career.  I was raised in an English speaking household with a mom who studied Latin for her nursing program and a father who to this day, is surprised that I speak the language that he affectionately thinks is "English with an o on the end".  My first memory of hearing Spanish came when I was in elementary school and Grover on Sesame Street was illustrating the words "abierto" and "cerrado" by opening and closing a door after he would run through it.  I can still hear his little monster growl as he said the words.  That was my official introduction into Spanish.  It would be many years later that I would study it in high school.  Senora Clark was my first teacher and all I can say is that I was hooked from the very first "Hola".  I loved everything about the class...