This is my first year at Northgate.  I teach Spanish 1 and Spanish 2.  There are a lot of things I like about teaching at Northgate:  the students are great, the other teachers and the administrators have been friendly and helpful, the school itself is very “interesting” to try to describe when I tell my friends about the place I work, and I live in Walnut Creek so it doesn’t take very long to get here every day. I graduated from Brighton High in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

An interesting anecdote about me would be the time that I took my oldest son on a trip to Peru for his high school graduation.  We did the 4-day biking/hiking Inka Trail to get to Machu Picchu, and there was one day we had to hike up and down amazing mountainsides through rainforests and groves of  pineapple, cocoa and mango trees.  We got tired and I slipped a lot on the downhills, and we stopped on the uphills several times to rest.  There were two little kids about 4 and 5 years old who lived on the mountain that followed us for an hour.  They ran up and down laughing at how slow we were, and every time one of us slipped they thought it was very funny, and they asked us why we couldn’t walk without falling.  We crossed a very rickety old hanging bridge that swayed with every step, holding our breath and holding onto the rope railing.  The little kids ran across ahead of us and crouched down to watch us and point at us as if we were the best entertainment they had ever had.  

 

Class Schedule

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1	Spanish II	54
2	Spanish I	54
3	Spanish I	54
4	Spanish I	54
5	Spanish I	54
6	Spanish I	54