Meet The Teachers

Administration

What is your birthday?
January 11
Where are you from?
Washington State, Texas, Utah
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
The Beach, Disneyworld, Disneyland, Universal Orlando
What is your favorite movie?
What’s up doc?,   It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
What is your favorite book?
Harry Potter, Jane Austen books
What is your favorite restaurant?
Bombay house, Spicy Thai, Mi Ranchito
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Kohls, JJill, Walmart, Smiths 
What is your favorite dessert?
Strawberry pie, fruit tarts, brownies 
What’s your favorite hobby?
Garden, cooking and baking, reading, sewing
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Bagging groceries 
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
My senior year in high school I was in a pageant and won! I got to be part of the Washington State Apple Blossom Royalty. We traveled around the state and Canada to represent the Apple industry in Washington, rode on floats in parades, and spoke at civic clubs. We also got scholarships for college! 

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What is your birthday?
March 6
Where are you from?
All over (Father in Air Force) OR, AK, VA, MT, CO, MI, WA
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Cedar City—to see my grandkids otherwise England/Scotland
What is your favorite movie?
Pride and Prejudice 
What is your favorite book?
I read nearly a book a day—hard to choose
What is your favorite restaurant?
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Where is your favorite place to shop?
Barnes & Noble or Seagull Book
What is your favorite dessert?
Sugar-free cookies 
What’s your favorite hobby?
Music
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Loved them all
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I write children’s books.

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What is your birthday?
February 2
Where are you from?
A small town called Hoopeston in Illinois.
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Anywhere as long as I’m with my family.
What is your favorite movie?
Ever After
What is your favorite book?
Jane Eyre
What is your favorite restaurant?
If I don’t have to cook, I’m happy to eat almost anywhere.
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Amazon
What is your favorite dessert?
Brownie
What’s your favorite hobby?
Gardening
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Telemarketing. I lasted there for about a day.
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I’m shy and tongue tied when talking to people sometimes.

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What is your birthday?
Where are you from?
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
What is your favorite movie?
What is your favorite book?
What is your favorite restaurant?
Where is your favorite place to shop?
What is your favorite dessert?
What’s your favorite hobby?
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?

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Teachers

What is your birthday?
March 5
Where are you from?
South Jordan, UT
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Pensacola Beach, FL
What is your favorite movie?
How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days
What is your favorite book?
I don’t have one favorite.  There are so many good books!
What is your favorite restaurant?
Costa Vida or Chick-fil-a
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Target
What is your favorite dessert?
Popcorn or chocolate
What’s your favorite hobby?
Hiking, cooking, embroidery
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Office Assistant
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I am not a big fan of any pets, except for fish. 

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What is your birthday?
November 9
Where are you from?
Arizona
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Hawaii
What is your favorite movie?
Don’t Have One
What is your favorite book?
Book of Mormon
What is your favorite restaurant?
Got Sushi
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Amazon
What is your favorite dessert?
Don’t like desserts really
What’s your favorite hobby?
Pickleball & Cycling
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Never had one that was the worst.
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
That I write and illustrate my own children’s books that are published on Amazon under Debbie Smith Books.

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What is your birthday?
March 1
Where are you from?
California
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Prince Edward Island
What is your favorite movie?
An Affair to Remember
What is your favorite book?
So many…To Kill a Mockingbird (Children’s: Pink and Say.)
What is your favorite restaurant?
Pig’s Ear American Bistro, in Hurricane.
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Thriftbooks.com
What is your favorite dessert?
Apple pie a la mode
What’s your favorite hobby?
Creating: art, drawing or scrapbooking
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
None
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
In high school I was the Drill Team colonel and marched in parades in So. Calif.

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What is your birthday?
October 3
Where are you from?
Belgium and Rwanda
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
New Orléans, Louisiana 
What is your favorite movie?
Coming to America
What is your favorite book?
7 habits of highly effective people
What is your favorite restaurant?
Red Lobster
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Macys or Dillards
What is your favorite dessert?
Limon cheesecake 
What’s your favorite hobby?
Dancing
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Cleaning offices
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I was a refugee twice in my life.

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What is your birthday?
Where are you from?
California
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Monterey Bay, California
What is your favorite movie?
The Sound of Music–SO many favorites!
What is your favorite book?
The Secret Garden–but I have SO many!
What is your favorite restaurant?
India Palace
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Barnes and Noble
What is your favorite dessert?
Baskin Robbins Chocolate Mousse Royale and Peanut Butter and Chocolate
What’s your favorite hobby?
Dancing
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Every job has taught me something valuable, so I cannot name a “worst”.
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
That I am a grandmother with 4 grandchildren as of 2021.

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What is your birthday?
February 1
Where are you from?
Springville, Utah
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Where ever the grandkids are
What is your favorite movie?
Runaway Bride
What is your favorite book?
A Wrinkle in Time
What is your favorite restaurant?
Mi Ranchito
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Amazon
What is your favorite dessert?
Cheesecake
What’s your favorite hobby?
Reading
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Teaching at a charter school
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I can play the viola.

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What is your birthday?
December 28
Where are you from?
Provo, UT
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
The east coast of the US
What is your favorite movie?
Letters to Juliette
What is your favorite book?
There are so many! 
What is your favorite restaurant?
Brick Oven
What is your favorite dessert?
Ice Cream

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What is your birthday?
October 23
Where are you from?
Barcelona, Spain
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
The Beach
What is your favorite movie?
Anything Jane Austen (I know, I know…)
What is your favorite book?
Anything Jane Austen (I know, I know…)
What is your favorite restaurant?
Kneaders, Cafe Rio, Zupas
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Target
What is your favorite dessert?
Fruit, herbal tea
What’s your favorite hobby?
Reading, hiking
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
When I was a teen: piano lessons to kids that were only 2-3 years younger than me and that didn’t want to learn any piano, but their parents made them… horrible!
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I was a French immersion student in Spain, I went to a French immersion school when I was young.

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What is your birthday?
March 24
What is your favorite movie?
Onward, Brother Bear, Meet The Robinsons, you know, those animated children’s movies that make you cry! 
What is your favorite book?
The One And Only Bob, The One And Only Ivan 
What is your favorite restaurant?
Cafe Rio
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Amazon
What is your favorite dessert?
Candy and Ice Cream
What’s your favorite hobby?
Playing with my dogs

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What is your birthday?
December 18
Where are you from?
Grew up in Spanish Fork
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Disneyland and the National Parks-so far!
What is your favorite movie?
The Sound of Music
What is your favorite book?
Harry Potter Series
What is your favorite restaurant?
Cafe Rio
Where is your favorite place to shop?
TJ Maxx
What is your favorite dessert?
Brownies
What’s your favorite hobby?
Reading
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
I was a “pooper scooper” at a dog competition!
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I’ve hiked “Rim to Rim” of the Grand Canyon.

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What is your birthday?
June 11
Where are you from?
Graduated from Bear River High School in Tremonton.  I have lived in Provo for 25 years.
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
The Beach!
What is your favorite movie?
The Proposal, 50 First Dates
What is your favorite book?
Harry Potter Deathly Hallows, The Da Vinci Code
What is your favorite restaurant?
Chili’s, Cheesecake Factory
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Costco!!!
What is your favorite dessert?
Cold Stone, Founder’s Favorite
What’s your favorite hobby?
Cooking, Playing Games, Hanging with my family and Tennis
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
None!  I like earning money!
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
Can’t think of anything

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What is your birthday?
September 7
Where are you from?
South Korea
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Hawaii 
What is your favorite movie?
Interstellar 
What is your favorite book?
The Lord of the Rings 
What is your favorite restaurant?
Bam Bamd BBQ
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Amazon
What is your favorite dessert?
Tiramisu Cake 
What’s your favorite hobby?
Traveling, Gardening 
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
None
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
Lived in Costa Rica 

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What is your birthday?
March 5
Where are you from?
Tours, France
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Northern California, France, Sweden, Iceland, Oregon, Utah
What is your favorite movie?
I love cinema!! Small Change (François Truffaut, 1976), Woman At War (Benedikt Erlingsson, 2018),  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964), The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011), Mustang ( Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015), Good Morning (Yasujirô Ozu, 1959)…
What is your favorite book?
Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer)
What is your favorite restaurant?
Mozz, Bombay House, Communal
Where is your favorite place to shop?
I don’t enjoy shopping that much…
What is your favorite dessert?
Seasonal fruits
What’s your favorite hobby?
Hiking, yoga, reading, walking in a big city, swimming, canoeing, kayaking, watching films 
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Flipping burgers for the mafia in England
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I was a rock climber in college.

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What is your birthday?
January 26
Where are you from?
Thousand Oaks, CA
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Hawaii, Lake Powell
What is your favorite movie?
Xanadu
What is your favorite book?
Emma
What is your favorite restaurant?
Rodizio Grill
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Amazon
What is your favorite dessert?
Cheesecake
What’s your favorite hobby?
Gardening and eating
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Clearing tables at a buffet in Hawaii.
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
My heritage is from South Africa and I have a birthmark in the shape of Africa on my leg.

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What is your birthday?
Where are you from?
Austria
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Istambul
What is your favorite movie?
Documentaries
What is your favorite book?
Many! one is Far From the Madding Crowd
What is your favorite restaurant?
Carraba’s 
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Banana Republic
What is your favorite dessert?
yoghurt and fruit
What’s your favorite hobby?
hiking, knitting, reading, quilting, painting 
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Salesperson in a clothing store 
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I like horseback riding. 

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What is your birthday?
March 28
Where are you from?
The Midwest—Iowa, Ohio, Illinois; Montana & California
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Anywhere my family is going.
What is your favorite movie?
Too many great ones to choose a favorite.
What is your favorite book?
2 that stand out amongst the many great ones, are Les Miserables and Uncle Toms Cabin.
What is your favorite restaurant?
Cafe Rio, Brick Oven, & really any or all of them.
Where is your favorite place to shop?
I don’t really shop. I hate shopping, so no favorite really.
What is your favorite dessert?
Ice cream, cookies, & brownies
What’s your favorite hobby?
I love watching a good movie, but also love hiking, being outdoors, & playing with my grandsons.
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Hmmm, I’ve never had a worst job. They’ve all been pretty great.
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I was a whitewater rafting guide.

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What is your birthday?
Where are you from?
Lehi, UT
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Florida
What is your favorite movie?
Beauty and the Beast (live action)
What is your favorite book?
Wonder
What is your favorite restaurant?
Costa Vida
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Target
What is your favorite dessert?
Tres Leches or cheesecake
What’s your favorite hobby?
Playing volleyball
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
I was a packout assembly line worker for a health supplement company
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I graduated high school with my associates. 

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What is your birthday?
January 9
Where are you from?
Ukraine (originally) 
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
England
What is your favorite movie?
Judgement of Nuremberg 
What is your favorite book?
Magna Carta by Dan Jones
What is your favorite restaurant?
Olive Garden
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Amazon
What is your favorite dessert?
Chocolate
What’s your favorite hobby?
Learning languages
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
I only had great jobs. Sorry! 
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I can’t swim.

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What is your birthday?
November 20
Where are you from? 
I grew up in Shelley, Idaho. (small farming community near Idaho Falls)
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation? 
U.S. National Parks & Ireland
What is your favorite movie? 
Hmmm, not sure – The Sound of Music?  Hoosiers?
What is your favorite book? 
I don’t think I have one favorite, but I do like almost anything by David McCullough or Charles Dickens. 
What is your favorite restaurant? 
Fresca’s Mexican Grill, Kneaders
Where is your favorite place to shop? 
What is your favorite dessert? 
Something with pumpkin (pumpkin pie, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies . . .)
What’s your favorite hobby? 
hiking, reading
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had? 
I think I have enjoyed my jobs because I’ve always had fun people to work with, but working in a potato factory during the summers (yep, I’m from Idaho) to earn money for college was probably the least interesting.
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you? 
My high school mascot was a potato.

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What is your birthday?
June 5
Where are you from?
Syracuse UT
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
I haven’t traveled much but I want to do more! I really like Midway, UT
What is your favorite movie?
Little Women (2019)
What is your favorite book?
The Help
What is your favorite restaurant?
Costa Vida
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Target!
What is your favorite dessert?
Cheesecake
What’s your favorite hobby?
art and music
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Shipping manager in a warehouse
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I know every word of the musical Hamilton

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What is your birthday?
March 17
Where are you from?
Helper, UT
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Beach
What is your favorite movie?
Any Comedy
What is your favorite book?
Pride and Prejudice 
What is your favorite restaurant?
I love all food, but Olive Garden and outback are high on the list 
Where is your favorite place to shop?
TJ Maxx
What is your favorite dessert?
Ice cream
What’s your favorite hobby?
Painting 
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
None
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I have hitchhiker thumbs.

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What is your birthday?
November 17
Where are you from?
Raised in Geneva, Switzerland.  Have lived in Provo for 30 years.
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Love to travel anywhere but visit Switzerland and France every few years.
What is your favorite movie?
City Slickers
What is your favorite book?
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger 
What is your favorite restaurant?
Have a few: Bombay House, Thai Silver Dish, Shoots
Where is your favorite place to shop?
TJ Maxx
What is your favorite dessert?
Tiramisu, anything chocolate 
What’s your favorite hobby?
Watching movies, quilting
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Cannot think of one; all my jobs taught me something, even my first job at McDonald’s.
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
Born in the Netherlands, in my parents’ VW camper.

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What is your birthday?
January 22
Where are you from?
Orem
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Camping (my dream vacation would be Harry Potter World in Florida)
What is your favorite movie?
Harry Potter or Pride and Prejudice 
What is your favorite book?
Harry Potter 
What is your favorite restaurant?
180 Taco, Olive Garden,  Me Ranchitos or  Mo’Bettahs
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Target, Amazon or Walmart 
What is your favorite dessert?
Tres leche, cupcakes, cookies 
What’s your favorite hobby?
Camping, hiking, Jeepin 
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Helping my dad with construction work. 
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
All 3 of my kids share the same birth date.

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What is your birthday?
September 3
Where are you from?
France
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Casablanca
What is your favorite movie?
Trinita
What is your favorite book?
Mon bel oranger
What is your favorite restaurant?
Japanese
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Costco
What is your favorite dessert?
Mousse au chocolat 
What’s your favorite hobby?
Soccer

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What is your birthday?
January 20
Where are you from?
Roosevelt, UT
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
The Beach
What is your favorite movie?
Blazing Saddles
What is your favorite book?
Harry Potter Book 3
What is your favorite restaurant?
Outback Steakhouse
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Walmart
What is your favorite dessert?
Chocolate
What’s your favorite hobby?
Movies
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Graveyard gas attendant
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I’m actually a nice guy.
(Totally Agreed!)

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What is your birthday?
November 14
Where are you from?
Southern California
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Finland and the U.K.
What is your favorite movie?
Cars
What is your favorite book?
Harry Potter
What is your favorite restaurant?
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Amazon
What is your favorite dessert?
Ice Cream
What’s your favorite hobby?
Baking
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
McDonalds
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
This year is my 31st year of teaching.

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What is your birthday?
February 26
Where are you from?
Long Beach , CA
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Sun Valley
What’s your favorite hobby?
Cycling

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Specialties

What is your birthday?
December 12
Where are you from?
Las Vegas area
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Newport Beach
What is your favorite movie?
Mamma Mia 2
What is your favorite book?
Pride and Prejudice 
What is your favorite restaurant?
Don Chuy’s Taco Shop
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Barnes and Noble
What is your favorite dessert?
Anything chocolate
What’s your favorite hobby?
Reading or painting
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
I’ve never had a job I didn’t like!
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I’ve never eaten ice cream; I don’t like most frozen foods

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Where are you from?
Michigan and Delaware
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Anywhere peaceful and outdoors
What is your favorite movie?
Emma
What is your favorite book?
Too many to choose, Lord of the Rings or nonfiction about nature
What is your favorite restaurant?
Guru’s 
What is your favorite dessert?
English trifle 
What’s your favorite hobby?
Music, baking bread, exercise, and identifying wild plants
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Printing warehouse
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I’ve had a poem published in an actual magazine (Women’s Exponent II)

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What is your birthday?
July 16
Where are you from?
Vienna, Virginia (just outside of Washington DC.)
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Europe
What is your favorite movie?
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 
What is your favorite book?
Harry Potter
What is your favorite restaurant?
Cafe Rio
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Target
What is your favorite dessert?
Chocolate Chip Cookies
What’s your favorite hobby?
Riding my electric bike and reading (of course).
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Telemarketing
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I worked in a Las Vegas casino before I took my first teaching job. 

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What is your birthday?
November 16
Where are you from?
Salem UT
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
Anywhere warm and with a beach (warm water though Altantic Ocean)
What is your favorite movie?
Romantic Comedies
What is your favorite book?
Walk Too Moons – by Sharon Creech
What is your favorite restaurant?
Spicy Thai
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Amazon!
What is your favorite dessert?
Chocolate Cake
What’s your favorite hobby?
Shopping! and watercolor painting
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Picking rotten cherries off of a conveyer belt for 12 hour shifts. Blah!
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I have 7 brothers and 1 sister. I graduated with a BS in Psychology to become a counselor, but got my elementary teaching degree a couple of years later. And just finished with a Master’s in Art Education. I’ve had a different path to becoming the art teacher.

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What is your birthday?
September 28
Where are you from?
Mitchell, SD
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
National Parks 
What is your favorite movie?
Remember the Titans
What is your favorite book?
Harry Potter
What is your favorite restaurant?
Guru’s
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Target
What is your favorite dessert?
Chocolate covered strawberries 
What’s your favorite hobby?
Reading and swimming
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Sales for a company that sold anti-virus software. I am a terrible salesman. 🙂
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I was a captain for my high school’s show choir 

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What is your birthday?
May 27
Where are you from?
CT
Where is your favorite place to travel/vacation?
We just went to Hawaii!
What is your favorite movie?
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
What is your favorite book?
The Giver
What is your favorite restaurant?
Rockwells Ice Cream 
Where is your favorite place to shop?
Old Navy
What is your favorite dessert?
Anything gluten free!
What’s your favorite hobby?
Playing with my dog
What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Hostess at Olive Garden
What is something that most people would be surprised to learn about you?
I know ASL!