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Hello there! This is Nathaly and I´m more than glad to welcome you to my Blog!

I´ll start off by telling you a little bit about me. I love cats, English, and coffee. I´m really passionate about English and I truly admire teachers, I feel inspired by the way they taught me, so I really feel that being a teacher is a great profession. My mom is a teacher and I always wondered what was behind her classes and why it seemed so easy for her to explain and make people understand concepts and engage. I´m quite excited now that I´m taking English Didactics because many things start to make sense.

 I feel really attracted to interpretation, that´s the area I want to grow in; however, I am open to the experience of teaching English. Actually, I worked as an English teacher all last year long,  teaching 5-11-year-old kids, it was very empirical, to be honest, I loved every activity in the classroom, loved the kids and how week after week they showed improvement, that was rewarding, but handing in monthly reports was a  challenge. With these classes, I feel like I will be more prepared, will have more knowledge and tools to feel less overwhelmed about teaching.


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