Hello, my name is Kelsey Deptuck and I was raised in a small town called Rosthern Saskatchewan. I live with my dad, mom, sister and my two dachshunds in the house I grew up in and lived right down the street from my baba’s house. Baba stands for grandma in Ukraine which is where my one side of my family comes from. As a child I was always at my baba’s house, doing arts or crafts, going for coffee with her and talking to the older lady’s or helping make noodles. I was a joyful, creative and full of energy kid. Always using my imagination to play teacher with my stuffed animals or playing with my toys by myself. The time finally came to start kindergarten.

I was truly excited to go as I could finally walk with my big sister Emily to school. I made my first and my long-time best friend Kendra, we did everything together at school. Through kindergarten my teacher Mrs. Luciuk recommended me to go see a speech therapy. I enjoyed going, as I got to play many games to help with my speech. But this was just the beginning of the help I had with my speech. Grade one is the start of level reading and spelling tests, which are both two things I don’t like and not the strongest at. I always felt bad and be hide in reading as my friends were always higher than me. Throughout grade one to grade three I was pulled aside to help with my speech and reading, this helped me with my speech, but I still did not like reading. In grade three I was put into a different English class from my rest of my classmates. Mrs. Grismer English class had many various kids in her class, as it was made up of grade threes and grade fours who also struggled with spelling. I enjoyed her classes as we got our name put into a draw to win a Webkiz if we did good on the spelling test. As a kid I never liked reading, I would always pick books without words in them or I would never read the Geronimo Stilton books my mom would buy me. I had a fear of reading out load as i did not know how to pronouns certain words. But this did not get in my way from being happy or having fun in elementary, it truly did not bother or affected me during school it made me work harder.   At Rosthern High School you enter the high school at grade six. In my first year of high school my class was separated into two different classes for math and English. Which we described it as the slower group. My class was the smaller group which’d we got more help if we needed it. We were split up until grade nine for English, but math we were still split up until grade ten we got to pick if we wanted to take a full year or half a year. I was nervous to take a half year of math as I felt I was not able to handle it as I was put in the slower math from the start. So, I pick to take the full year which was the best decision. As i had an amazing teacher Mr. Kroeger and I got closer with the boys in my class.

Being put into these two different classes did not affected me in school. As I was happy and joyful to be at school every day. Through my years of high school, I played all the sports I could even balancing a job during my later years of school. I always took part of the school actives that the SRC (Student Representative Council) put on. I had positive attitude and always tried to include all the students in the actives that were put on. I got involved in SRC and was on the yearbook committee and house teams’ leaders for my grade ten and eleven year. I got to experience being on SRC with Kendra and more of my classmates, which helped my class grow closer. My class stated to get close in grade ten as there was only twenty. We were one big happy family that had each other’s backs and were always there for each other when someone was dealing with anything. Having a good relationship with my classmates really made high school way more fun. I was the one in the class who was always happy and full of energy, was always the one to say hi to you in the hallways or just chat with the teachers in the morning especially my chats with Mrs. Isaak. Throughout my years of school, I knew I wanted to be some type of educator. From being little and playing teacher with my friends and I always needed to be the teacher. Starting home economics in high school and enjoyed being in that class made me want to become a teacher. But I knew I wanted to with younger kids, the summer of grade twelve was when I figured out, I wanted to be a elementary teacher. What helped me decided is that I like the environment of being at school every day, making connections with people and having each day be different. I’m looking forward to becoming an educator and seeing where teaching can take me.