I first realized I wanted to work with kids at a very young age, but it wasn’t till later in my schooling career that I realized I wanted to become a teacher. When I was in grade four, we would practice mad minute multiplication sheets every morning before our math lesson would start. At the time I was not a strong math student and I struggled with it on a daily basis. Every morning we would start and the teacher would put the timer on the smart board and the count down would begin… 3, 2, 1, go. And after a minute went by and the buzzer went off, I finished 10 multiplication questions out of 100. Our teacher would then call our names and we would have to announce to the class how many questions we had accomplished. And when my turn came up and I said I finished 10 questions, the whole class would laugh and tears would flood my eyes. Because of this instance I developed insane amounts of anxiety everyday when coming into math class due to the embarrassment I experienced; which stuck with me into my high school life. But then in my grade nine year, my home room teacher Mr. Andrews encouraged me to become an elementary teacher at my student teacher conference, he explained that I had the right loving, caring, and patient mentality to be an amazing teacher so I took that information and never looked back; at this moment I realized that I wanted to become a teacher. Because of this I gained enough motivation and support to start teaching dance lessons at my local Dance club, help with junior girl volleyball practices, and became an active member in the senior student leadership council; it made me realize that I wanted to make a change in students lives.