I am a lifetime learner. I have loved school since the first day of Kindergarten. I graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor's Degree in Marriage, Family and Human Development and worked with infants in foster care for a year. I then returned to school at the University of Utah where I received a Master's Degree in Applied Linguistics with a certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). As part of my graduate work I did research in and published a paper on the communicative approach in foreign language textbooks. I ocillate between my two interests: family relationships and TESOL.