“I was always the teacher’s helper. Education was just always around, with my mom, and my grandma. My grandma was my favorite person in the entire world and she spoke French. She learned French as a girl and then she would go take classes and sometimes I would go with her. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world so I wanted to learn French. I kinda always thought I’d be a teacher and everyone thought I’d be a teacher. So when I went to college I tried everything else to not be a teacher. In college, I remember I dropped out for a bit because I didn’t know what I wanted to do but intended to return. I just said I’m gonna travel a while till I figure out what I’m gonna do, but it was the best decision I made then. I just had that time to figure out who I was and what I wanted. I just think it’s so important for people to explore places out of their comfort zone. When I was living in Montreal, Quebec, I wanted to work with adult people who had just moved to Quebec who just migrated there and didn’t speak either French or English but they put me in a school. The minute I walked into the school I thought oh yeah this is what I was supposed to be doing. I always thought that if I taught French I would learn to hate it because it’d be a part of my job and I’d take the joy out of the language but I still love it. It’s made me fall in love with the language even more, like watching kids learn it and learn the culture. It’s been a long time since I’ve lived in the language. It all turned out.”
People of the Ville
Cyndy Moehling