I ran the save the cable cars campaign to raise 10 million dollars help rebuild the system. Completely different part of my life. Here at the canal alliance it's a community center in San Rafael that serves a mostly latino population of immigrants and one of the many many services that they have is this big ASL program. There were about 20 teachers like me and many aides who teach adults here. I teach part-time here and I've had other full-time teaching positions right now I'm writing full-time for one of the publishers of ASL books but teaching here is always sort of my foundation I love it here. The students are awesome the leadership of the organization is awesome. The certificate taught me what to do in the classroom but I didn't really have the foundation of understanding why and I didn't necessarily understand how second language learning occurs. What is actually going on in the brain and heart of a second language learners. So that whole theoretical underpinning was what I wanted and that's why I went to USF and decided to get a master's. I had fabulous professors there. It was a very individualized program we had a lot of individual attention the classes were small and they really make sure that everybody's questions were being answered that our interests were addressed. They spent an enormous amount of time with our work, our individual work, helping us understand what how it could be better and I just felt like it was a really intensive responsive faculty. Whatever you're doing takes maximum advantage of things they already know so that they kind of have a scaffolding to attach it to they have a way of connecting with it and just making it one step beyond what they know so that it is achievable and it's doable and it's within reach. It's very easy to overshoot and just present things that are at a level that they can't really deal with yet you kind of have to take it step by step.It's easy to undershoot too, but I think myself I'm more guilty of the latter and I think when I observe other teachers that's more likely to be the case where they just so that's a really important thing you know being able to evaluate your students and assess their abilities and their knowledge and then present new material in a way that it's connected to their knowledge. At the end of every class students come up and shake your hand Thank You teacher Thank You teacher see you next week andyou can just how they are really genuinely grateful makes you feel oh gee whiz it's wonderful.