Humans Of SLA@Beeber: Ms. Jones

What is your best childhood memory? “ My best childhood memory.. Let’s see… My best childhood memory is going with my father to the university of Pennsylvania museum that is located in Philadelphia and.. and he leaving my sister, brother and I in the mummy area um where it was really dark and trying to scare us, but why it’s a special memory to me is because my father was a police officer and he didn’t take us many places, we usually we went with my mom. So to go with him somewhere alone and you know or to go with him anywhere was very cool. So and I think that’s where I get my love for museums, for being scared at the museums by the mummy’s.”

Ivana- Oh, That’s cool, cool, cool.  So um my second question is

Did you always wanted to be a teacher? “No, when I was growing up, well not even growing up. I went through a lot of things when I was growing up. but when I got to be a teenager I wanted to go to college I wanted to be a Biomedical engineer, I went to school for that and realized that my drafting class, that I couldn’t uh actually visual see in 3D or to draw it so I knew that at the point I was not going to be an engineer, and then I went back to school to become a history professor in college so I think that started me wanting to be a teacher at the point. then I was able to home school my youngest, who had some speech problems and I realized then that I really like teaching, by homeschooling him.”

Ivana- That’s really cool. So my last question is