The passion

In fact, that passion has always been there, hidden in my guts. When I was only six to seven years old, in my first year of school, I had my first experience teaching. I supported the class teacher by helping my peers learn to read. I was timid at that time, but sitting next to someone else and teaching reading and writing was very natural. In the following years of elementary school, I created lessons and printed them out for the class to do as homework. It was like I was a very young teaching assistant.

Becoming a Teaching Assistant

Students with high marks in a given discipline can apply to be a teaching assistant of that discipline. Right in the first year of college1, I became one. In my second semester (in Brazil, the colleges have two terms that we call semester or period), I started teaching the subject of Introduction to Accounting in the 2/2009 class of the Financial Management program.



1 Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas) is a private and non-profit Brazilian Catholic university. Recently, the Congregation for Catholic Education of the Vatican chose the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, PUC Minas, as the largest in the world.