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. My mom, then a young woman in her early twenties who had been forced to interrupt her secondary school studies, taught me how to read and write before I entered school. Since I already possessed such skills, I supported the class teacher by helping my peers learn to read. Although I was very shy at that time, sitting next to someone else and teaching reading and writing was very natural. In the following years of elementary school, I prepared supplemental lessons and printed them out for the class to do as homework. I was like a very young teaching assistant.

Becoming a course tutor

Students with high marks in a given discipline can apply to be a tutor (or peer mentor) of that discipline. Right in the first year of college1, I became one. In my second term, I led tutorial sessions on the subject of Introduction to Accounting for newly admitted students in 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.