Now that I have a CV page, a lot of that quantifiable information about who I am is laid out for you in shorthand. My schools, degree, certification, experience, etc…

What else should I say? I’m much more than those things of course.
I had a double minor in school of Psychology and Philosophy. That’s not to say “oh how fancy that sounds, double-minor” but to point out that my main interests come from those subjects now, even though Spanish will always be a big influence on my life.

Philosophy has taught me to question and to wonder about things most people take for granted. One of those questions is about our experience of … well, existence. Let’s say “existence” could be condensed into a movie. If I sit down and watch that movie, and then you sit down and watch that movie, have we seen the same thing? Of course we have a different quality of observation, but may there be anything else quantifiably different from my experience and yours? Maybe the language you grew up speaking is one of them. I’m not talking about subtitles either. Perhaps some scenes were more dull when they were vibrant to you because of the words you know for colors.

Psychology picks up on that quantifiable search where Philosophy prompts the questions. With fMRI, eye scanning labs, and other means of gathering data, some studies are building a body of evidence to indicate experiential diversity because of (sorry, correlating with) linguistic diversity.

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So yeah. I came to Barcelona to get to know the city and give a bit of value to those years I spent studying Spanish. I enjoy teaching and got a certificate to teach English. Protectionist laws and a poor economy have made it nearly impossible to find work actually teaching a class of my own, but I’m getting amazing experiences despite this challenge.

I don’t plan on living here forever though. I want to get to work exploring those questions I just talked about. I’ll be applying to grad programs in the USA for Fall of 2011 and hopefully I go somewhere interesting!

I’ll try to leave some morsels behind on this website to give you an idea of the things I’ve done and seen.

Enjoy.