Vblog #1

Vblog#1:      Hi my name is Rubi Almonte. I was born and raised in Houston, Texas. I am a student at the University of Houston where I am majoring in Teaching and Learning for EC-6. I am currently doing my student teaching in HISD. Spanish is my first language and I didn't learn English until I was in second grade. I was mostly exposed to it by my older siblings when they started going to school. I felt like I was exposed to a great amount of both languages as I started to grow and started to get different interests in TV and music. Growing up I never saw the need to learn a different language yet I felt like I was exposed to it more because as my siblings grew up they started to communicate more in English than Spanish. I never felt the need to learn it yet I did feel the need of needing to understand the English language to be able to understand what people were saying around me. I felt that my exposure to a different language has always been positive. Now that I am doi...