Mr. Sanchez, taking a moment between grading quizzes to pose for a quick photo (photo by Francesca Colanzi)
When he was in college, his first career choices were becoming a lawyer or an architect. He never really thought about being
a teacher; it was something unexpected.
One day, Mr. Sanchez found a piece of paper
that talked about becoming a mentor to elementary kids to earn some cash. When he became a mentor, he really enjoyed teaching math and
English to kids who came from really bad backgrounds. After mentoring kids for
a while, he realized that teaching was what he wanted to pursue. All of a
sudden, law and architecture didn’t seem so important anymore.
When he graduated college he started
working as a teacher. He was a teacher in the States for a long time. He then found
out that since he likes to travel around the world, being an international
teacher would be a great opportunity. After he became an international teacher
he moved to Guatemala. He said he enjoyed Guatemala a lot. After his contract
in the country of Guatemala was over, Mr. Sergio Sanchez moved to another Latin
America country, Nicaragua. Mr. Sanchez enjoyed teaching social science in
Nicaragua. He had a good several years. He mentioned that “Nicaragua is really different than here. Here you guys have
addresses and there we had to locate places from the main lake.” A few months ago, his contract was over
and that’s when he decided to come to Santa Cruz.
High school world history teacher, Mr.
Sergio Sanchez, is enjoying his stay in Santa Cruz. He says there are so many
things that are similar to Nicaragua, such as the type of music and singers,
and the sports in general. He’s excited to meet new people that are as passionate
as he is and similar to him. What he likes best about teaching is seeing the students
learning and thinking. He concludes the interview with a very wise quote,
“Hopefully the things I do now will make a better society, country and people."
-Francesca Colanzi
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