My interview with Miss. Rose.

I interviewed Miss Rose, my ballet teacher. She started ballet when she was 12 years old, and
she has studied ballet in the National System for Professional Teaching of Dance of Bellas
Artes that now is called CNA and was also given a scholarship to study ballet in St.
Petersburg, Russia. She danced in the Compaa Nacional de Danza Clsica de Bellas Artes
for 17 years and then she danced in the Taller Coreogrfico of UNAM for 15 years.

Her best experience, when she was a professional ballerina, was when foreign choreographers
came and showed them different choreographic styles. She wanted to start teaching at the end
of her career, 15 years ago, when she realized that new young ballerinas needed help with their
steps. The thing that motivates her to be a ballet teacher is that she can help little girls to learn
and save them time learning the steps perfectly. That was something that she didnt have when
she was learning, she said.

When I asked her what she likes about giving ballet classes she said that she likes learning
about her students, their ideas, the way they answer but what she likes most about teaching is
learning. What she didnt like about being a ballerina are the tours around the world and the
time spent away from home, the price that she paid for the physical effort, because when you
are injured and you still have to dance you pay a big price later on like she did. What she likes
about being a ballerina is dancing on the stage and teaching, so that others dance instead of
her, because she cant dance any more.

When I asked her about the characteristics you need to be a perfect ballerina she answered
that perfection doesnt exist. She recommended that a good ballerina needs to be always
growing. You have to train every day, to be better every day. You have to listen, to know how
to listen to suggestions, to separate the good from the bad, to make the most of people, and
every day to work more and more.

My interview with Patricia

I interviewed Patricia my mum and teacher. She learned about homeschool 20 years ago, when
an American friend told her that her daughter was attending college at the age of sixteen. She
told her that she had never sent her to school and that she had taught her all the way till
college. Next my mum went to a homeschool convention in Minnesota and afterwards she
decided to pull my brothers out of school and start studying at home. Most of the family didnt
agree with the idea. In general it was easy because she bought several curriculums for my
brothers and she felt guided.

She has been teaching us for 20 years. She started with my older brothers, who are now
married, and then with my sister and I. She likes, very much, to teach, particularly History.

My mum homeschools for many reasons. First, because we spend more time with her.
Secondly, because we have deepened our relationship, and finally, because it is a one to one
teaching environment which leads to a quicker and more profound way of learning. She likes
homeschooling most of the time, although sometimes, it is time consuming.

Interestingly, she does not recommend homeschooling for others because its a very personal
decision. It requires a very strong commitment and it depends on the familys needs.
There are many, many families doing homeschool, mostly Christian families.