My name is Nick Swank, I am a student in the Teaching English as a Second Language program. I was drawn to the program as I have ambitions to eventually become a French language teacher in some capacity at a Secondary level. This TESL program is a means of padding my competency of understanding language, culture, conflicts, and how they all relate to me as an educator. I have the motivation to become a teacher as I believe that good education is the only way for our society to improve. As a lifelong learner, it is important for me to understand my place within the world around me and how I am able to affect it. My hope is to be able to eventually provide tools for students to learn for themselves to improve their own environment and the social spheres that they are intertwined with as well.