My name is Kirsley Dalay Ryfkogel, and I was born in Panama. I lived in a small town called David, Chiriqui until I was 11 years old and then moved to San Diego California when I turned 12 years old. I speak Spanish and English (knew how to speak German when I was little but forgot how to speak it since the only person that spoke German was my grandfather and he passed away when I was about 5 or 6 years old. Since then I never spoke German again), but I find it easier for me to communicate in English since I only talk in Spanish to my mom. After moving to SD, I started middle school and that is where I learned most of my English. After that, around my last year in middle school, my dad got stationed (he was in the Navy back then, now he is retired) in Guam for two years, so I finished middle school there and started high school. After my freshman year of high school, we moved back to San Diego and I started my sophomore year of high school in San Ysidro High School and graduate it from there in 2006. I then started my College experience that same year around September. Believe it or not, I think I have changed my major quite a few times until I could find one that truly spoke of who I was. And that is when I chose Human Development in Child Services. I know you would think is so out of the road from Teaching but I think teaching what I know to youths in our society just defines who I am more. I want to start my teaching credential next semester and I am taking both the CSET and CBEST before I start so I can get into the program. Sounds like a lot, well it is..
I have somewhat experience with technology. While I was in middle school I took some computer classes and some CAD classes that truly helped me a lot in understanding technology a lot better. I am quite good at adjusting myself into whatever new technology comes out, and it only takes me a few minutes to be able to understand it. Though I did not major in anything to do with computers, I think I be quite good at it. So, maybe once I start my teaching career, it be a good idea to go back to school and get a degree in computer management, since I said, it is good to have computer skills when in a classroom.
As I read the mission statement of the CSUSM/COE I realized that, that was not necessarily what pushed me to be a teacher. My grandfather was a Music Teacher and my father is a NJROTC teacher, and I found in me that I have a passion for teaching youths in society what I have learned throughout my years of schooling. That was mainly what drove me the most to wanting to enter the COE at CSUSM to try and teach and to learn more of course. Like Doctors, Teachers never stop learning. That is one thing I have come to realize the past couple of years.
