# @emilyventures on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CrHamfuuvcK
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/14157308-emilyventures-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-04-16T23:42:33.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Emily A Hart (@EmilyVentures) — https://gondola.cc/EmilyVentures

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I lived and worked in Louisiana for 5 years after college. I had visited New Orleans several times before — my first real solo trip included — and felt pulled to it. I was in graduate school studying sociology at the time — after majoring in political science in undergrad — and never once imagined myself as a teacher. Definitely not a middle school math teacher 😂. 

But on one of those trips — more than 15 years ago somehow — I visited a college friend who was teaching in the city. Went out with their friends who were also all teachers. And I felt their passion.

I have always been a very curious person that loves to learn, but I also kind of kept going to school because I had no idea what else I would do. I was good at school. 

But I never felt that passionate about any possible career. Until I saw these teachers. And I thought, maybe that’s something I should try. 

So I did. I interviewed for an alternative certification teaching program in New Orleans. They had a waiting list for accepted applicants but asked if I might go to their new site in Shreveport. So I did. 

And I spent the best and most formative years of my life there. It set the stage for literally my entire adult life thus far. 

That visit to a bar in New Orleans with friends. 

visitneworleans #OneTimeInNola

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