Will Forrest: Teacher At Paonia High School
Will Forrest
Will Forrest is a Spanish and history teacher at Paonia High School. He is a cross country coach and always seems to have Spanish music blaring from his classroom. Little does everyone know that Mr. Forrest’s original plan was to graduate college and go into the military. Why isn’t he in the military? Why is he a teacher at a school with under 200 students, instead of following his plan, “I expected to graduate with a degree in history and teaching, and I expected to end up joining some branch of the military…”. Why did his “entire life plan that I had been working on since I was 12…” not come about?
Mr. Forrest went to college at Western State College of Colorado, and graduated with a degree in Spanish and history. When he started college he didn’t expect to receive an academic degree in Spanish, but his Spanish professor, Veronica Mendez, showed him how he could use his love of Spanish in his career. Mrs. Mendez was a pivotal piece in Will’s development, and she got him his first teaching job as a Spanish teacher, but his main influence was from his history …show more content…
Well, in Communications 275, the professor had them watch a movie, “Good Morning Vietnam”, to be exact. This movie changed everything. Near the end of the movie there is a scene which changed the way Will saw the world, it changed what he wanted to do in life, it changed his perspective on the life he wanted to live. That scene shows Adrian Cronauer, Robin Williams, having a gun pointed at his head by a Vietnamese boy that he had become friends with, this boy was a spy and the camp ended up getting over run. That moment, watching that scene, had completely blown his life plan out of the water, “I knew from that point on there was no way I was going into the military…”. This happened only two weeks into his freshman year! He had to grow up and figure out a new
Will Forrest is a Spanish and history teacher at Paonia High School. He is a cross country coach and always seems to have Spanish music blaring from his classroom. Little does everyone know that Mr. Forrest’s original plan was to graduate college and go into the military. Why isn’t he in the military? Why is he a teacher at a school with under 200 students, instead of following his plan, “I expected to graduate with a degree in history and teaching, and I expected to end up joining some branch of the military…”. Why did his “entire life plan that I had been working on since I was 12…” not come about?
Mr. Forrest went to college at Western State College of Colorado, and graduated with a degree in Spanish and history. When he started college he didn’t expect to receive an academic degree in Spanish, but his Spanish professor, Veronica Mendez, showed him how he could use his love of Spanish in his career. Mrs. Mendez was a pivotal piece in Will’s development, and she got him his first teaching job as a Spanish teacher, but his main influence was from his history …show more content…
Well, in Communications 275, the professor had them watch a movie, “Good Morning Vietnam”, to be exact. This movie changed everything. Near the end of the movie there is a scene which changed the way Will saw the world, it changed what he wanted to do in life, it changed his perspective on the life he wanted to live. That scene shows Adrian Cronauer, Robin Williams, having a gun pointed at his head by a Vietnamese boy that he had become friends with, this boy was a spy and the camp ended up getting over run. That moment, watching that scene, had completely blown his life plan out of the water, “I knew from that point on there was no way I was going into the military…”. This happened only two weeks into his freshman year! He had to grow up and figure out a new