My role model, Dr. Ana Mercedes Montero Velez

Second time's the charm...


I started this post and had like, well basically the beginning but Firefox froze on me while attempting to open PUCPR's webpage XD Yeah...

So as I was saying (well writing mostly) Yesterday I came to realize how much one of my English professors, Annie as we've come to know her, means to me. After taking 2 major English courses with her, English 223 and 224 and currently coursing my third semester with her taking English 311 Morphology and the structure of the English Language; she has become a big part of my academic life. With her quick wit, her ironic yet loving insults and her simple way of being is enough to brighten our dull days ^_^

Now who is Dr. Montero? She is this feisty little woman, standing tall at 4 feet and 11 inches high. Well manicured nails, blondish brown hair, intelligent, sarcastic yet loving...She has been our professor for the past 2 English courses and we have 2 more with her, she has also been the reason as to why so many students have changed their concentrations. ^_^

Yesterday we had a quiz on the vowel sounds and most of my classmates, though prepared, they were scared of taking the quiz since Hello? It was an Annie quiz XD they are SO not meant to be taken lightly. Well...my classmates who shall remain nameless *cough*AngelCarmeloMiguelandrandomdudewhosenameescapesme*cough* applied what they had learn from having taken English 223 with Annie.

You see, last year, as she was writing on the chalkboard she jumped up and exclaimed "Ow!" Being the caring students that we are, we asked what was wrong. "I've been bitten by the quiz bug..." [insert smug Annie smile] "Put everything away and let's have a short quiz on the first 5 chapters of the book" Long story short, we all basically failed that quiz ^^;;; Annie then apologized and said: "I'm sorry, it's just that...If I see the desks lined up nicely I get the urge to give quizzes." Well that comment stuck in my classmates heads and every day since then, they place all the desks in either a circular form or all joined side by side in a group so Annie won't give us quizzes.

Yesterday, Annie proved our theory wrong...Well theirs in this case - -;; She walked into the classroom and saw them all bunched up, she stared at them and smiled her sarcastic smile and told them "Awww...I think it is so special how you 4 friends are always so close together. I think it shows us that you all have a strong bond and are inseparable, but that's not getting you out of our quiz." Well...they just sat there staring at Annie and having scared smiles on their faces. Annie once again smiled (and we all know that her smiles are pretty dangerous...) "What I mean to say is...GET IN THE DAMN LINE FOR GOD'S SAKE!" and in less than a second they had already moved their desks and were shaking in their seats. Wow...Annie has such power over them, us for that matter. "I am so ashamed of how easy this quiz is...It's almost embarrassing." she smiled "But I know some of you will just, find a way to prove me wrong. ^_^"

Quiz was easy, providing you had studied. I finished it in less than 15 minutes, but I still went back and double checked my answers of course. After the quiz, Annie said that volunteers had to go up to the chalkboard and answer the homework words we had to transcribe. Only 5 students went up there to answer them, and only 2 answers were correct. No one else dared to go up there...Annie sat on one of our desks and asked "Well, any more volunteers?" and received no replies. "People, for God's sake...I asked you to transcribe simple, normal everyday words. Not something like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!" she stood up and kept on going "I mean, come on. All of you have gone to the THEATER, some of you have NEPHEWS and you all live in a NEIGHBORHOOD. You all hope to GRADUATE and you'd better get up and write the damn words before I lose my PATIENCE and send somebody to the HOSPITAL. Where it will be so cold that you'll need to wear a JACKET." We all sat in our seats semi-petrified yet laughing our heads off as she said "See? I used all the words I assigned...and you understood them, so there's no excuse."

It's Annie moments like these that make me glad to be taking classes with such an amazing professor, one that really helped me realize what I want to be when I grow up...What I want to become, and that is an English professor just like her. But as much as I love and admire her, I'm thankful to be taller than she is :P

Niimu