Introductions

My name is Aaron Merchen, and I'm a junior history education major at South Dakota State University. At SDSU I've been involved in many great organizations, like the Admissions Ambassadors, State University Theatre, Capers, and the unofficial chapter of Superfan Body-Painters.

Originally I'm from Spearfish, SD, where my mom, dad, younger sister, and older brother still live. For the 2007 Spring Semester, I'm studying International Education and Multicultural Teaching at Jonkoping University in Jonkoping, Sweden. I decided to make this journey for a number of reasons. I truly want to be the best teacher I'm capable of being. I feel that studying an educational system on the other side of the world will help not only with my scope of the American education system, but will give me a wealth of worldly experience to pass onto my students one day. Ultimately, I would like to teach at an economically disadvantaged school and maybe, one day, be an educational administrator.