06 – Bea Zamora / Philippine Teacher, Skyline College, America

Ate Bea Zamora is this year’s Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) at Skyline College. She’s an English teacher in the Philippines and has been in the US for the last 9 months, teaching the Filipino language and assisting Filipino American classes through the Fulbright teaching program. She’s also been co-assisting College Success classes at both Westmoor and South City high schools. She shares a reflective poem, talks about her experience of arriving in America, and expounds on the differences she’s noticed between Philippine-born and American-born Filipinos. Pinay power!

Follow her on Instagram @bokkybok and visit her at Silliman University!