Junior
Spanish and English
Daily Lobo: What classes are you taking this semester?
Selma Kettwich: Spanish Linguistics 351 and Spanish 439: Trauma in Latin America. It's intense.
DL: What do you hope to do once you graduate?
SK: Travel. I would teach English or Spanish in another country.
DL: Have you been to other countries before?
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SK: I went to Chile. I studied there last semester for one whole semester.
DL: What did you take away from that experience?
SK: A million things. I guess you get a whole new take on the world. The U.S. is sort of like a bubble, and it's important to think about other countries, other people and use what we have here like education to help out other countries.
DL: Did you work with both children and adults?
SK: Yes. I studied at a university and volunteered with 9-year-olds and 10-year-olds and sort of just hung out with them and became friends because they came from hard families and hard lives.
DL: Are you interested in doing that again? Would you go back to Chile?
SK: Definitely. I wish I would've stayed a year in Chile, but now that I've been there I'll go somewhere else if I ever study abroad again.
DL: Where would be the first place you would want to go?
SK: Well, being a native from New Mexico, I've never been to Mexico, so I'd probably have to check that out.
DL: You're a native but only visit New Mexico during the summer?
SK: I live in Tacoma, so I study at the University of Puget Sound in Washington. It's small - a lot smaller. My family still lives here and my brothers and sisters and my whole family went here, and I like it a lot.
DL: With all your travel, do you have time for hobbies?
SK: I play volleyball and run track. I like outdoor stuff. I like hiking, and I like dogs. I'm a dog walker.
DL: Do you have any pets of your own?
SK: I grew up on a farm so, yeah, I guess if that counts.
DL: Is the farm here in Albuquerque?
SK: Right outside the city in the South Valley. We have like 40 horses and 10 dogs and are always getting more of everything, but I guess they're my parents', so no, not really. And no, I don't have a dog in college. I wish.
