Angela Blackmer - 8 Year Old Class
Birthplace: Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Education: B.A. English, Minor Environmental Science & Policy
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Years with QSI: 2
Languages spoken: English, Spanish
Background Info: Angela Infante Blackmer graduated from the University of South Florida in Tampa in May 2005 and married her high school sweetheart, Jarred Blackmer, in July of that year. She worked for a short time as a proofreader and copy editor for a printing company near Daytona Beach, Florida. In 2006, Angela became a certified teacher for Orange County Public Schools and taught 6th grade Language Arts at an Orlando middle school. After the birth of their son Nathan in August 2007, the Blackmers moved back to Tampa, where Angela spent the next school year teaching preschool children at a local Montessori center. In early 2008, she remembered an old dream of teaching abroad, and she and Jarred decided to pursue it while their family was young. They applied to QSI in March, and five months later, just in time for Nathan's first birthday, the Blackmer family arrived happily in Yerevan.
Education: B.A. English, Minor Environmental Science & Policy
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Years with QSI: 2
Languages spoken: English, Spanish
Background Info: Angela Infante Blackmer graduated from the University of South Florida in Tampa in May 2005 and married her high school sweetheart, Jarred Blackmer, in July of that year. She worked for a short time as a proofreader and copy editor for a printing company near Daytona Beach, Florida. In 2006, Angela became a certified teacher for Orange County Public Schools and taught 6th grade Language Arts at an Orlando middle school. After the birth of their son Nathan in August 2007, the Blackmers moved back to Tampa, where Angela spent the next school year teaching preschool children at a local Montessori center. In early 2008, she remembered an old dream of teaching abroad, and she and Jarred decided to pursue it while their family was young. They applied to QSI in March, and five months later, just in time for Nathan's first birthday, the Blackmer family arrived happily in Yerevan.