About Mr. Serphy

My name is Reginald Serphy, i'm from the great island called Haiti. It's a nice place to live, i lived there for the first part of my childhood, which was a very great one i must say, i was raised by my both of my grandparents on both side of my family. I moved to the U.S. when i was six years old. My parents were already living in America, they left my brother and I to be raised by our grandparents in order for them to come to America and established themselves here to provide my brother and I a good life.

I still remember the day i arrived to the United States, it was so very different here than in Haiti, when the plane touched down at Miami International Airport, i was thanking god that we were on solid ground, I have a great fear of flying and i was holding my breathe the entire flight well ofcourse not literraly but the whole experience was a very intense one i must admit. It was a very long drive back to the house, when our parents picked us up they were like strangers to us, because we had never met them before, i was very young when they left for America, all i ever saw were black and white photographs of them and some color ones that they sent to us from America, we heard the sound of their voices because they were always sending us letters and cassette recordings.

My first school was Allapatah Middle School. Talk about scary, not in the sense i had a language barrier or anything, when i arrived to the America both my brother and I were very fluent in english, because in Haiti, our grandparents were very afluent in their community, they were able with our parents help place us in an American private school in Haiti, called L'ecole American, we learned to speak in write in english. The American kids were not as respectful or behave as well as the students in Haiti. watching those kids talk back to the teachers and cussing like they had no home training was really different to what i was used to. The learning method was very different, in Haiti we would have to study our lessons and the next day recite the entire page(s) in front of the teacher, but here we don't even study.

After i graduated High School at North Miami Senior, I went to Florida Memorial College which is now Florda Memorial University, where I studied Criminal Justice and Business Adminitstration. That was when I met the love of my life Micheline Cadette, she was and still is my inspiration. During a Christmas break I took my brother to the Army recruting office, my brother failed the test, the recruiter approached me to take it, i scored in the high ninety percentile, I really did not have any directions for after school, after speaking with my now wife we both decided that the Army would be a good place to start, it was a very good experience, I felt complete I had my wife, child and a good career that allowed me to support my family. When I left the Army I quickly found out it was not easy to land a job, my wife convinced me to return back to school and do something that I love and that is to teach kids, I'm really looking forward to start my new career as a teacher because I have a lot of life experience I can use to inspire my students.