Ghehehe, what Deth said. Also a nice anecdote that the teacher who taught me that kinda spoke with a 'spray'. The people sitting up front weren't too happy with the Spanish names.
As for your second question, my degree is to teach at a high school level. Though me myself am going to uni next year (finally!). Still trying to decide if I want to study cultural history or ancient history.
I'm thinking it's going to be the first because then I already know what my research project is going to be!