Who I am

I have been in college for the past ten years and have done countless introduction blogs, essays, class announcements, poems and whatever else you can think of to tell people who I am. But I have realized through out these ten years that these assignments never really tell who a person truly is; it’s all surface information that the person can share easily and honestly. For the sake of not boring myself and the people who read this blog, I will be keeping it short and sweet.

I am twenty-eight years old and, like I said, I have been attending college for the past ten years. I did take a break for about a year to figure out if school was for me, and after working in the “real world” at a “grown-up job” which entailed me to do booking keeping, insurance billing and accounts receivable/payable for a three-doctor doctors’ office, I decided that there was SOMETHING else out there for me. In other words, I realized I hated my job and wanted to be something different for the rest of my life. I went back to school and was really inspired by many of my English teachers at Butte College (Shout out to Mark McGinnis- you’re the best!). I wanted to inspire people just like they inspired me so I decided to be an English teacher and now here I am today accomplishing that goal.

I recently quit that previous bookkeeping job I had and found a position at Basik Recycling as an office worker. I love it there and I love being part of a new business that is trying to help the community. For any students out there looking to do some recycling after cleaning up from the night before’s party, bring all that to Basik Recycling cause we have the best prices in town for cans and bottles. (Couldn’t resist-had to do a promo!)

I am excited to be almost done with my degree, as Chico State keeps reminding me with pesky e-mails that I am now a Senior and need to sign up to graduate next spring, but I am admittedly nervous about being a teacher and being in charge of so many impressionable childrens’ education. I don’t want to be the teacher that a student remembers being the worst; or a teacher that a student doesn’t remember at all. I want to be like my all-inspiring teachers I had in college (and a few from high school).

What else…. ummm I am from Orland, CA. To those of you new to this area it’s about twenty miles from Chico so I guess you could say I have grown up/around the Chico area all my life. But it amazes me some of the places in Chico I haven’t heard of or haven’t been to yet. Maybe I’m biased, but this is a great little town. Once you’ve done all the normal drinking, rafting, St. Paddy’s Day stuff stretch your legs in our beautiful parks or venture out to Butte Meadows.

Anyways, that pretty much all I have to say about that. I look forward to getting to know all the peeps in my class and wish everybody luck in their future endeavors!