On May 14th of this year I will finally graduate with my Early Childhood Education degree. I am now 24 years old and this two year degree program has taken me five years to complete. To keep things in perspective I have to remind myself daily that not everyone beat cancer and studied in Ireland while working on their degree.
Family is the most important thing in the world to me. I'm also a crazy pet lady. If at least two animals aren't within a few feet of me, I feel strange. I have one sibling and I love him more than I love myself. I had always been a home-body. I was home-schooled through high school and eighth grade. It wasn't until I studied through the George Mitchell Peace Scholarship that I became obsessed with travel. My "New Year Resolution" for 2011 is to visit three more countries this year. Last year I visited Ireland, England, and Germany. This year I would like to go to Italy, Spain, and Austria.
When I'm not daydreaming about the places I will travel I am trying to work out what I want to do with my life. Working at the kindergarten for my field placement brings me endless joy but I know myself well enough to know that I want to do many things in this lifetime. I want to run support groups for cancer patients and young women, continue to raise money for charities and causes I care about, write about traveling and how to beat cancer without losing your mind, and a million other things. When I transfer to UMaine at Orono in the fall I believe I will major in Communications with a minor in German. It's an ecclectic mix that I think will suit me.
