Hi! I am a Education major, specializing in Secondary Life Science. I am a redneck farm-girl, and am proud of it! I am not quite sure why I came to college, but I suppose I am glad I did. I have lived in Maine all my life, then started college at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina, situated between a cotton field and a tobacco farm. It was great, but I missed home like crazy... so I came back! My first two years of school were spent studying Nursing... my plan was to go into medical missions. But last May, I switched to Science Education. I cannot even express the burden that has been lifted off my shoulders! I finally feel like I am doing something I want to do! And its much less stressful than learning how to save someones life! I would like to teach in a Christian school or the juvenile detention center... helping teens from rough backgrounds has always piqued my interest. I would like to offer these teens some hope for a decent future, and if science is the way to get into their lives, then that is what I will do! Its a little scary to think of though... little me teaching tough trouble-makers... so lets stop thinking about it! God will provide what I need when I need it! I suppose that God has a plan- even though I would rather just be on the farm, and with my horses and dog, I have got to do some pretty neat things. Here at Husson, I am very involved in Campus Crusade for Christ, and get to play piano, sing, and play guitar to lead the worship! It is great to have a bunch of people all my age who all want to live for God! The chapel gets so full that we need to meet in the campus center!
I shall offer you a little background information of my life... I grew up in the coolest redneck town. Mom stayed home and homeschooled me and my two big brothers (Cort and Kyle), while Dad was a mailman (he just retired!). My brothers worked on a dairy farm in our town, and when I was 9, I began working at a stable next to the dairy farm. I eventually began teaching riding lessons, managing the working student program, and was assistant barn manager. When not working or doing homeschool, we canoed, fished, hunted, shot guns (almost daily!), and fooled around in the woods building forts and bunkers, and anything absolutely crazy and insane. My brothers and I were (and are) best friends... we all had the same crazy friends. Cort went to Pensacola Christian College in Florida when I was 14 (He is now a Weapons Handler at Brunswick Naval Air Station, and a reserve police officer). Kyle and I got quite involved in our town's tiny youth group- he was the drummer, I sang, and when Cort was home, he played guitar. Then when I was 16, Kyle went to Parris Island for USMC boot camp. Billy, their friend who practically lived with us, so we deemed him our brother, went to Navy boot camp. This was rough- I was home alone with my parents! I started playing piano (under duress... my Mom made me!) when I was a senior... I fell in love with it, and played and sang with the youth group band, and a band at a teen center (for street kids). I got involved helping at the teen center- its a Christian place with the goal of getting the teens from broken up and rough homes off the streets on the weekend. With them, I bicycled around the perimeter of Prince Edward Island (270 miles) and from Lake George, NY to home (285 miles). That was a ton of fun! It was amazing to see these "invincible" street kids so worn out and out of energy that they would finally pray to God for the strength to make it up the next hill! Sometimes people just need to be pushed (mentally or physically) near the brink of breaking or failure to realize that they need help! I know I did.
Ok- enough about my life story... I could go on forever... but I am such a slow typer that it would take me forever and a day! I didn't grow up with technology- we were too busy outside, building foil bombs and messing around... we didn't even watch much TV! We got a computer when I was in high school, and I used it for a couple home school classes, but hated it. I still hate computers... I don't understand them, and they don't understand me! I started having to use it when I went to college, and am pretty comfortable with it, but would much rather be reading books and hand-writing stuff! I should've been born in the 1800's... I wish I was! I learn best by doing... not much auditory, because I never had that growing up. But I can learn with auditory if necessary... I am pretty easy-going! I am pretty quick at figuring stuff out except with technology...
