In the spirit of 11, here’s a list of 11 things to know about me.

  1. I was born in South Carolina, but grew up both there and in Belgium.  My family currently lives in Thailand.  Where am I from?  Who knows?
  2. I’ve spent the past four years at Elon University in North Carolina, where I’m majoring in English literature and French.
  3. I LOVE young adult literature.  Absolutely love it.  Sarah Dessen and John Green are a couple of my favorite authors.
  4. Because I love words and writing and editing, I work at Elon’s Writing Center.  I love my job and will miss it terribly after I graduate.
  5. I love to knit.  Hats are presently my favorite, although I’ve also done scarves, socks and gloves and am working on a sweater.
  6. I love to bake.  Really, I just love to love people through food.  I think there’s something really special and sweet (literally) about giving someone homemade baked goods.
  7. I love (plain) Cheerios.  This may seem like a strange, unimportant aspect to use to describe myself, but anyone who’s ever lived with me can tell you that this is critical.  I could pretty much live off of plain Cheerios drowning in milk.
  8. My Intervarsity Christian Fellowship family has been my home base at Elon for the past four years, and it will be very, very hard to leave them.
  9. I love to laugh, and I love cheesy, punny humor.  I am rarely serious and I’m always playing on words.
  10. “Mr. Darcy is not to be laughed at!  That is an uncommon advantage, and uncommon I hope it will continue, for it would be a great loss to me to have many such acquaintance. I dearly love a laugh.”  It is a truth universally acknowledged that I love to quote Pride and Prejudice.  A lot.
  11. I am dreamy and idealistic, devoted and passionate, joyful and optimistic, a listener and an encourager.  Best of all, I’m a daughter of the King.

And I’ll be launching in September with the delightful squad of Route 3 to Haiti, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Cambodia!