Well, all about me….I guess I will start with the basics and see where my fingers take me from there. I’m from Indiana and excluding two months that I lived in Sydney, Australia (more about that in a bit) I’ve lived in the state my whole life. I love living in my small town and having space around where I live. I’m pretty much a country girl, although I like to visit the big city and it has it’s advantages. I have an awesome family who I am very close to. I will share more about them in a future post.
I have always had a passion for kids and teaching them. My mom says I was born to teach ever since I taught my little brother to read when he was 4. I guess I just decided that since I now knew how to read it was something he needed to know as well. Lucky for me he was a willing learner. I followed this passion by going to Anderson University and getting my degree in Elementary Education. I had an amazing oppertunity to do half of my student teaching overseas in Sydney, Australia. It was so amazing to live down there and work with the kids in my Year 3 class. I think they were as interested in me and my country as I was in them and their country. We learned a lot together about Australia’s history and culture as that just happend to be what they were doing when I was there teaching. It’s tough to teach about a place you’ve only just arrived to, but it was certianly a crash course in Australia that I am glad I got to take. 
After coming back to the states to graduate I spent the summer job hunting. This was a frustrating experience since things just didn’t seem to come together at all. Then all of a sudden at the end of the summer two jobs came up for me. One a job teaching fifth grade in Virgina and the other teaching Preschool back home at my home church. To be honest I really wanted the Virgina job, my best friend from college lives out there and how much fun to get to live with my best friend. I was more interested in the idea of teaching Preschool than fifth grade though. I interviewed for both jobs and I didn’t get offered either of them. I didn’t know what to do. Then, God stepped in and showed me. He showed me that He wanted me back home being the assistant in the Preschool and working with the Senior High youth group. Although it wasn’t what I had planned I was glad because God had showed me where He wanted me.
Since then things have stayed about the same here. I did become the lead teacher after the first semester when some changes happened in the program. I’ve enjoyed things here, but I’ve had this feeling that there was more that God was calling me to. I just didn’t know what. When I found the World Race totally by accident (although a friend of mine says nothing is by accident) I really felt excited because I was pretty sure I had found what God was leading me to. Now I’m so excited to see where God leads me through this next phase of life!
