I just turned 25.
After graduating with a degree in English Education from the University of Evansville, which is a small private school in southern Indiana (in case you didn’t already know because they didn’t stalk you with two brochures a day throughout your junior and senior years of high school), I moved “back” in with my parents and tried to find a teaching job, which didn’t work out so well. I did, however, teach Science. Twice.
Over the past several months, I have become increasingly aware that what God desires from us as His children has a lot more to do with spreading the Gospel and His infinite love throughout the world than it does with teaching English to Midwestern high-schoolers. Though I do believe those things can be done simultaneously, it’s not the path He has called me to take right now.
I’ve got a great family with a strong Christian foundation, and I love them even though they regularly reject my “brilliant” ideas. I even like to be around them most of the time. I have an older brother, Cody, and two younger sisters, Heidi and Jenna. And my cousin lives next door, and I like her and her boys, too. I like watching them play sports, and I’m already trying to cope with how much I’m really going to miss hanging out with my buddy Jayden for 11 months.
My friends are serious high quality. Pretty much all of my friends are getting married and/or having babies, of which I am doing neither, and you know what they say, if you can’t join them, leave the country for a year.
I was born and raised in Loogootee, Indiana. And that’s also where I’m currently living. It’s small. I mean 3-stoplights small, and I like it.
I’m pretty not competent at playing soccer or throwing or catching a Frisbee. I do, however, love sports, especially softball.
I am naturally pretty optimistic and laid-back, or as I like to say, “flexible.”
I like Friday Night Lights, the NBC series. The movie was good, too, but the TV series is vastly one of the most underrated shows ever on television. My siblings and I talk about Tim Riggins and Matt Seracen like they are real people. –“Look, it’s a new movie about Tim Riggins on a boat.”– Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose. Seriously.
I like to laugh so hard that I tear up and my abs hurt. I mean, I really do. One of the only things that I like more than that is making other people laugh so hard that they tear up and their abs hurt. Sometimes I try too hard to do that, and it doesn’t work out.
God has brought us all here “for such a time as this,” and I am very excited about what He has in store for the next “chapter” of my life.
I’m also pretty excited about the possibility of temporarily befriending a giraffe.
