I am an alternative education teacher at a high school in Pennsylvania.
This isn’t exactly what I planned on being when I grew up, but it’s been a lesson in adjusting when life doesn’t go according to plans. I do love the kids I work with, but my job has been very challenging for reasons beyond what occurs in class. It has tested and stretched me, and I feel like I can face anything after some of my experiences.
I have no idea what I want to be when I grow up.
I love teaching and I do love the alternative education setting. However, the teaching field is a tough place to be right now. Finding a permanent, contracted job has yet to happen. I realize it’s helping me to build perseverance, but I also need to consider that maybe this is also God’s way of telling me I’m meant to do something else. I don’t know yet.
I have two sisters. We look like triplets.
I’m the oldest of three. We are super close, so being apart from them will be difficult.
I am a track and soccer coach at the high school I work at.
Along with leaving my family and friends, leaving “my kids” behind is heartbreaking. Even though as a new coach I don’t always know what I’m doing at times, I have grown attached to the kids on my teams. They’ve made as much as a difference in my life as I hope I have for them.
I love working out.
Running, spinning, lifting, soccer, basketball, swimming, etc. I can’t stand sitting still.
I love to read. Pretty much anything.
I love music. Any kind.
I’m afraid of heights. Like, standing on the second floor of a mall and can’t look over the balcony railing afraid of heights…
I had two knee surgeries before I turned twenty. I got stitches and a concussion from getting hit in the head by an icicle. I’ve broken both my feet…separately and at the same time. Basically, sometimes I can be a walking disaster. Fingers crossed for the future.
I love summer and fall. And tea, hot chocolate, Thanksgiving, Christmas, hammocks, fishing, animals, libraries, museums, concerts, coaching, teaching, suntans, traveling, being outside, walks hikes, my family, friends, my faith and anything spontaneous.
My favorite color is blue. Followed by green. Followed by red.
I need this trip probably more than this trip needs me.
The last few years of college and the past two years since graduation have been extremely difficult. Although there are memories that I wouldn’t trade, looking back I was lost for the majority of the time. Although more bad has happened than good, I’ve learned and gained a perspective that I never could have acquired if things had been easy and comfortable. I’m not looking for an escape from my own life, but I’m looking for a chance to tear away all the distractions that have been surrounding me and focus on what is most important to me: my faith.
