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It's hard to be creative under pressure!

Winner of the Mary Lou Retton Award! Idiotarod 2007!

About Me

I was born in raised in the heartland state, Ohio, in the land of Cleves. I had a short stint in Anaheim while I was in HS. I lived at home, back again in cleveland, while attending Case Western Reserve University. I thoroughly enjoyed 4 years of hyrax spandex on the Varisty Volleyball team. Once I graduated with a degree in History and Education. I moved to Seoul, SOUTH, Korea two years ago to work for Seoul Foreign. I just got my MA at Teachers College, Columbia. And now I'm living Baton Rouge, LA teaching AP world history. And most importantly enjoying finally living in the same city as my fiance!Get premade layouts from Myspace Layouts +
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My Interests

Travelling around Asia and Europe: Korea, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines, Belgium, Holland, and France... Other than teaching, which I love, I enjoy the following: dancing, listening to country music (espeically to drive my students crazy), singing loudly to GREAT music, coaching and playing volleyball, tumbling (especially at basketball games to get the crowd fired up), playing softball my fiance spending time with my five fantabulous nephews and nieces, playing 4 square with my students
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I'd like to meet:

why you of course

Music:

Dixie Chicks, SHEdaisy, Dierks Bentley, Rascall Flatts, Guster, Midtown, Postal Service, Cranberries, Tracy Chapman, Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Movies:

Love Actually, Shrek, Toy Story, Life is Beautiful, Amelie, Mean Creek

Television:

Party of Five. Sex and the City, Law & Order: SVU, Friends

Books:

We Wish to Inform you That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, Country of My Skulls: Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa, To Kill a Mockingbird, World According to Garp, Jacob Have I loved, The Monster at the End of this Book Starring Loveable, Furry, Old Grove; First They Killed My Father; Bridge to Terebithia; Number the Stars, Amazing Grace

My Blog

if i only had a brain


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Giving Parents a Voice

I'm in the middle of reading "Examining Poverty and Literacy in Our Schools: Janice's Story" by Connie White.  These are some thoughts that I had as I was reading: It seems that there is very lit...
Posted by It's hard to be creative under pressure! on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:22:00 PST

An Introduction to my Education at Teachers College

I'm a first year grad student at Columbia's Teachers College.  My program of study is Birth-6th grade literacy.  One mission of the school and my program is to stretch me in ways I had never...
Posted by It's hard to be creative under pressure! on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:14:00 PST