Here I Go Again!!!

Well most of you know that I am a college student. It is pretty exciting. This semester is going to be my second and last semester here at SUU. I am pretty excited about that one. I have made a big decision and decided that I am going to transfer to UVU. Mostly so I can be closer to home and it will be easier for me to be closer to home financially and mentally. I am glad that I came here to SUU for a year. It was a super amazing experience and I have to admit that I have grown up a lot since I came here. Not living at home depending on my parents for everything was difficult but so good for me. I feel more prepared for life now. And if I hadn't come to SUU I wouldn't have met my amazing roommates and been able to have the bonds I have made with them. I don't have any sisters so it was a completely different experience living with only girls for the past 4 months but I have enjoyed it.

Last semester was really tough for me. I had a hard time with being away from my family (mostly my mom), worrying about being able to survive, doing everything for myself and having to go to school. It was a hard transfer for me. I didn't do well academically and that was hard for me because I have always done well in school. Not doing well the first semester of my college education started a fire in me. I know that I have to do well from here on out so that I can get the teaching job that I want. I have a new desire for school. I mean, I hate any classes doing with the sciences. I LOATHE them. I don't understand them and I can't wrap my mind around the things that the teachers want me to BUT I went to my geology class yesterday and as my professor was going over what we are going to be doing this semester I just got really excited for that class. It is going to be SO interesting. Earthquakes, Volcanoes and other Natural Disasters is the name of my class. I am so excited.

This semester I have set some goals for myself so that I can do well academically. I am very excited for school this semester for some weird reason. I am SO excited to get done with school and to finally be a teacher. Over the break I had the chance to go help out my third grade teacher and it was the best thing. It was so much fun to be in the class with the kids and to know that within the next few years I am going to have my own classroom. Because my third grade teacher got married last year, she is leaving and won't be a teacher anymore. She made the decision to give me most of her third grade teaching stuff. I was so excited. I am now the proud owner of a third grade capable library. I have a growing amount of third grade stuff and it will continue to grow. I am SO excited. I am happy. I can't wait to teach the third graders of the future and I can't wait for this semester to be over. But I am going to live now in the moment and be happy now. Life is to be enjoyed, not endured and I plan on enjoying it. I will keep my Head Held High through this semester and do the best that I can!!!

-Kasey :)