Special Abilities
Some special abilities I have found
are: getting along with people, singing, Judo, taking pictures and
volunteering. I am a friendly person, who tends to get along with most people
and I enjoy meeting new people. Singing is an enjoyable part of my everyday
life. I was a member of a Judo Club (a form of martial arts) at the local YMCA
for about five years. I am most happy when I can help people and volunteering
and taking pictures are things I enjoy doing in my spare time.
Travel and Hobbies
I love
to travel and have had the opportunity to visit Poland, Check Republic,
Cameroon, Guatemala, and Rome, as well as many places in the US. When I have
free time I enjoy watching movies and my favorite TV shows. I have a stamp, coin,
and Beanie Baby collection and I enjoy taking pictures. I dislike being bored
so I try to always be involved in something, whether it is work, volunteer or
fun.
Goals
My number one goal in life is to
help people. I love being around people and helping people makes me happy. My
short term goals are to survive this semester and to pass all my classes with
great grades. One of my other goals is to get my Master’s Degree. Over my life
time I would love to travel around the world and make it to China, India, Kazakhstan,
United Arab Emirates and many others. My ultimate goal is to become a teacher
internationally, whether as a missionary in the jungles of Cameroon or in one
of the various International Schools throughout the world.
Experiences
Work
Experience
At the end of my ninth grade year, I
started my first job working over the summer for a local car dealership, Kool
Ford, washing new and used cars on the lot. Halfway through my eleventh grade
year I started merchandizing for Mission’s, a company that sold tortillas, pork
rinds, and tortilla chips. My job was to stock the shelves and take inventory at
one and sometimes two Walmart’s, two to three times per week. My second
semester of college I worked for a pastor, doing odd jobs such as cleaning out
unused rooms, organizing and recording receipts and bills, and eventually started
leading a Bible study for kindergarten-seventh grade. I also worked for two
different women doing yard work including cutting tiny trees, pulling weeds,
and moving dirt. Babysitting is a job I have done for many years, I have
watched up to eight kids at a time. Through babysitting I had the opportunity
to change diapers, potty train, cook a few things, and put children to bed. For
about a year I filled three vending machines for a local hospital and I also
cared for a disabled man. My most recent job was substituting for Accomack
County Public Schools. During the school year of 2013-2014, I substituted from
October through July, in three different elementary schools, grades pre-k
through fifth grade. The fall of 2014 I substituted in the elementary schools and
a middle school and spring of 2015 I substituted in the elementary schools.
Educational
Experience
As a student I have attended six different
schools. I began kindergarten at Sweet Haven Christian School and attended for
half a year. The remainder of my kindergarten through fourth grade was at
Pungateague Elementary School. Fifth through ninth grade I attended Holly Grove
Christian School. Tenth through twelfth grade I went to Nandua High School,
where I graduated in 2012. After graduation I attended Eastern Shore Community
College (ESCC) for two years and I graduated with my Associates in Education in
2014. I acquired an extra semester at ESCC and then transferred to Liberty
University, where I currently attend.
Teaching/Tutoring
or Experience with Children
Although
I have worked with children for years, helping with events and babysitting, most
of my experience with children has come from working in the school system. From
my experience as a substitute teacher for one and a half years I had the
opportunity to work in many different occupations with children. My first substitute
job was as a pre-kindergarten aid, I was also able to be a teacher in a variety
of pre-k–fifth grade classrooms. Other jobs that I interacted with student were
bookkeeper, one-on-one aid, specials (library, art, gym, and music), classrooms
aids (pre-k, kindergarten, special education) and even a special education
teacher in the kindergarten through third grade special education classroom.
When I worked in the middle school I substituted for keyboarding, home economics,
eighth grade English and history, seventh grade math, and sixth grade English,
and was an aid for a blind child. Through my various experiences as a
substitute I was greatly stretched in what it meant to be a teacher and to work
in the school system. I experienced loving the students even when they did not
love me back.
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