The Education Runaround

I have recently rejoined the ranks as a college student to obtain my teaching certification. Wow, what a difference a year makes in the college world. Everything has changed. The people you have come to know and love seem to still know you, but they also seem to be distant and unsure of who you are. Your approach to people change because of the experience you had and the experience in the "real world". I wasn't going to even go back to my college. I had decided to move on in the education ladder to pursue my Masters degree, but of course something unforeseen happens that has me going back to the day-to-day world of being in a college classroom. Now I have decided to pursue the Masters and finish my certification at the same time. Who told me I could do that and is it even possible for me to do? I don't know, but I'd rather try and fail then not to have tried at all to accomplish what I believe is necessary for me to have in the long run. I'm doing this only because I feel there is purpose for me in early childhood education.

The start of the next TEEN SAGA!

I don’t know if life would be different for me if I had left my sister when I graduated from high school. Who’s to say I wouldn’t be somewhere pregnant and with a couple of children now had I not seen what my sister went through with men coming in and out of her life.

At the age of twelve I made the commitment to say with my sister until I knew she was alright. She was more fragile than me at the time our parents died. She was pregnant at the time, and I didn’t feel like she could make it through their death and the pregnancy without me. I kept on thinking about the fact that she had no one to look up to, no one to lean on. The simple fact that she is my big sister was all I needed to keep me there with her not to mention the fact that I couldn’t leave until I was eighteen.