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Hey yall!
My name is Kayla and I am super excited to be on steemit with all of you!!
I was born and raised in North Carolina, and graduated from UNC Chapel Hill last May. Go Heels!!!! I Majored in Global Studies and have a double minor in Social Justice and Spanish. Basically, this just means I studied cultural and political movements from all over the world, mostly focusing on Latin American countries.
College was fun and I have so many memories and stories to share! Make sure you follow to read all about it in the days and weeks to come.
My 9 - 5.... Well, more like 5 - 4 😳
In the final semester of my senior year at Carolina, I was beginning to panic. I needed to find a job!!! UNC is full of achievers, and it seemed like everyone had the best connections and knew who to talk to when it came to networking and job hunting. I am a very competitive person, so I wasn't going to graduate without a job. And not just any old job. No. I wanted a job that actually meant something to my community and to myself. I wanted to change the world! Furthermore, I wanted a nice salary with benefits.
I applied for Teach for America because I felt like it would provide me with that sense of achievement and security I was so craving post Carolina, plus I knew it would give me a chance to fight for social justice in my own home state. I just finished my first year teaching as a high school English teacher.......
It has been a ROLLERCOASTER of a year and I am still processing it all. Thank god I am on summer break right now, because I felt like I was going to die. First year teaching is HARD, especially at the age of 22. I was teaching seniors....some were just a few years younger than me. I could go on forever about this, so expect more post about my 1st year teaching experience in North Carolina with TFA!
The Whole Famn Damily
When I am not in my classroom (Or hiding in the teachers' lounge), I am spending time with my husband and 2 pets. I have a dog named Dino, and a Cat named Chula. Oh, and my husband is named Ivan. They make life worth living, so of course I will be writing about all the fun misadventures we have 🐾 🌵❤️
My family is mega dysfunctional and fractured due to several divorces, so I spend the majority of the time with Ivan and his very large, very loud, Mexican family. It is through his family that I have come to love Mexican culture. Everything about the traditions, history, and especially la comida excites me!!! I will be posting a ton about all of this, so follow, follow, follow!
What does the future hold?? 🔮
I am not 100% sure and that is really stressing me out, to be honest. I am such a planner and the fact that I don't have my life planned out is killing me. I have firmly decided that I am NOT cut out to be a k-12 teacher in the NC public schools system, but I do have dreams of being a college professor someday. I am also super interested in immigration law, and perhaps will go back to law school next year....
Who knows? Maybe I will become a whale one day and never have to worry about it 😜
Until then,
☾ - PettyWap - ☀
First, welcome to steemit!
Why do you think you are not cut out to be a teacher? Is it the lousy salary? The time it takes? Is it not the place to change the world like you thought it would be?
It's cool to see you found a husband that you can feel like you are part of a family. Your furbabies are adorable too.
Thank you!
It is a combination of many things. I will write a post about it soon! It is challenging on so many levels-- the pay, the students, the workload, the lack of support.... the list goes on and on.....
I am very grateful to have my little family! They have my back!
Glad to have you on board! Keep them coming!
thanks, Spacehead! I appreciate the well wishes!
Hello @pettywap Great introduceyourself post!!
I'm @andyluy and I've been here for a a month, a can tell youThat steemit is the most amazing thing I've ever seen at the internet so far. I'm happy seeing it grows every day!
I had some hard time on the firsts week, so I spent some time searching information to improve my experience with steemit, latter I've decided to make posts about those things in order to help the new ones to have a shortcut to get deeper on steemit.
here is some of my posts, I hope It mitght be helpful to you:
The Randowhale
Getting videos from facebook
Minnowssupport!
Randowhale update 1
Here is one post from @yoda1917 That i think Is useful to have a look too
just halt for a moment
I intend to keep posting useful info that I may be able to gather, and in a near future some give away. Feel invited to follow me and if you have any question about steemit you can ask me in any of my last posts, I'll try my best to help.
This is awesome! thanks for sharing. You have done quite a lot in just a month!
thank you @pettywap I really believe in steemit's potencial and also my contry is having a huge economic crises so I end up having count only with my personal efforts to be abre to follow my life dreams and goals.
my current main goal is to be able to afford studying in Japan (I live in Brazil)
for that I must gather about 20,000.00 US $ to be to the Japanese Emigration accept give me a student visa. So I have to work as hard as I can in here ^^
Hello @pettywap. Welcome to Steemit. I am David. I wish you have a happy journey here.
thank you! I appreciate the encouragement!!
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Welcome to Steemit ! happy to have you here. Followed. Follow me back 😘
Thanks for the heads-up!