When I was little I wanted to be an artist 👩🏼🎨, a ballerina 🩰, a farmer 👩🏼🌾, and a teacher 👩🏼🏫 all at the
same time and I told my mom I would be too busy to see her 🤷🏼♀️. With many prayers answered and miracles
experienced (I mean, mountains being moved!), one of those dreams came true.
Today was my first day of my first year of teaching! 🤍
^Look at how well Andrew did at decorating my door^
This day has been a long time coming! I started my college degree back in 2011, little did I know it would be
8 years later till I would graduate! I knew I wanted to major in special education soon after I started my first
semester of college and started to peruse it right away (by divine guidance).
The first two years were easy. I got everything done that I needed to. I left for my mission after my sophomore year
with everything lined up to apply for my major when I got back. (I could not apply beforehand because I needed to
take a math test in September to apply to the program in October, and I left in July) .
Anyways....
I went on my mission and I would not trade that experience for anything.
I got back at the end of January, so I took a semester off waiting for the fall semester to start.
I started to get information about it and it turned out while I was on my mission, the special education department
had added an additional math class I needed to take before I could apply to the program, and since I had not
taken a math class in over a year, I needed to take an additional math class before that (which I had already taken
my freshman year of college).
I just added another year so I could tack on ONE prerequisite for my major.
Frustrating but doable.
At the end of my junior year I got married, and moved down to Provo and applied for the distance education
program along with my special education program and I got in! But the distance program was not offering any
of the classes I needed for Fall 2016 semester. I looked into BYU and UVU for classes that would
transfer to USU, but none were offered. So I took another semester off.
FINALLY I could take classes in January on the distance education campus and online.
I was a part time student but I was moving forward!
While I was doing part time school I worked at a local elementary school being a special education aide
(it's like a supporting teacher). I really got to experience my career choice first hand and I got to do a lot of
my assignments for school in class. It worked out so well and I had so much support from my job! I worked
there for 3 years with the best people!
Student teaching time came, and I was offered an internship at my current school to teach for 1 full year in
the special education 4th-6th grade class. As much as I hated to leave, I turned it down because I wanted new
experiences and ideas. At the end of my student teaching, I was informed that my old school had the 4th-6th grade
class position open and wanted me to apply.
I applied, interviewed, and got the job!
Today was my first official day and it feels so good to be back!
I'm working with a lot of the kids I had before when they were in 1st-3rd grade.
I'm also happy to be working with the 1st-3rd special education teacher again because I was an aide in her
classroom for 3 years and she's pure genius.
My parents came by after school and brought me balloons to celebrate.
It was a good first day back (even if I had to chase a student to walk and follow directions, haha!).
I love where I'm at and I'm excited to finish out the remainder of the year!
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