March 5, 2010

• Resume

  Little me:

  I learned to sing before I learned to talk

  My first best friend was a dog and we dressed alike

  I convinced my little sister that the stick of the lollypop was edible as well

  I put my baby brother in the laundry basket so he could sleep next to me

  I received the nickname “little monkey.”

  I received the second highest award you can get in Girl Scouts

  I organized and ran a booth at the Very Special Arts of Indiana when I was 12

  I went bungee jumping when I was 13

  I ran into the ski lodge while skiing. They sent me back to the bunny slopes.

  I was camper of the week

  I won the mud fight at camp ‘97

  I helped build a house in Appalachia Kentucky

  I ran a neighborhood girls baskeball team. We were called the “Pacer-ettes.”

  I got my first article published when I was 14

  I could beat all the younger neighborhood boys at basketball

  I won “Best student” in voice lessons

  I sang at the statehouse and recourded a CD with a children’s choir

  I can draw invisible (blacklight) chalk pictures

  I can bicycle with no hands

  I modified a character curriculum to fit in an alternative school and taught inner city children when I was 16

  I ride every rollercoaster

  I got a black eye in Mississippi

  I am a good whistler

  I ran a day camp for girls

  I graduated high school with honors

   

  After high school:

  I lived in a one room apartment with three juvenile delinquents

  I taught the head housekeeper of a hotel how to make a bed

  I worked at McDonalds for one day

  I lived/worked with a Russian orphan who spoke no English and I no Russian

  I got kudos for acting in a play

  I worked/lived with/assisted my elderly grandparents

  I  typed 70 WPM

  I cut 25 people’s hair over 25 different ways

   

  Youth center:

  I have successfully driven an 15 passenger van with 17 children through a snowstorm and no tire traction

  I got fuzzy slippers for Christmas from a gang banger

  I have organized activities and conferences for hundreds of inner city children

  I wrote and taught a course on making wise decisions

  I wrote and implemented an anger management course

  I organize, plan, and run an after-school tutorial program for inner city children

   

  Random:

  I taught myself to juggle using “juggling for dummies”

  I donated 10 inches of hair to cancer patients. Twice

  I piled all the kids I could into my station wagon and took them to the movies

  I only each chocolate when it is covering pretzels

  I have eaten turtle, buffalo, beaver, and ants

  I have not eaten meat since 2008

  I sing karaoke

  I am a tree hugger

  I laugh too loud, too often

  I can roast the perfect marshmallow

  I am the “spoons” champ

  I get up to watch the sunrise

  I gave coupons to nice people when I worked retail

  I found rats in NYC

  I prayed with strangers in Central Park

  I sang “Amazing Grace” in the subway

  I touched a piece of the Berlin wall

  I kissed Mickey Mouse

  I ate Jambalaya in the “Pirates of the Caribean” ride

  I bicycled through the Everglades

  I rode a bus through the Florida Keys

  I rode in a sleigh

  I didn’t go to prom until I was 24

  I was thrice a bridesmaid, never a bride

  I won my first and only boxing match

  I play hard and have the bruises to prove it

  I lived on $2 a day for a month

  I fasted Ramadan

  I can cook a good meal in thirty minutes or less

  I have run thousands of miles, one at a time.

  I have never been in debt

  I fell in love. Twice.

  I swam in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

  I pushed my car out of a snow ditch. In a skirt.

  I decorated walls with chalk, graffiti, markers, and pencils

   

  Brasil:

  I crochet

  I wrote, practiced, and presented a Christmas play in a foreign language

  I wrote and directed “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” for ESL speakers

  I learned Portuguese without a dictionary

  I (fearlessly) walked through a field of cows

  I taught “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes” to a bunch of random non-English speaking Brazilians

  I won thumb war with a man who had the biggest thumb I have ever seen

  I dreamed of doing greater things than i could and have lost many presumptions and expectations along the way.

  I created an English curriculum to teach ESL in Brazil. Starting from scratch.

  I attended a year of college where no one spoke English. And got straight “A”s

   

  College:

  I tested out of 30 credits

  I am Phi Theta Kappa

  I am on the Dean’s list

  I won second place in the college poetry contest

  I read the “Illiad”

  I attended three colleges at once

   

  Most proud of:

  I have lived in two countries and claimed them as my own

  I have a blog. Since 2005

  I write poems. Over 500

  I have written multiple books

  I have tutored children onto a better education for 11 years

  I work to give a voice to those who do not have one

  I can name children who’s lives I have been a part of and helped change

  I strive to make the world a better place by sharing the love God spills into me

  I try to live each day as if it were my last

  I have no regrets

   

   

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