Who Am I?

Good question...but seriously, here are some fun facts about me that may explain my interest in the Peace Corps...or maybe not.

I will graduate in May 2011 with a Master's of Education and hope to eventually work on a college or university campus. My undergraduate degree was a Bachelor's of Science in Gender & Women's Studies and Afro-American Studies. I have lived my entire life in the Midwest and while I think I would like to live in this area again I also want to live in other parts of the US at some point.

I have a plethora of hobbies that seem rather random and eclectic. I have been on two paleontology (digging up dinosaurs) digs, an archeology (digging up human civ) dig, and I enjoy spelunking (traipsing around in caves). Porcupines are my favorite animal after participating for 6 years in a wildlife conservation project on them. I really like biking but dislike running (but I do it anyway).

I speak fairly broken Spanish but can understand pretty much anything and on my last trip to Central America I did manage to have an hour long conversation about Maya archeology entirely in Spanish. I can also give a pretty darn good tour of a Geology Museum in Spanish. This means that I have a vocabulary in Spanish that seems impressive but that is not always helpful for day to day things.

That is all I can think of for now.

Peace,

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