I was a student teacher at an inner city school and I saw alot students struggling with eating healthy food when they go home after school. I also worked at a garden center that sold vegetables. I would love to grow my own vegetable gardens and donate some of that produce to my local inner city school community. Ideally, I would love to teach my students how to grow their own vegetables and give them plants to do so but I dont know how I would accomplish this yet.
I am going backpacking in Europe for a month in May. It is a graduation gift to myself and Colin wants to go on a trip with me as well. I said a great way to do this was for me to save backpacking in the UK just for me and him. I want to do this because it will be an amazing oppurtunity for Colin and I to learn how to be the best team we can be, in travel and in life.
I want to backpack through Europe because I feel like I have worked very hard in the last 5 years for school and i feel like I have grown as a person in the last 5 years but I want to learn to be independant. I want to experience something on my own, without my parents or my boyfriend guiding me along through a moment in my life. If I do not do this now, I will never do it. I also think that when you have a boyfriend for as long as I have (and I am not downplaying my relationship with him because he is my world) you lose a part of independant self in that person. I want to discover the authentic me and I will not find this necessarily in Europe but I will find it with my girlfriends and find it by taking care of myself, on my own with positive reflection.
