Blog Entry 1- My Perspective

   I always struggle to answer the question, “Who am I.” I believe with each passing day I am something different, and as time progresses I become someone new. The fact that I am a daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece, cousin, friend, and a girlfriend does not change. Sometimes I am a talker while other times I am a listener. I can be a hardworking student as well a procrastinator. There are times I get stuck talking about myself, my values and beliefs. I believe in many things and believe many different factors define who I am.

  My family is my number one frame. I have learned many life values from both my parents. I learned about the importance of education to get places in life, the importance of spending time with your family and appreciating what you have and the importance of living life to the fullest. I believe my parents are the biggest contributors to the person I am. They have influenced me to better myself since I was able to walk and talk and pushed me to the limit. My grandparents have always been the foundation of my life. Thanks to them I understand the significant of morals, beliefs and life value, and good food.

   My purpose in life is to leave my mark in history, to become someone who impacts the life of many and inspired them to do well for the benefit of life. I aspire to be a per-kindergarten teacher because during these young stages in a child’s life is what defines who they will become in a later life, and by nurturing their hunger for learning they will strive to be the best they can be. As I read “Introduction to Sociology” by Peter L. Berger I was intrigued when I read this following quote. “Any intellectual activity derives excitement from the moment it becomes a trail of discovery. In some fields of learning this is the discovery of worlds previously unthought and unthinkable….” I can relate this quote to my goal of teaching young children because if you  give a young child a box of Lego’s or clay and watch as they make something completely unique, as when you give a toddle a plain box and watch as a world of imagination is unleashed.

   When relating my life to the sociological imagination as such as social events (or historical) that shaped me and the way I see the world would have to be the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. I was in elementary school the morning of the event and remember looking out the window just as tower two collapsed and the gasp and terrible silence that filled the school. Soon everyone was getting picked up by their parents while mine were vacationing leaving my younger sister and I in the care of my aunt. The recent shooting in Newton, CT was one that also touched very closed to home for me as a future educator. I think I would have done the same as the teachers who put their students’ lives in front of their own. I guess that is “Who I am.”