Friday, April 16, 2010
My future plans
So currently I am an Elementary Education Major, which I'm happy about, my 2 and 3 grade teachers were so amazing, they were just such amazing teachers, they always made me feel loved and like I could do wahtever i wanted in life. This is a main reason why I decided to go into Elementary Education. Well, when I was 13 I went to Niagra Falls and the aquarium there. I watched a sea lion show, and like probably every other child there, I decided that it would be alot of fun to work with sea animals, training would be the ultimate goal. Later that year we had to write a research paper on a career that we might be interested in going into. I wrote mine of marine biology and I just fell more into the idea with the things that I learned. Well, eventually I graduated and went to college where I declared in ElEd. Coming back to Florida and being in an enviornment where I am around these magnificent animals more and going to sea world and watching their amazing shows, has brought this desire back and so I have of course been doing some more research, trying to decide what the heck I'm gonna do with my life. BYU has a marine biology program!! It really does!! And in that program, I would spend some time on the West Coast!! However, I don't think I should just jump right into this. I mean, yes I liked biology when I was in high school, it is definately my favorite of the sciences, and I'm actually not too bad at it. (physics and biology are like polar opposites for me.) But In my research of becoming an aquatic mammal trainer (again, this would be the ultimate goal, and sea lions would be my first choice, over whales or dolphins although any of those would be so amazing) anyway, they do like people to have educational backgrounds... and I checked the minor list at BYU... you can't minor in biology, let alone marine biology so that sucks but what do you do?? So here's what I'm thinking, any advice/thoughts from anyone would be greatly appreciated. For now, I am going to keep my ElEd major, after I'm not in the program yet so really the classes I'm taking now are pretty much GEs so I may as well just stay declared in my current major while I finish them up. This semester I will be taking Biology so this will be a good opportunity for me to see if I still like it as much as I did. I am also going to apply to voulenteer at the Hogal Zoo (cuz people hiring for trainers look highly upon this, and you have to start somewhere right??) So after this semester, I will decide if I want to stay in Elementary Education or if maybe I want to switch to Secondary Education, and teach Biology, or if I want to major in Biology and get a teaching certification, or if I want to major in marine biology and either teach or get into the training scene (note: being a marine biologist is different than being a trainer but I figure that being a marien biologist could only help with training right? I mean, knowing about the animals I would be working with could only be considered a positive thing.) So that is my current dilemma. Oh also, I ahve been trying to get back into the getting into shape thing, well now I have motivation!! You have to be in shape to be a trainer so yay for having a reason to run. I love it!! So thats pretty much what is going on in my life, besides working, sleeping, and watching Glee, ya I started watching that... got all caught up and now I'm waiting for next Tuesday when another episode comes out. Oi. Well thats all for now. Seeya!!
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Cute blog! Can't wait to keep in touch with you more. oxox
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