November 25: THANKSGIVING!!!

Well, Happy Thanksgiving!!! I am so happy that I have given "thanks" all month and I am so proud of myself to stick to something this long. I know I still have 5 more days for November "thanks," but this has been a pretty awesome accomplishment thus far.

I am thankful today for everything... Everything in my life that has come to shape me into who I am today.

I am thankful for the people in my life- the ones I once met, the ones I know, and the ones that I am still waiting to meet.

During my transition from High School to college, I decided to see if Art school was the right thing for me. With the help of my mom, I enrolled in a month-long class at the American Academy of Art. It didn't take me long to meet a friend, she was a Polish immigrant with a thick accent. She soon became my lunch buddy, my commuter companion, and someone to share my charcoal pencils with. Even though our friendship ended at the same time as that class, I will never forget the time we gave a homeless man her cucumber and cream-cheese sandwich only to turn around and watch him throw it away. We laughed the entire way back to class.   

I am thankful for all the places that I have traveled to and all the cultures I have experienced.

I have had some of the most amazing opportunities to see the world. I have been to Florida countless times, worked in California for two amazing summers, volunteered in North Virginia, traveled to mulitple towns in Italy, and seen some of Greek's best islands. But this list barley scathes the surface of everything I have done and seen and the people I have met along the way. One of my favorite stories is about a generous man in Syros, Greece.

I am thankful for all the opportunities that I have been given including my education and my parents who worked hard to get me to my last year of college.

It seems like it was just last week that I was sitting in Tia's Senior art class telling her what exactly jello shots were, or in Senora Meyer's spanish class trying to conjugate verbs, or reciting a monologue from "Best in Show" for Miss Brady's theatre class. However, I am well past that point of my education and and on my way to graduate with my B.S. in Communication Arts and Literature Teaching.

 (Don't worry, I won't be sharing that jello shot recipe with my students... EVER)

So......

Thanks!!! 

To everyone, every place, and everything that made it possible for me to be me.