The First Post: Why I'm Starting This

I've always had a passion for writing and storytelling.

I think there is something beautiful and maybe even vulnerable in the way authors go from brainstorming various ideas to conceptualizing and creating a story. Their stories are their babies, objects of affection they have worked on for hours, days, months, even years, and they take their creations seriously.

The purpose of this blog is something a little different. This blog will tell a story, but it will tell a rather long and drawn out story and I have no idea how it will end. Honestly, I have no idea how it will begin either.

I'm writing to document my experience with Teach for America in New Orleans. I'm writing for myself, my sanity, and those whom I have come to love deeply over the past four years of my collegiate career. Basically, my life is going to start moving at warp speed within the next few days and subsequent two years.

Maintaining this blog is going to be my way of working through many upcoming adventures, from Institute to the first day in my classroom and beyond. It will also be a chance for friends and family to keep track of me if they choose to do so. They can make sure I'm not in jail or something like that.

Because I'm a storyteller though, I can almost guarantee you that some things may be slightly (take that how you want to) embellished. That's just the way I am. I'm not overly dramatic in real life, but when it comes to writing, I tend to get a little carried away sometimes. Just ask my mom, I used to come home from half- day kindergarten (because that existed in the 90's) and tell her we went on outlandish field trips to places hours and hours away.

Anyway, I hope I haven't scared you away already (whoever you are), but I if I did, sorry! Thanks for reading my first post EVER and I will see you soon.