Well Hello There...

Why hello Anth 392, and possibly my parents. I am completely new to this blogging deal, I see many do it, so why not give in to peer pressure? Or possibly obligation for marks...

So I suppose I need to say a little bit about myself. Let me first get this off my chest, I am completely and utterly SHY! Phew... it's hard coming out of the shy closet, since most of us are too shy to venture into the crazy world outside of it. So the idea of being in a class where you cannot be shy scares the daylights out of me. But this is exactly what I have searched for since I graduated high school.

Although I am very quiet and shy, I have not let this stop me from anything I have really wanted. After high school I attempted school, turns out not everyone is ready for that right out of the gates of high school. So I spent the next seven years traveling and learning what I thought to be a lot more than I did out of a text book. I did the fieldwork before the theory? Either way, I moved from ski hill to ski hill, got into competitive slope style snowboarding... then onto Europe where I traveled for a year. I came home to find out how bored I was of sedentary life, so I moved to New Zealand for a season of snowboarding in Wanaka (in the middle of the South Island, surrounded by about 4 different resorts to choose from, AKA my personal heaven). Then some more travels around North America.

Traveling lasted until last year, when I entered my 23rd year for the second time, I decided I wanted to go back to school, operative word want. I want to learn anything that strikes my interest, I do not think it matters whether or not it can be applied to later life, learning for learning's sake is probably the best thing I discovered in my travels to find myself (still looking). So now, I am an Anthropology major enjoying the stress of school and the interesting subjects the field has to offer.  I am also a scaffolder in Fort McMurray during the summer to help support my learning habits, a place that has inspired many term papers, also an excellent conversation starter as it turns out.

Either than that, I look forward to the painfully slow process of my shy self getting to know everyone in the class.