Bout Me

Hi, my name is Cheryl Meier, I'm from Manalapan, NJ, which is Central Jersey. I have a year and half left at MSU. My major is Physical Education/Health teacher. I transfered here from Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, NJ, this is my third year at MSU. At my community college I took a wide range of classes to get my general ed. classes done with, and I loved all my classes, I learned so much, and gained a lot of knowledge from my classes. I graduated with my Associates in Social Science from there. I knew in high school that I wanted to be PE/Health teacher, mainly because I had two amazing teachers in PE that helped me through a lot. I used to be extremely active, but two knee surgeries prevented me from participating in athletics at a competitive level. My teachers kept me involved, they had me help them with their teams, I managed, I kept score and books for basketball, soccer, and softball during and after high school. I want to make a difference in a students life as they made a difference in mine, they helped me when I most needed it because at the time I didn't know what to do with myself since I had lost my outlet of being able to participate in sports. I'm still not sure which ages I would like to teach, I thought high school for while, but now I'm thinking more elementary school, I love kids, and they have so much energy, and they want to learn at that age. I have a lot of little cousins I am always around, and I consider myself a big kid at times, so I know how to work with young children very well.
As for reading, I never considered myself a big reader, I'm more of a visual learner. I would rather watch a movie or documentary so I can have the visual image in my mind, then I could read up more information on a topic because I have the visual images in my mind, and it's easier for me to picture what I'm reading. I believe reading is important, it's everywhere, even in my video games you have to read to understand what's going on and what to do next.
So for fun, I enjoy video games, big time, I'm an old school gamer, all the way from Atari, Nintendo, up to my ps2 and the Wii. I like movies, but more of a stay home and watch a movie, rather than pay $10 to go see one, I can wait to rent them, I do like to read about Greek and Roman history and mythology, that has been an interest of mine for many years. Also I like to hang out with my friends when I have the chance. I have a wide range of friends, but they're good, fun, goofy people, so I try to see them as much as possible, even though I'm an hour away from home.