Introduction to Me...

Hello Everyone, my name is Patricia Graves, but you can call me Trish. I am 23 years old and will be turning 24 this Friday. I grew up and went to high school in Queens, NY. I graduated high school in 2001, then moved upstate NY and enrolled in Orange County Community College to major in visual communications. After graduating with an A.A.S in vis. com. I took two and a half years off of college to actually figure out what it was that I wanted to do with myself, because I knew that wasn't for me. I couldn't see myself sitting behind a computer for the rest of my life. One thing that I was sure of even before I gratuated OCCC was that I wanted to bartend, and I have been doing so ever since. I found myself then applying to Montclair... after the two years that I spent "figuring out" what it was that I wanted to do, I finally came to the conclusion that I wanted to become an art teacher. After taking all of those art classes at OCCC, being influenced by the greatest teacher of all, (to this day no professor has proved me wrong, but maybe that will change), and then spending time with children, to me it sounded like a plan. Now, I am in my last year at Monclair, and I couldn't be more sure that being an art teacher is the proffession for me. I am only taking this class this semester, working to save up as much money as possible, looking forward to and preparing myself for student teaching next semester.