What I Want To Be When I Grow Up

I am in my senior year at Carthage going for my elementary education degree. I've known ever since I was in 4th grade I wanted to become a teacher and there was going to be nothing in my way to stop me. I needed to find the right college to fit my needs the best and Carthage did exactly that. I applied early during my senior year of high school and I was accepted. It was the only school I applied to. I've been working so hard over the past three years and I can't believe that in less than a year I'll finally be graduating college. At least I really need to graduate otherwise I'm going to have bigger problems and my whole plan will be ruined. I hope to be an amazing teacher. The kind of teacher that all the students like and want to have for their teacher.

Schools are going to be everywhere I go, so I just need to pick the right location that will suit me best. Unfortunately, I won't have much say in the matter. I got engaged right out of high school to a sailor who is currently stationed Guam since December 19, 2008. So where ever he goes, I will be going and the military doesn't give you many options. I knew what I was getting myself into by getting engaged to a man in the military but I was so in love with him, I couldn't picture being with anyone else but him. A couple months ago, I really realized that I needed to start making some concrete plans for what I wanted to do after graduation. And I've decided I want to go live with Ryan in Guam the rest of the time he's out there which is for roughly a year and a half until he comes back to the states and then we get married. There is a school on base over there as well as a day care center which I would like to get into. If certain things don't go the way I need them to, then my plans to go over there may be dim because there would be so many other things I would need like transportation (he only has a motorcycle right now but is looking at getting a car also), he needs to look for a place to live off base for us, a steady income to begin paying off my student loans and most importantly health insurance. It would be a horrible mistake to be without it especially in a totally different country.

Providing everything of that nature can work out, I know this is what I truly want. There will be schools for me anywhere I go in the world. But there is only one of him. He proposed in August 2006 and in October of that year he left to go to California and after a few visits here and there during the next three years, he finally left for Guam. I've been away from him for far too long and it is eating away at me more than I ever could have imagined. What I truly want out of my life is just to be happy with him and eventually a family, teaching anywhere and everywhere that our life takes us. The only other thing I really ask for is that Ryan and I are able to provide for our family in a way that will be comfortable without any struggle so I don't have to go through how my mom struggled raising me by herself.