ashlie intro

hello everyone.

im ashlie nanes. im 24 (almost 25)! and i love life. i was raised a military brat, so i have lived a lot of really amazing places (italy, germany, las vegas, here). I love to travel and i love learning about other cultures and people's similarities and differences. I am obsessed with literature, both reading it and writing it. I have worked at a bookstore for over six years now and am an English Teaching major and an ESL Teaching minor. I am up for discussion on books/authors/theory, etc. anything having to do with lit. I am mostly obsessed with bike riding right now. I will be really sad when it snows, because then I won't be able to ride my bike.

I'm into art, film, and music as well. I listen to a lot of older music and am currently listening to a lot of Neil Young, Trex, and the Rolling Stones.

I want to be a teacher because I want kids to be as excited about books and reading as I am. There are a great many lessons to be learned from reading the words of others. Also, teaching English covers a wide variety of other subjects (art, history, etc etc), and I am excited to connect these subjects together.

I think that is all for now. I hope everyone is doing great and I'll see you in class Wednesday.

ashlie

Edit: Also, I would like to use technology in my class for EVERYTHING. I want to be able to show movies, share music and art, communicate writing more effectively through using computers/Internet, and maybe even use blogs for my class! This class has totally inspired me to use blogs in the classroom. Really, the possibilites are endless with technology!