Hello my name is Leslie

Hi everyone!  I’m very excited to get started with this blogging assignment!  Let me start off by telling you a little bit about myself.  I am a 30 year old Taurus who loves downhill skiing, mountain biking and running.  I also enjoy films and nearly every genre of music and I am a diehard Lady Gaga fan.  My partner and I have a dog and two birds who we love.  I received my Undergraduate degree in May 2007 from UNM in Exercise Science and have been working in that field since then.  I work full time doing cardiac rehab in a hospital. I’ve taught some patient education classes to mostly elderly patients at my job but have never taught kids.  I enjoy my job and I have a wonderful boss but cardiac rehab is not my passion, which is why I decided to come back to school for a Graduate degree in secondary education to teach Science.  I would ideally like to teach high school Chemistry and/or Biology but I won’t sneer at any opportunity.  I’m just so ecstatic to finally be on the road to becoming a teacher.  I think I have a lot to offer New Mexico’s youth.  

This is my first attempt at creating my own blog.  I didn’t really know anything about blogs until I began researching them a little bit.  I still don’t feel entirely confident about my blogging abilities even after reading about them and commenting on a few.  I enjoyed reading some blogs and watching the videos that accompanied them.  They were pretty entertaining!  The blogs I visited were, “Pam’s House Blend”, “Animal Planet’s: Animal Oddities”, “No Dog About It”, and “Talented Animals”.  My favorite one was probably “Animal Planet’s: Animal Oddities” because they had Intriguing questions and stories about different and odd animals.  As I am an animal lover, I am always interested in learning about different animals and their behavior.  I also really loved that there were videos to accompany the writings.  I’m the type of person who likes to have a visual in addition to the text.  I would like to put some videos in my blog as well but it may be kind of difficult considering my blog is about a book.  I may try to figure something out to where I can add a video but it will require some creativity on my part.  The blog I liked the least was “Talented Animals”, probably because I disagreed with the author’s views on certain things.  I’m all for sharing different opinions but this author made some very hateful accusations in one of his/her posts which left me with a bad taste in my mouth for their writings. I guess I learned that this blog is one I do not want to read.  Nevertheless I’m excited to begin blogging! 

I hope you all find my blog interesting and helpful and I’m very excited to learn from you all and read your blogs.