About Me

Hi, I'm Ms. Bode and I wanted to tell you a little bit about myself before I begin my blogging experiences! The purpose this blogs serves for me is an educational record of my path in the pursuit of education as a careeer; I am experiencing new things in my work with children, learing from my mentor teacher during my practicum hours, and learning from my professors and classmates every day and needed a record of that!  I am currently attending Northern Arizona University in the teaching program, majoring in Elementary Education with an Endorsement in Early Childhood Education and I hope to teach the Early Childhood grades (K-3) when I receive my Bachelor's degree and Teacher's credential in December of 2011.

From since before I could remember, people always told me I should be a teacher; partly because of my compassion and ability to connect with children (or at least I like to think) and party because I was so bossy (I used to boss around my siblings since I began talking)! After I graduated high school, I decided that I knew that I wanted to make a lot of money and be a fashion buyer; I got into FIDM in San Francisco and was planning on starting one month before life through me a curve ball. I didn't know I wanted to be a teacher until I experienced what was to come next in my life, literally a life-threatening and life-altering experience. I was a healthy, active, athletic 18-year old girl and I had a brain tumor that was taking up over 1/3 of my brain stem and I needed to have brain surgery or I would face the strong possibility of a stroke and either be paralyzed or worse; I chose surgery. I went in naive and couldn't comprehend why everyone around me was so traumatized. I came out of surgeyr as a different person; I had severe weakness (they thought I was paralyzed at first) on my left side and double-vision. I have walked in the shoes of one who is in a wheelchair, severely disabled, in constant sufferring, and I came out the other side of the sunny tunnel. After that, my compassion for my life grew to an all-time high and I knew that if I could conquer that and get to where I am now, that God had great things ahead for me, and I wasn't meant to be a business-woman or a fashion buyer, etc. I was meant to inspire lives; so I chose my niche, YOUNG lives! I couldn't be happier. :)