Mentors: they taught me what it means to be me.

My mentors are my friends. I laugh with them, cry with them, think with them, question them, eat with them, and just be with them. Each of my mentors came into different times of my life and brought out different parts of me. They have kept me grounded in my values,...

Summer of Love

Hello I’m First! It is so great to be back and blogging! I am having a great summer! I still cannot believe that I will be starting on my second year of college in less than a month. In the last academic school year, I took a course called, Teaching Culturally and...

Let Us Talk About Transitioning from High School to College

Well, it has all come to a very pleasing end. KIDS out there, expecting to move into college the following spring: many people will say that the transition is very hard, from high school to college, perhaps it is, I do not know. Maybe, for me, it was because I took a...

Spring Break: Utah

Bucket List: √ Arches National Park √ Canyonlands National Park √ Colorado National Monument GO BACK TO ARCHES and CANYONLANDS… (Hopefully someday soon). The Outdoor Education at Colorado College offered a six days and five nights car camping trip to Utah at a...