Going to school with my daughters, I think
it's kind of cool.
We try to meet up every once
in a while, have lunch.
It's really cool spending time
with my daughters on campus.
I am both proud and amazed of where I am right
now.
I'm going places and I've been places just
in the past few years that I never thought
about
them as possibilities.
I had been a massage therapist
and had my own practice.
And I was involved in a car accident and I
needed a new path,
and UWM became the answer.
I knew I wanted to get into linguistics and
studying foreign languages.
I just wasn't quite sure
where I was going to go with it, but I just
wanted to follow my heart.
I'm working with two very
beginner classes at ILC.
The International
Learning Center is helping to connect refugees
with
resources in the city.
They hadn't planned to be here.
They hadn't had previous study in English,
so they just kind of have to hit the ground
running, and they need to know the things
that they
need to know to survive.
I went to China just
after my second semester.
Last summer, I went to
St. Petersburg, Russia.
After UWM, I'm going to Oxford for grad school
to pursue my master’s
in applied linguistics and second language
acquisition.
That is absolutely something that I did not
think
was possible before UWM.
Especially being a nontraditional student
and, you know, having children, I figured
that the adventures were done, but the adventures
are just beginning.
