All About Me-Blog 1

My name is Anne Barnett. You can call me Annie. I am currently a senior majoring in Mathematics. With this I am going to teach high school math. So after I get my math degree I am going to get a Masters in Education. I just recently transferred from University of Idaho, I was there for three years. At Idaho I competed for the track and field team. Here at Eastern, I am on the womens basketball team and the track and field team. Obviously, my interests are sports. I don't really have any time for anything else in my life. If I were to have time though, I enjoy outdoor activities, but most of them I have been not allowed to do yet. For example, I have never been skiing, snowboarding, snowmobiling, sky diving, white water rafting, rock climbing, hiking, mountain biking and only have went camping once due to sports. One thing that I have done is basketball, soccer, track, volleyball, hockey, ballet, tennis, and softball.

My family is very interesting also. I am number 6 in my family. Yes, number 6 of 9. The fact that I call myself a number sometimes, people tend to get a laugh out of that. Of the 9, 3 are girls, and 6 are boys. My whole sports is my life thing, is really because I was raised with 6 brothers and so the girls are pretty tomboy-ish. Also, we are a pretty athletic family; the shortest person in my family is my sister and she is 5'7". The tallest is my brother who is 6'6". So everyone else ranges from those two. Hence, tall family.

Reading... I had a hard time with this growing up. When I was younger, I had to go to a special reading teacher to work on it. So throughout elementary and middle school I struggled immensely with it. I have always been gifted in math, but reading just slowed all my learning down. In elementary school, I was a very hard worker when it came to doing homework and getting things done. But, I had to work five times harder than most students because I struggled with reading.

During middle school, I slowly become better. I started to enjoy reading because it wasn't just a chore anymore. Even though I had a low reading level, I could still find books that interested me. The thing that I struggled with was that I could read just fine, but I couldn't put together the words and understand the story. So when asked a question about what I read, I had no idea. When I got to high school, my reading had improved a lot, and I read a lot. But my vocabulary was still behind. Slowly, I built it up and to this day I would still say I am a little behind in the vocabulary part of my grade, but not noticeable when you just talk to me.

I like to read a lot of different things. I really enjoy books that have a 'meaning' or 'purpose' in them. So I enjoy christian books; I have read a lot of Karen Kingsbury. I also enjoy John Grisham. I like all kinds of books, I just have to get hooked towards the beginning of the book otherwise I will give up on it.

My mom reads a lot. She is into the 'older' women books that have romance and have the half naked people on the front. The books that look like soap operas. She reads a book every two or so days. When she has time off in her day, thats what she does. I can relate to her in the fact that if I had breaks and wasn't dead tired from sports, I would love to just read day in and day out. I also have a younger brother that reads all the time. He is more into the Harry Potter and fiction books of gobblins and things of that sort. My older brother is the same way as my younger brother. Gobblins, Gobblins, Gobblins. I don't think he has read a non-fiction story in his life. Well, maybe he has but probably would not admit it.