Hi. This is my very first blog. I have been wanting to try this for a while, but never got around to it until now. And now that I'm finally here, I don't know what to say. For a long time I have just been sitting at my computer staring at a blank screen wondering what to write. What are you supposed to write about in your first blog? I don't really know, so I just write what is coming into my head at this moment. It may be random....it may even make some sense from time to time, but it is "my world" and this is who I am.

I am many things, among them I am a daughter of Ruth and Alvin, a sister of Becky and Alvie, an aunt to Lisa, Michael, Hannah, and Oliva, a friend to many, and a believer in Jesus Christ as Savior.

My world at the moment is teaching 4th grade at Saipan Community School on the island of Saipan. I love my job and my school! The picture you see is of me wearing a mawr mawr on my head. It is a traditional head piece that is given to you upon your first arrival to Saipan. Usually the mawr mawr's are made of local fresh flowers, such as plumeria and hibiscus, but the one you see me wearing was made from various palm leaves and dried flowers. I think it is pretty....the mawr mawr that is. What do you think?