Find Your Voice Week 2 Project

For this week's Crafting promt, create a project that tells a story, I combined a few of the challenges into a layout in my Smashbook about my education journey.  I tried to add more than just the who/what/where/when by telling the emotions I was feeling as well as the factors of my decisions.

For this section, I used the writing based prompt, tell a recent story, to talk about my struggle to find the right MSW program for me that also fits into my current place in life.

And I used my journaling from #4 in taking it further about my passion for social justice to write about my future goals of becoming Wonder Woman! ;)

Find Your Voice Week 2 - Taking it to the Next Level

What am I passionate about?

I am passionate about becoming a social worker.  Social work is a practical profession aimed at helping people address their problems and matching them with the resources they need to lead healthy and productive lives.

Beneath this practicality lies a strong value system that can be summarized in two words: social justice. Social justice is the view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities. Social workers aim to open the doors of access and opportunity for everyone, particularly those in greatest need

Within the realm of helping those with the greatest need, my biggest passion is helping children to have all of the opportunities they deserve to grow into positive members of society.  I will be starting my internship with Bethany in September.  I will be working with older child adoption.  Every child needs a loving, positive environment to live in.  It's hard to expect a child to grow up to follow their dreams when they don't live in a safe and stable enough environment to foster their dreams of what they want for their futures.  Children are our future!  We as adults in society need to make sure that we are doing what is needed to make it possible for all kids to have their needs met in childhood so they can just be kids!

52 Weeks of Blogging: Week 1

While reading some of the blogs I follow, and then following links from those blogs (and opening Pandora's box to an endless map of blogs!), I came across a new blog challenge: 52 Weeks of Blogging With a Purpose.  I have been trying to get better about blogging because I really do like keeping a journal for myself to go back and look at.  By following along with this challenge, I will have at least one post a week.

Week 1's prompt goes along with the Find Your Voice week 2 lesson...

Who Are You?

Getting started...
Name: Kimberley Poplaski
Age: 31
Hometown: West Michigan
Nicknames: Kim and Kimmy (although you have to be little and cute to get away with calling me Kimmy!)
Birthdate: Jan. 1982
Current location: West Michigan

Favorites...
Color: orange
Books: Bridge to Terabithia, Hunger Games trilogy, and The Help.  I can't think of any other "favorites" because I don't really have any books that I read more than once, so these are some of the books I have read in the last couple years that stand out to me.
Hobby: scrapbooking and photography
Food: crab legs and most things that combine peanut butter and chocolate
Holiday: Christmas.  I love shopping for the perfect gift for my family members and watching them open their presents.  I also love that Christmas brings out the giving of others to those in need.
Music:  I have a pretty eclectic taste in music!  I listen to everything from Pop to Heavy Metal, although I have a hard time with country.

Details...
Best Accomplishment: Going back to school after losing my job, staying in school when I found out I was pregnant, earning my AA, and continuing on for my BSW and maintaining a 3.75 GPA.
Worst Day: Losing my Grandma Lyon
Longest Trip: Driving to the Georgia Mountians
Furthest From Home: Lyon Family cruise to the Caribbean
Smartest Topic: it's a toss up between math and sociology
Funniest Quirk:  I really can't pick just one!

Make sure to follow along with the Find Your Voice workshop and link to where you are sharing in my comments!  I'll be "taking it to the next level later this week!"