Things Are Changing.

So as you may have noticed, I haven't been posting much here on NicoleStyle101. And honestly, my only excuse is that I'm trying to figure out with I am. I've been on this journey for 20 short/long years, and it surely took me that long to figure out who I am and what I want to do with the rest of my life.

My senior year of high school, my school basically forced all the seniors to go to college. If you decided to not take the college route, you were definitely looked down upon. I had no freaking clue what I was going to study in college because I really wanted to go to beauty school and be a professional makeup artist. I enjoy makeup more then anything when it comes to hobbies so I thought that was what I wanted to do. Growing up, if you would have asked me what "I wanted to be" everyone would have known I was going to be a teacher. I didn't play house, I played teacher. I had popsicle sticks with pretend students' names on them and I would call on the students to do the math homework on the board. Or read the next paragraph in a book. As I grew up, I had 2-3 people tell me that teaching was the WORST field to go in to.
The money sucks.
The president is making things worse.
It's too stressful.
The state is taking our money away.
The state is controlling the testing.
It's miserable.

So as I started my freshman year of college I majored in psychology. My plan was to become a counselor and help children who had a rough family life. I realized that was not 100% for me. Then I changed to nutrition. Then I changed to business. Then I changed to communications. Here's the thing, all this time I dabbled in a few of these classes from each major, and basically hated them all. During the 3 semesters I was in, I had been taking an education class each semester to fill a General Education credit. I met a friend (who is majoring in edu) who convinced me to take these classes to fill the GE credits. While taking these classes, I didn't not like them. I enjoyed them.

ANYWAYS, long story short… I've changed my major to early childhood education. It took me twenty years to finally stick up for myself and do what I want to do. I know my family supports whatever decision I make, whether it be a professional makeup artist or second grade teacher.




Here's how this all relates to my blog_____________
As I'm changing, I want to change my blog too. I, obviously, am still into makeup and fashion and fitness which is what I've been posting all along. But I want to post things related to what I learn about teaching. DIY's. Crafts. Experiences. Recipes. Organization. Just more all around life things.