An Intro to Ashley

 

Hi everyone my name is Ashley and I’m in my third year at City Tech and my first semester in the PTW major. I currently work at Sesame Flyers International, which is a non-profit that provides year round activities for youth throughout Brooklyn and a mas band during the summer. When I tell people my job they automatically assume I want to work with young kids but that couldn’t be further from the truth. My goal is to teach in a high school for at least 10 years and to write several books that have a positive impact on the younger generation. Since I was about 10 years old I’ve always been drawn to helping younger kids with homework or with whatever problems they were having. Something about knowing that I made a difference, if only for a day, has always been my ultimate goal when working with anyone. Over the summer I had the opportunity to supervise 15 SYEP(summer youth employment) workers. All of the participants were freshman and sophomores in high school and by the end of the summer they all became more siblings to me. The most exciting part of the summer is the last two weeks before Labor Day when nobody at my job sleeps and we put all our effort into to making beautiful costumes for the parkway.

I’m comfortable with myself as a writer, however, I’ve noticed that procrastination is too much of my friend in my assignments. It is both my strength and weakness because when I procrastinate I produce my best work while severely depriving myself of sleep. The one positive thing I can attribute to my writing is the ability to connect with a topic and bring a sense of familiarity to any piece. I’ve actually taken a classes that required weekly posts on OpenLab, so I am very familiar and comfortable with posting my thoughts and observations on a variety of topics.

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If I’m being honest, I know nothing about science fiction. The only thing I can think of is “The Twilight Zone” and the Sci-Fi channel.

Throughout my life I’ve switched career choices about fifty times. It went from chef, to president, to actress, to writer, to singer, to lawyer and finally an educator. The only connection that stuck between all of these changes is a need to communicate efficiently and write to the best of my ability. From the time I heard about the major, PTW seemed to be my best fit. As the semester progresses, my greatest hope is that the course aids in my progression as a writer and critical thinker.

4 thoughts on “An Intro to Ashley

  1. Welcome to the course Ashley! You have wonderful, ambitious goals as an educator and writer, and this course will definitely help you work towards achieving them. Sesame Flyers sounds very interesting: I look forward to hearing more about it as the semester progresses 🙂

  2. Hey Ashley!

    So after re reading your intro i would add the tags,

    Mentor: because it seems like you have a passion for doing just that and being there for the youth in your community.

    Grounded: because you know your strengths as a writer and use them to your advantages.

    Open minded: because you’ve tried a variety of different majors and career choices and took something from each of them.

    🙂

  3. Tags:
    Project Manager – You obviously like planning and executing projects.
    Well rounded – You have experienced in several different things.
    Adventurous – You appear to be willing to take challenges.

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