Introductory Post

This is me with messy hair from being
on a motorcycle
 and in the background is my sister

Hi everyone, my name is Evelyn Michaud. Some people call me Ev or Eve or Eevee, but most of the time Evelyn is what I answer to. I am 18 and I have been attending Glendale Community College since the first Summer session of 2013. I am working on the accumulation of credits and required classes to transfer to ASU to finish a Bachelor's degree in Business with a focus in Communications. I later plan to achieve a Master's degree in Communications as well. I'm very interested in the Arts, being a former theater student and art fanatic, and therefore am working on many personal art projects just for fun. I also enjoy singing, playing acoustic guitar, writing, and being a part of the Forensics Team here at GCC. This team is not the awesome "forensics" where you get to cut open dead bodies and observe the evidence of a crime scene, but a team that competes both nationally and internationally as a Speech and Debate team. I can only speak English, but I took Mandarin Chinese for two years in high school and plan to one day become fluent in it. I am taking ENG 213 because it was a choice requirement for my major and it has an Honors credit for my scholarship from the school. Even with all that however, I truly have been excited about this class because language is so interesting to me. Experiences that I have had that relate to language would probably be moving from Connecticut to Arizona 2 years ago. Moving from a place that's residents are predominantly white English-speaking folk, to a much more diverse location was huge change for me. In CT there weren't many people who spoke Spanish, and in business very few people seemed to need to use their knowledge in a second language. But here, I go to the post office and one the workers is speaking fluent Spanish to make communication easier with her customers and that's fascinating. From moving, I see how language is such a big deal in the world and how important it is that we all understand it and use it to the best of our abilities. And that's what I'm here to do. Hopefully you are too!