I'm a graduate student. I study psychology and love reading new research. I like to kayak. I have diverse music tastes. I enjoy a lot of different music including classical and heavy metal. I am working on my thesis as a part of my studies. My thesis is on non-verbal communications. I read a lot of science journals. I like autobiographies and science journals. I read a scientific article on non-verbal communication. I worry about younger generation addicted to latest technology. I completed my thesis. I'm working to get my PhD.
I teach elementary school, like my parents did. I teach 3rd grade. I love board games. My favourite band is up, I've been to a concert of theirs. I love teaching reading the most but love teaching all subjects. I have a little reading area with nonfiction and fiction books in my classroom. My students gravitate towards fictional fairy tales and sci-fi more than factual writings. My students are genuinely like to learning,  playing Dominoes, chutes and ladders. I avoid computer in the classroom.
Now that I've finished my thesis I think I'll finally have time to go out kayaking again. I bet that is very exciting. I hope you have an amazing time. Where will you go to do that at? I will probably travel to Utah and California, I heard there is great kayaking there. I am glad you know where you are headed! When will you get your grade on the Thesis? Are you going crazy waiting on it? I'm not too worried, I've done the best that I can and I'm pretty sure it's going to be an A. I'm probably one of the smartest people ever to exist in the whole galaxy. It is refreshing to see someone so confident in their intelligence, but the galaxy? That is a bit out there. (Man I love puns.) But that brings up the debate, are aliens... people? What do you think? Can only humans be people? It's pretty broad around here, I even read that some people think corporations are people! hahaha It probably depends. What is considered alien? Like if the aliens are made up of similar genetic coding and/or have the same basic make up as us, then would they be people? Or would them being from another place make them alien and therefore keep them from being considered people? I don't know. Now if they were like, I don't know, talking bears... Well then they wouldn't be people, but also not quite animal.  Perhaps it's a broad term that will never be completely defined. It will ebb and flow with the constructs of mankind's governance and culture. Personhood really becomes the dilemma. Do alien beings deserve human rights? Do humans deserve Alien rights? Should all life have equal rights, regardless of the perceived rank in some kind of natural order? Yeah, those are all great questions. And depending on what is decided, which aliens would it cover? There is a book series that I absolutely love, and wish was more age appropriate for my students. It is called Acorna. The Author has made up evil aliens that are like giant beetles that kill everything they come into contact with, a planet with only plant life, that secretes this stuff to kill off any non planet organic stuff, and even alien singing stones that are actually able to speak to each other and that make a different sound. So would the stones be looked at as a thing even if proven sentient, and even if the plants were considered to have equal rights? It is all a lot to think about.