This is me...

My name is Leriesa Mostert, I am 22 years old, and in my second year of distance learning. I am from Malelane, a small town on your way to Mozambique's border, I currently live in Nelspruit, which isn't too far from Malelane, but not nearly as hot.

Everyone has always told me that I'd make a great teacher, because of how much I love kids, I could of course never see myself in that position, so just after school, I started studying Psychology, after my first semester, some difficult things happened to our family, and I missed some exams, and then I ended up not going back for my second semester, since during all this, I realised that I didn't really want to. During my off months, I decided to go intern at a private school and ended up loving it a lot. Of course by the time I came to this realisation, I missed the deadline for applications at universities, so I took a gap year, and applied during that year (2019), and now, we're here.

I am passionate about a lot of things, my boyfriend actually has told me that I love too many things sometimes, not that he complains, he just doesn't know how I do it, is what he says... anyway, back to the point, I love animals, and we actually have five of our own, most of them being rescues. I love to read, I love the outdoors, even with having Asthma, which makes being outdoorsy a little more difficult. To be honest, I don't even think it's worth naming all the things I am passionate about, there's just too many of them. 

After doing the first assignment for LSKM 221, I really started liking the subject, I've never really thought much about the music aspect of teaching, as the school I worked at as an intern had a qualified music teacher come in for all the grades of the school, and the teachers only used music to keep the children busy or when showing them a video or something like that. Looking at the assignment, I ended up thinking of all the aspects that teaching really entails, and I just loved it even more.

My expectations for this subject can pretty much just be summed up as me trying to get all the information I learn be applied in my own classroom one day.