Career Day

Last week I had the privilege to participate in Career Day at my son's Elementary school.  I gave six 15 minute talks to groups of K-2nd Graders about a career in jewelry design. I emphasized that I use all my educational background right through college and beyond to do my job: math, computers, geography, writing, science, and more.

As always, the kids were a lot of fun and they wanted to touch everything.  I brought strands of pearls and gemstone beads for them to pass around. Since set up and take down time was limited I just brought a few items to display and was able to pull up my website on all the computers.

So, what kinds of questions do the little ones ask? The top two questions are: "How do you get the holes in the beads?" and "How do you make the gold?" They really got interested in finding out what their birthstones were and seeing if I had any of their birthstones with me (I did have a few).

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My demo time for jewelry design was in the afternoon. In the morning, I actually helped Master Castro of Air Force Taekwondo in North Las Vegas do a talk and demo on a Career in Taekwondo for 3rd - 5th Graders.

The kids really seemed to enjoy the demo and kept coming around all afternoon asking what happened to the Taekwondo people since we only did Taekwondo in the morning. We showed them some sparring, forms, self defense and kicks and answered a lot of questions. Some of the kids got a chance to try out some kicks too!

Every day since then I've had kids running up to me saying "Hey, aren't you that Kung Fu lady?"

TaeKwonDo and Wrestling

I've been doing TaeKwonDo for a few years now since we lived in South Korea. Self-defense is a big part of what we learn. Master Castro at Air Force TaeKwonDo in Las Vegas often ends our self-defense practice with wrestling matches since many attack situations could end up on the ground.

getting ready to wrestle with my son

He can't beat mom yet, but one of these years . . . He gets a kick out of trying--you should hear the giggles

My TaeKwonDo Belt Test

This past weekend I tested for my 3rd degree black belt in TaeKwonDo.  This is a video clip of me breaking a board.

This one is of a self defense move.