My name is Stephanie Ito. I am a wife, a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a friend, a neighbor, a student, and a soon-to-be teacher. I love spending time with my husband and our families. I like watching game shows like The Price is Right or shows on the Food Network when I have the time. I like cooking and I like to try out the things I learn from Iron Chef and Chopped on dinners for my husband. He is sweet even when it turns out poorly. I love to do laundry- in fact, it's not even a chore to me. I used to do all the laundry for my family of six starting when I was probably 12 or 13- all by choice. I don't have all that many inhibitions socially. Sometimes I make a fool of myself, but I usually get over it pretty quickly. It bothers me when people don't say "hello" back to me or respond when I make a joke while standing in line at the grocery store. So in this blog setting, it may be a process for me to learn to be really authentic when I am most true to my personality in direct personal interactions.
I love the fact that my chosen field of study, the social sciences, allow me to study the connections people make. We make connections across time (history), across space (geography), through trade (economics), through politics (government), and through and across social groups (sociology). The way we perceive these connections relate to our world view and our own personal stories and situations (psychology). I want to be a social studies teacher in order to show to my students these connections which allow them to interpret and analyze the world they live in.
