Me

Hello, friends! Here is a delayed post about myself.

My name is Georgia, and I'll be sixteen in two weeks. I live on the north side with my mom, dad, and two little brothers, Frankie, age 6, and August, age 14. He's a freshman. My dad makes music for commercials and is a studio manager, and my mom works for my dad getting clients and doing taxes and such.

I went to a Catholic school for seven years, but consider myself a secular Jew. That just means I study my heritage and celebrate my culture with other secular Jews, but I'm an agnostic, so we don't talk about God as much. Instead of the Torah teaching us to worship God, we choose to see stories and lessons to learn from. I'm the teacher's assistant in the third/fourth grade classroom at my sunday school in Oak Park, where the kids learn Jewish history and traditions.

I have wanted to be a teacher since I was in first grade, but recently as I became more civically and politically active I've found my aspirations shift towards Washington D.C. I hope to one day work for change within our country's education system, especially with regards to teenagers' mental health, nutrition, and teacher's pay and position. I want to work in the White House at some point, even though the position I just described is more of a lobbyist. Maybe I can intern during or after college. Maybe once I've completed my complete overhaul I'll be a speechwriter's secretary. Can you tell I watch a lot of the West Wing?

Other than that, I enjoy reading Harry Potter, marathoning The Office and High School Musical, reading rookieemag.com and being jealous of all the young and talented and beautiful writers and photographers and artists, screaming at the internet about feminism, and pie. I think this is going to me a fun year! Good luck everyone!