My support system is my daughter, brothers, father, godparents,
and colleagues at
the job, church, friends and the professor. My daughter is only
thirteen years old and by me
being a single parent she see what I go through as
getting my college education. I make sure that
her needs are meet and sometimes she wake up in the
middle of the night and she be like “mom
you still up doing your homework and I be like yes”
so sometimes she be like mom “I am so
proud of you”.
She is my motivation of keeping me doing the best that I can do. My brothers,
father, and godparents have been a big inspiration
since my mother’s death. My plans was not
get a master’s degree but when I receive my Bachelor’s
degree my brothers was like you know
what is next. I was like what’s next I am chilling
no more degrees and they was like you need to
go for your master degree. They gave me the motivation to get my master’s
degree.
My
professors, colleagues at the job, friends and the motivates to continue to
get my education and do the best I can. I look up to
the professor of Ilene Britt because she was
my advisor at Durham Technical Community college
when I was getting my associate’s degree
in early childhood. She seen the determination that I
had and I was eager student and love being
a teacher in the early childhood education. I still
talk to her about advice and career moves that I
want to make and she be like you can do it. Since my
mother’s death my friends has step in of
picking up my daughter when she has cheerleading
practice while I am still at work or when she
has tutoring at school. My mother use to do these
things for me so I will appreciate my friends
of helping me out when it comes to my daughter. If these
people were not in my life I do not
know how I will make it. I appreciate how they are
there for me in my darkest days of losing my
mother, the phone calls, a shoulder to cry on, but I
also lean on GOD to give me the strength to
make it through. My colleagues on the job look up to
me at work when they want to further they
education in early childhood of getting their
associate and bachelors degree. They ask me
how did I start out with classes and how do I do it
of taking care of my daughter and working
a full-time job and tell them if I can do you can do
it to. I told them it takes determination and
self displine.
The
challenge for me is being a single parent, working a full time job, and going
to
college. It
gets challenge for me when my daughter goes back to school, working full time,
my daughter doing extra curriculum activities such
as cheerleading and dancing. Sometimes I do
not know if I am coming and going but that is when
my support system gives me a helping hand
and helps me out. My support system keeps me positive
and they are so encouraging and
supportive of anything I do. The most important
thing is they tell me they love me a lot and that
means more to
me than anything. It is the littlest thing a person can do to be so supportive
and
encouraging.
