Barbara Jacobs:  

f my regrets is that I've lost contact with her over the years. I did a lot of wild and crazy dating my first semester - there were nights I had two dates in the same night! - but when I met Eric at the beginning of my second semester I was hooked. We got engaged shortly after we started dating and were married in May 1996. I graduated with Bachelor's degrees in Early Childhood and Elementary Education in Dec. 1996. In Summer of 1998 I started my Master's degree in Library Sciences and Information Services, which I expect to (finally) finish this May. I took a few detours along the way in grad school but am determined to wrap it up as quickly as possible. Workplace I started my teaching career at a tiny K-8 district just outside of Clinton, MO. I taught 1st grade there for 3 years and it was very much a baptism by fire sort of experience. Meanwhile we had moved quite a distance from the school to facilitate my husband's career, so in 1999 I decided to seek a teaching position closer to my current home. I landed a job teaching 4th grade at Versailles and spent one very miserable year doing that - I am NOT a big kid teacher! I quickly scuttled down to Kindergarten, which is a much better fit for me and have taught K quite happily for the last 6 years. I will have a big career decision to make at the end of this school year when our current librarian retires and I have to choose between remaining in my classroom or moving to the library media center.