Hello my name is Vicki Burks.
I live in Campbell Mo where I lived as a child and went to school. Months after graduating in 1972, yes 41 years ago, I moved to Cape Girardeau where I really grew up, for at the age of 18 I was certainly not " grown up". In reflection of that I will and do call Cape Girardeau my hometown. I have recently moved back here after learning my mother has terminal lung cancer and to help her through her last stages of life.
After some consideration, I decided to try to obtain the degree I have always wanted but was never able to obtain due to obstacles and life just getting in the way, it seems. I am a CJ major where I someday hope to become a behavioral counselor.
One of the greatest challenges that I have overcome is the ability to raise two daughters on my own after a bitter divorce and work two and sometimes three jobs at the same time and yet still manage to raise them with good morals and conduct and the knowledge that each new day was a new experience and the realization that I had unknown strengths that even I did not know of at the time.
I have the hope and goal that this class will teach me to be able to express my thoughts and words into a greater and better context and that I will acquire the ability to broaden my mind and reach new heights of an unknown horizon. I feel that this will enable me to become a more interesting conversationalist and listener and hopefully someday a reliable counselor.
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