Tina’s writing specialties include report writing, article writing, and blogging. She is imminently capable of researching topics and synthesizing the data into new informative pieces. She is great at creating engaging articles on various topics and can also blog on a variety of topics. She can write in a variety of styles including first and third persons, subjectively or objectively, and can cite information in several styles as well, although APA is the most familiar for her.
Tina is interested in a variety of things such as:
• travel
• daily life
• general topics
• events
• things to do
Most of these are what is included in her blog, which chronicles her journey abroad to teach English in South Korea and Morocco. It talks about her cultural experiences as well as the events, festivals, and trips she took.
Other topics of interest that Tina has not written about as yet include:
• reading
• watching movies and shows
• flying kites
• archery
• martial arts (a few kinds)
• walking
• exploring
It would be easy for her to write on these topics as well.
In University Tina studied Sociology with a special focus on justice studies. She also minored in Anthropology and Psychology, as these fields were also of interest to her. She has a well-rounded education on the human mind as an individual, as part of a social group both past and present, and historically through the ages of man and his biological predecessors.
Tina has traveled extensively throughout South Korea and around the city of Rabat, Morocco. She is well-versed in travel, planning travel, and how to navigate multiple countries, with or without the language spoken there. She took many trips and vacations of which she kept a record. Many of these have yet to be made into full blog posts on her blog, but the notes are there. How the trains, taxis, airlines, and other transportation work, and how customs work. These are all things she has dealt with in her travels and did most of it with pets.
In conjunction with her travels, Tina was and is an English as a 2nd/Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) teacher. She has taught students from pre-K to adult, beginner to advanced, and done so both in person and online. Teaching different age groups requires different approaches and materials. Teaching in person and online is also different. Tina has had to research and figure out what methods work best with what groups in what setting. This requires a lot of trial and error, but in the end, has always been successful. Some of this research and trial/error is found in her personal blog on teaching English abroad.
Tina has had many pets, and after working at a pet store for several years, knows many tips and tricks. She has rescued 2 dogs that needed extensive work who, with her help and training, were able to become normal happy dogs again. She has also had cats and many ferrets as her own pets and has taken care of a multitude of other small animals as a fosterer. The shelter where she lived didn’t take small animals, so any time one was turned in, she was called. She has cared for guinea pigs, rats, mice, hamsters, lizards, and even sugar gliders, among others. She has a well-rounded education on how to care for most pets. She even took 2 of her cats and 1 dog with her on her world travels, so she's also familiar with caring for pets in foreign countries and the customs requirements to get there.
While she hasn’t written about any of her hobbies yet, Tina has a variety of interests that she hopes to work on. Other than the obvious writing and blogging, she also enjoys reading, flying stunt kites, archery, playing music, exploring, and martial arts. Living next to the beach has allowed for her to learn stunt kiting, and at the same time, she joined her local archery club. So as a beginner in both, she hopes to learn all she can. She is currently a black belt in Taekwondo, courtesy of South Korea, and is learning Kali. She has also dabbled in Aikido. She has been an avid musician since she was 10 when she started with percussion. She specialized in mallet percussion in high school and university and also started learning trumpet. She is currently teaching herself tin whistle and hopes to add violin in the not-too-distant future as time allows. These hobbies are all journeys she is interested in learning more about and very interested in writing about as part of her life and adventures.
Now that Tina is no longer living abroad, her blog will likely change from travel-orientated to more of a lifestyle blog, chronicling her activities and changes. While she hopes there will still be many trips and fun excursions, daily life will, of course, take over. With that and her hobbies, there will still be plenty to write about as changes occur and things settle and change again. Such is the cycle of life.
Tina has been playing various instruments since she was 10. What started with percussion in middle school became mallet percussion in high school and university. Her senior year of high school also started her learning trumpet to fill a needed 4th jazz trumpet position. She continued her trumpet journey in her first-year university marching band class. For concert bands, it was always back to mallets, though. She started learning quad-mallet music during her last two years of university. After that, music became a hobby. She kept up with the instruments she had already learned and added more. She is currently working on tin whistle and has a violin waiting next. With such a variety of instruments, it is no surprise she listens to a wide variety of music from classic to hard rock and alternative, with almost everything in between. She is familiar with many musical styles, and after traveling in South Korea and Morocco, she also has some knowledge of world music and the different sounds. She has a wide repertoire to draw from for inspiration.
Tina has written some articles on events in her area. Although as yet unpublished, she has practiced the style a fair amount. She enjoys challenging herself with different writing styles and would like to write articles for papers or other media. She continues to learn and refine her technique to be able to create the best content geared toward the audience selected.
Tina has had several opportunities to write newsletter content. As part of her high school yearbook club, she sent out quarterly newsletters on how things were going. Likewise, in university, she was the historian for her fraternity organization for a year. As such, she was in charge of keeping current and alumni members up to date on what was coming up and how events had gone through a monthly newsletter. This also became part of the group’s historical records of what they had done.
Through her own blog, Tina has extensive experience with blog posts. She has also helped others with their posts by proofreading and editing content. She has also occasionally created posts on other websites she oversees when more content was necessary. She is capable of writing at an appropriate level to best achieve the writing goal and optimize reaching the target audience.
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