Failure.

They say you can't fail if you don't try. So here's to failing. Writing has never been a strong suit of mine. My grammar..... let’s not even go there. Since we are avoiding my grammar we might as well add spelling to the list as well.

Why create a blog if overall you suck at writing? 

This blog is meant to help organize my ideas of how to take over the world.

Or at least get to know it better.

This blog is my first date in what I hope to be a promising relationship of documenting my adventures as a progressive minded girl who wants to travel the world. 

So since we are playing the let’s get to know each other game I guess I'll start.

I like long walks on the beach, candles, romantic boat rides..... oh wait,  not what you want to know? My badness (is that what the kids are still saying these days?).

My name is Andrea. 

I'm a young progressive female who grew up in Washington State.

The past four years of my life have been spent in the lovely state of Montana.

I will be graduating college soon with a degree in Wildlife Biology, but will be attempting a career in politics.

Why politics you ask? Nobody really likes politics right?

Well you see I'm that girl, that girl who would rather talk about what small grassroots organization is helping to empower women in Africa than talk about the $300 shoes I don't own. I love the idea of being able to truly make a change in this country. Now don't get me wrong I understand that there are in fact a lot of issues in the way in our government works but each one of the issues is something that people in other countries are dying for the chance to fix. 

It is through traveling that I have grasped an understanding of how the world truly views our livelihood as Americans. This is a journey that I wish to continue. We can only better ourselves by bettering the planet as a whole.

Across my left shoulder the words “I am because we are” are forever inscribed in black ink. This is a saying I use to remind myself both in my travels and in my career path. As individuals we are good, but as a species we can be great.

But that's me, a non-god fearing girl who wants to help the world.   

                                                                              Me in El Salvador December of 2010