Hello everybody!!! My name is KayDee Nelson. I was named after my grandfather, his initials form my name. His name is Kwen Delos. I was born on Friday the 13th and Halloween is my favorite holiday. I'm a farm girl. My entire family does rodeo. I also enjoy theater and dance. I competed in all three. Recently I have gotten into running. My husband, Justin, and I have been married for three years now. He still makes me smile. I enjoy vivid colors in all hues except any having to do with pink. I love all animals, except hairless mammals. I'm working three jobs this semester and my husband is attending police academy.

I am an English major and a Psychology minor. English, to me, is more than just the English major. English, to me, encompasses all aspects of communication. My discipline covers almost everything, and psychology covers the rest. Between communication and psychology the entire human experience is discovered and analyzed. It's very difficult for me to narrow things down. Even when I write papers, my professors complain that my thesis is too broad. I love to think of the big picture and draw connections to anything and everything. When I become a teacher I want to stress cross-curriculum cooperation.

I was drawn to my teaching disciplines because they focus on the big picture and then can be narrowed down when the big picture gets boring. I actually wanted to be a math teacher, but then I realized that if I teach English I can have more variety in my teaching material.

My definition of literacy is being able to comprehend the communication (visual, auditory, sensual, etc.) surrounding and then being able to interact with the communication on some level. Being literate, to me, does not mean that one has to be fluent or skilled. For example, I may not be fluent in biology, but I can understand how a cell wall works. I may not have more than a handful of Spanish words at my command, but I can understand some Spanish and then get my meaning across.