Inspiring Women Fall 2017

GETTING TO KNOW MEGAN
If we looked in your purse,
what would we find? Hand
sanitizer! Especially in the
wintertime, when you work
with kids this is very important.
I also tend to be very busy so
you will almost always find a
snack in my purse because I
am constantly on the go.
Lastly I always have ticket
stubs from various places,
mostly museums, floating
around in my purse. I enjoy
spending my free time
learning and I love art and
history, but I also tend to be a
bit messy when it comes to
my personal space!
If you were moving back to your home
country, what would you miss most about your
host country? German public transportation is
life-changing! I am from Texas, where public
transportation is a joke, and it is great to have
options for getting somewhere. I think that I
am also required by my German residency
allowance to say that I will miss German
bakeries, though American soft pretzels have
nothing on their German counterparts!
Which book that you’ve read recently would
you recommend? I might be late to the party,
but if you have not read Girl On the Train by
Paula Hawkins, you need to! You could not
pay me to put it down while I was reading it,
and it had such a great storyline. Definitely
worth the read if you enjoy thrillers.
What has been your favorite vacation? My
favourite place that I have been is Luang
Prabang, Laos. It is a beautiful small town that
was heavily influenced by the French and it is
gorgeous! There are waterfalls and great
food, and you can ride your bike through the
entire town. Absolutely amazing!
If you became president of a country for a
day, what would you do/change? Oh man, if
I were president of the United States for a day
it would be quite a busy day. I think that I
would definitely want to change the way
education is approached in the country.
Public schools are in desperate need of
funding, teachers are stretched thin on toolow
salaries and still expected to buy their own
supplies for their classrooms, funding for nonacademic
programs that have been
scientifically proven to help children is being
cut, children from low-socioeconomic
environments are not being served in ways to
help them succeed, the list goes on and on.
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