Blogging challenge: Blog your passion

This week’s blogging challenge invites bloggers to reveal what they’re passionate about. I’m so chock full of passion that it actually scares people away from me.

If it isn’t obvious, I’m passionate about teaching. I spent a couple of years not doing any sort of teaching at all, and then found myself in Minnesota as a counselor at a summer camp. After watching me growl at the world for two years, the friend who got me the job came to me a couple of days after I arrived at camp and commented that she’d never seen me happier. It was the push I needed to convince myself that I somehow or other needed to get myself back where I was teaching something.

Today, I’m a tutor. I’m writing a blog to help kids with math. (It should be off hiatus by the end of the month…if I can get a hold of a microphone.) I’m trying to figure out how to take my skills and re-shape them into a career in either educational media or educational gaming (or some combination of the two).

I’m also passionate about just helping people. This is probably evident from the variety of topics available on this blog. My philosophy is simple: If I know something that would help you, then I want to be able to share that with you. (Knowledge is  more useful when it’s shared.)

Lastly, I’m passionate about learning. I’m always looking to learn. Currently, my self-study list includes educational media, game development, information architecture, writing, graphic design, and Montessori.

If you ever find yourself bored, hunt me down on IM (I’m kirylin on most services.) and ask me about animation or chocolate, or give me a random problem to solve. I can apparently talk intelligently at great length about all three. (I’m fairly well-versed on a number of topics. These just come up the most.)