Introduction Time!

Hey everyone! So, as you can see at the top, my name is Maiya Crow. My first name is pronounced my-uh for all you Curious Georges out there. Most times, when people see my name for the first time, they think it has a different pronunciation because of the mysterious "I" living in the middle, but I assure you that it sounds just like the ancient civilization. You wouldn't believe all the ways people have gotten it wrong. Anyway, enough about my name and more about the person behind it!

I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and only moved to San Diego for college. SD is only 2 hours away and I figured it was far enough, yet close enough to home. Usually, when people say they are from L.A. they are no where near L.A., or just mean L.A. County...because that place is huge, but I'm actually from L.A.-- it's the City in my address. Technically I am from South Central, Los Angeles and when I tell people that, they never have any idea where I'm talking about so I just say "Oh, you know the area around where USC is," and then the light bulb goes off. 

If you guys haven't guessed already, I'm sort of a rambler so forgive me in advance if I keep going on tangents. Back to me! I am a 20 year old Interdisciplinary Studies major in Public Health, Child and Family Development, and Psychology and I have absolutely no clue as to what I want to actually do after I graduate. However, I've been told countless times by many different people that it's fairly normal to be clueless in college so I am slightly mollified. Only slightly though because this is the third time I have changed my major. I love children though (hence the CFD) and over the summers and winters I work as a camp counselor for a park and recreation center for the City of L.A. I had been going to the park for years and even volunteered in high school and it kind of just turned into a job. 

I am an only child to a single mother and it's pretty much been that way since I was 6. I have a huge family though so I've never been lonely. My maternal grandparents have 15 children in total (my grandma was married once and my grandaddy was married twice before they got together and they adopted some children so...) and subsequently I have a ton of aunts, uncles and cousins. There's a ton on my dad's side too!

Coincidentally, this is not my first blog! Surprising right? I actually started a pretty girly blog about nail polish and nail decorating about one week prior to the start of this class, which is also on Blogger. Anyway, I'm sure you can tell by the aforementioned pastime, my hobby that gets the most love is polishing nails. mine and whoever else will let me do theirs. It is truly an addiction. I have never been the sporty-type girl but I do love to go on the occasional hike. My second favorite hobby is baking random things from Pinterest pics that just look good. Although, Pinterest recipes aren't necessarily the best (just FYI). I also really like to eat, so finding new restaurants on Yelp with my roommate is kind of a regular occurrance. 

As for personality qualities, I'd like to think that I am a pretty amazing person, all jokes aside, complete with humility.  On the scale of intro/extrovert-ism I am a bit of both. Probaly more on the introverted side though, so a good 75:25 ratio respectively.

 I've been told that I'm sassy, maybe even a little on the blunt side sometimes but that just makes me who I am and I wouldn't change a thing! I hope that you all will get to know me better and I am looking forward to getting to know you all as well. Have an awesome rest-of-the-semester everyone!