Jumpin on the bandwagon

Figured I'd let all of you get to know me a little, since many of you have done the same.
My name is Mikayla Napier.
I am 18 years old.
I am from Santa Cruz, California. For those of you who don't know where that is, it's about an hour and a half south of San Francisco. It's a pretty sweet beach town where the majority of the population is either a hippie, a surfer, or a bum and this place floods with tourists June through September. I fall under the surfer category.
I have 9 siblings but they are all step or half (the parentals divorced when i was 4) and they range from 2 to 28.
I have a German Shepherd named Tasha who is 7 years old and I absolutely adore her.
I am going to be a sophomore this coming year, majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies with plans of going into the Occupational Therapy program, in the long run my hope is to work with kids with special needs. My junior and senior year of high school I was out of school everyday between 10 and 11:30ish (I took a lot of classes my freshman and sophomore year so didn't have much left for the last two years) so I decided to make use of this extra time by volunteering in a special needs class in an elementary school for the two years. The first year I worked with a 10 year old boy with Down Syndrome and the second year I worked with a 7 year old buy with Autism, long story short my life was changed by these young men and this is where I came to the conclusion that this is what I wanted to do with my life.
I was real big into sports throughout high school, I played a season of football (yeah, on the guys team), 3 seasons of basketball, a season of track, a season of volleyball, and a season of cross country, until about halfway though my junior year during basketball season, I was playing pointgaurd, two defenders came at me, I planted to stop and pass and my knee cap dislocated which was the end of my high school sports career.
I also worked two jobs throughout high school (one at a grocery store, the other at a Taqueria, and then last summer I worked for Environment California with a bunch of crazy hippies and at a pizza place as a waitress) I coached a middle school softball team, and volunteered every summer at a christian camp.
I am one of those people who gets bored easily so that list of activities I just gave was my solution.
I hope you all are having a great summer and I am looking forward to working with everyone.
As of right now, I think that is an adequate amount of information. Although it was basically a recap of the last 5 years of my life, I think that how you spend your days can be a good glimpse into the type of person you are. Going along with that last statement, I will end with this Annie Dillard quote "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."