Me in 20 Years? Hmmmm....

My name is Talamanaia Sao. I am half Samoan, half Caucasian and I am from Laie, Hawaii. I am currently 18 years old and a freshman in my second semester at BYU. I am undecided and currently just working on my General Credits. I love to read but only fiction, not books that we have to read for school. I don’t like writing essays, but I like to write short stories and things about myself. I love to watch any style of movies, from romance to comedy to action to mysteries. I love Polynesian dancing, whether I am watching it or dancing myself. I love my family and hate being a burden on them. My mom is a 2^nd grade teacher and my dad is a technician in the Motor Pool plant at BYU Hawaii. I have an older brother that works as an electrician and two younger sisters that are a sophomore and junior in High School.

I am not like a lot of girls I know who have their whole life planned out, but if I were to think about what I would be like in 20 years, this is what it would be like. If I had my first choice of where I would be living, I would be living in Hawaii. If I had to live on the mainland, I would be living along the West coast, in California or Utah or Arizona. I will be married with 4, maybe 5 kids and twins. In 20 years, I am not sure where I would want to be working, but I am thinking that I want to be more of a stay at home mom/ wife, maybe even work from home. I hate the thought of depending on someone else and I want to be able to provide for myself as well as my family. I have decided that I am also going to be rich, but still work. I want to be able to buy my parents a house and whatever else they would need to live and not worry about anything else. Out of work, I will do everything I do now: read, watch movies, help other family members and their families, do service, and anything that I feel like doing. If I had my choice in callings, I would want to do something in the Primary or Young Women’s program. I like the idea of being either a teacher or part of the presidency. Even something in the nursery program would help and be fun for me. My husband would be a mechanic and would make a lot of money and be able to support the family. He would also have a calling as a part of the Young Men’s program or something with me in the Primary or Nursery. I think that it would be so fun serving with my husband, but if not then I would be fine with anything else.

The most difficult question to answer out of all of these was the question about what I would want to be working as in 20 years. This was the hardest because I have no idea what I want to major in. I’m thinking about being a counselor of some sorts but I am still unsure and I don’t want to get into it and not like it. So this question was pretty hard to answer.