Hi I am Carla

Hi. I am Carla and this is my second semester at CSI.

I am a native Idahoan. I was born in Rupert and have lived in Declo most of my life. I moved to the Seattle area where I lived for 15 years. I found a great guy and we got married and had 2 wonderful girls. I have 3 children. My son Lee is 37, daughter Andrea is 30 and the youngest daughter, Shauntel is 23. I have 8 grand children from the age of 3 to 18.

After my husband passed away 3 years ago, my life was in a state of limbo and I found myself spending more time using my computer. My family and friends told me that seeing how I enjoyed using the computer and being online that I needed to learn more about it. I thought they were nuts. Me, go back to school after all those years (36 to be exact).

The more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea of learning the correct way to do things on the computer and maybe not having to do so much trial and error. I have always enjoyed looking things up and learning how to do different things on line. Every time I went into a site I wondered how and who did all these sites. How did they do it? I wanted to be able to design a site and learn all I could. So here I am.

After all these years I am finally getting an education and I love it. I will admit that there are times when I wonder what I am doing here and then I just take a deep breath and try again.

In the evening I bartend at Shakers in Declo and during the day my three year old grandson (Trexton) entertains me while I am doing my homework. He is really a big help. He has lots of great ideas about what I should put in my homework and on the web sites that I am working on.

I am taking this course to learn as much as I can about JavaScript, web development and design. I figure that if I can learn something each day in my courses then it is a great day. The more I can learn the better. I also love a challenge and going back to school has been a big one, but I am going to give it my all.

Carla