Bio

Name: Joanna Likness

Birth Date: 5/5/81

Family: Dad, Steve; Mom, Sara; twin sister, Sonja; brother, Aaron; other brother and his wife, Joel and Tabetha; doggies, Ramona and Sally

Where I Live: High Point, North Carolina

Where I Work: Union Hill Elementary School, High Point, North Carolina

Undergrad Alma Mater: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Degree: Bachelor of Science in elementary education and English (2003)

Hometown: Durham, North Carolina

Old Hometown: Redlands, California

Previous Education: Smiley Elementary School and Cope Middle School in Redlands, Riverside High School in Durham, The University of Oulu in Finland

Home Church: Friendly Hills Presbyterian in Jamestown, North Carolina

Things I Like to Do: play my guitar (more or less), hang out with cool people who are nice enough to put up with me, e-mail, work at Child Evangelism Fellowship of Durham, take field trips to old houses, travel, collect scrapbooking stuff

Things I Really Hate: slippery floors (and sidewalks!), ironing, uncomfortable shoes, moving out or in, going to the dentist, swimsuits

Best Part of Elementary School: making new friends and going out to play

Best Part of Middle School: being a knucklehead and letting everyone to chalk it up to hormones

Best Part of High School: singing with the girls in Echoes of Gladness and When Pigs Fly

Best Part of College: making new friends and going out to play

Best Part of Elementary School (again): school lunch? :)

Big Plans for the Future:

  • August 11, 2003: begin four years (at least) of teaching in North Carolina
  • June, 2007: get back my deposit (i.e., my soul) from the state of North Carolina, thereby ensuring my freedom to travel wheresoever I may choose
  • After That: Who knows?
    [Disclaimer: All plans subject to change due to less-than-omnipotent nature of planner as well as ever-changing interests and goals of said planner.]

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