Introduction

Hello. My name is Allison. I'm from Chillicothe Illinois, for those who don't know where that is, it is located about fifteen minutes north of Peoria Illinois. It is a small town about 6,000 people at the most. My dad works for Caterpillar so my family and I move around a fair amount of times. I've relocated seven times throughout my life. One of the locations was to England when I was in the sixth grade and stayed there for two years. That by far is the reason why I am a fashion merchandising major. I enjoy traveling emensly, so I wanted a career that allowed me to do so. But for now I work at Lou's Drive In in Peoria. It is like a Peorian tradition, it was open about sixty years ago and my grandpa knew Lou well so my mom worked there throughout highschool and me and my three other siblings work there now. It is kind of like Sonic in the way you drive up and park your car and a car hop comes out to ur car and takes your order, but way more traditional then Sonic. I work in the kitchen during the summer with my sister and brother where there is no airconditioning and on a normal summer in Illinois it is about 110 degrees in there. Even with the heat, I love the job, the people that work there are great and there are minimal employees. I have two siblings at University of Illinois. My sister, a senior is in her last semester as a student teacher and is graduating in the spring. My brother is a junior, however he is really smart and he is graduating a year early with changing his major multiple times. I also have a little (well not little) sister who is a junior in high school. I'm close with my family because of all the moves. I like sports played soccer since I was about 6 and I was on the dance team in my high school. I liked being involved throughout high school. Overall I have a bubbly personality and LOVE being in college!