http://www.bakersfieldvoice.com/home/Blog/meandpete/31232 Hello, my name is Elka Wyatt.&nbsp; I was not born here but I was raised in Bakersfield.&nbsp; I moved away a few times...but have always come home to Bakersfield.&nbsp; I recently moved to a home in the Northwest and really love it out this way.&nbsp; I certainly do not miss the chaotic and usually criminal environment of the South part of Bakersfield.&nbsp; The Northwest is a welcome change for my family. I am a self employed hairstylist.&nbsp; I work at Hot Hedz Salon on White Lane and Stine Road.&nbsp; I am also working part time at Mod Hatter in the mall.&nbsp; I am always accepting new clients.&nbsp; In fact, if you mention this blog, you will get services at the Friends and Family rate.&nbsp; You can check out some of my work on myspace...&nbsp; www.myspace.com/hair_by_elka&nbsp; Just call or text me...661-364-9835 or on the salon phone 661-831-4339 as I only see clients at Hot Hedz by appointment only.&nbsp;&nbsp;At &nbsp;I will usually post my schedule in a bulletin on myspace so if you are interested, add me as a friend.&nbsp; My ultimate goal is to get enough clientele in the Northwest so I can eventually move to a better salon in this area.&nbsp; I have been with my &quot;forever fiance&quot; for nearly 11 years.&nbsp; We have six kids ages 19, 17, 17, 16, 14, and 8.&nbsp; We also have a grandson due in October which I will get into in another post.&nbsp; I am starting college on August 25 at Bakersfield College.&nbsp; My major is journalism.&nbsp; I am not sure how far I would like to go with it but it will be pretty cool to find out how far I can go with it.&nbsp; I will probably be using this as kind of like a journal.&nbsp; I am always open to advice, constructive criticism, and comments.&nbsp; I am outgoing, usually pleasant, fun loving, and charismatic.&nbsp; I enjoy karaoke, dancing, blogging, talking with friends on myspace, barbequing, going to the beach, reading&nbsp; and spending time with my family. &nbsp; &nbsp; Hello, my name is Elka Wyatt.&nbsp; I was not born here but I was raised in Bakersfield.&nbsp; I moved away a few times...but have always come home to Bakersfield.&nbsp; I recently moved to a home in the Northwest and really love it out this way.&nbsp; I certainly do not miss the chaotic and usually criminal environment of the South part of Bakersfield.&nbsp; The Northwest is a welcome change for my family. I am a self employed hairstylist.&nbsp; I work at Hot Hedz Salon on White Lane and Stine Road.&nbsp; I am also working part time at Mod Hatter in the mall.&nbsp; I am always accepting new clients.&nbsp; In fact, if you mention this blog, you will get services at the Friends and Family rate.&nbsp; You can check out some of my work on myspace...&nbsp; www.myspace.com/hair_by_elka&nbsp; Just call or text me...661-364-9835 or on the salon phone 661-831-4339 as I only see clients at Hot Hedz by appointment only.&nbsp;&nbsp;At &nbsp;I will usually post my schedule in a bulletin on myspace so if you are interested, add me as a friend.&nbsp; My ultimate goal is to get enough clientele in the Northwest so I can eventually move to a better salon in this area.&nbsp; I have been with my &quot;forever fiance&quot; for nearly 11 years.&nbsp; We have six kids ages 19, 17, 17, 16, 14, and 8.&nbsp; We also have a grandson due in October which I will get into in another post.&nbsp; I am starting college on August 25 at Bakersfield College.&nbsp; My major is journalism.&nbsp; I am not sure how far I would like to go with it but it will be pretty cool to find out how far I can go with it.&nbsp; I will probably be using this as kind of like a journal.&nbsp; I am always open to advice, constructive criticism, and comments.&nbsp; I am outgoing, usually pleasant, fun loving, and charismatic.&nbsp; I enjoy karaoke, dancing, blogging, talking with friends on myspace, barbequing, going to the beach, reading&nbsp; and spending time with my family. &nbsp; &nbsp; en-us Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:05:53 PDT <p>Wow!  Welcome, Elka -- what a beautiful name.  I love it that you are a Northwest "transplant."  :)  Welcome, enjoy, stay, blog, and write articles, too.  As you may guess, journalism is very near and dear to my heart.  Please make <i>The Voice</i> your writing home.  There are all sorts of topics on which to write, and I think you'll find our blogging community one of the friendliest around.  </p> <p>Take care, and I look forward to hearing all about your journey as a B.C. student.  Our publisher, Olivia Garcia, teaches a journalism class up there.  If you have the opportunity to take her class...DO!  </p> <p>~Dana</p> http://www.bakersfieldvoice.com/home/Blog/meandpete/31232/#c_285888 http://www.bakersfieldvoice.com/home/Blog/meandpete/31232/#c_285888 <p>Wow!  Welcome, Elka -- what a beautiful name.  I love it that you are a Northwest "transplant."  :)  Welcome, enjoy, stay, blog, and write articles, too.  As you may guess, journalism is very near and dear to my heart.  Please make <i>The Voice</i> your writing home.  There are all sorts of topics on which to write, and I think you'll find our blogging community one of the friendliest around.  </p> <p>Take care, and I look forward to hearing all about your journey as a B.C. student.  Our publisher, Olivia Garcia, teaches a journalism class up there.  If you have the opportunity to take her class...DO!  </p> <p>~Dana</p> <p>neat!! looking forward to reading your stuff!</p> http://www.bakersfieldvoice.com/home/Blog/meandpete/31232/#c_286486 http://www.bakersfieldvoice.com/home/Blog/meandpete/31232/#c_286486 <p>neat!! looking forward to reading your stuff!</p> <p>Dana...I am taking the class that I&nbsp;believe she is supposed to be teaching...Media and Society...I guess she is on maternity leave or something like that.&nbsp; Anyways, it's a great class...all of them are great and I am having a wonderful time.&nbsp; I love learning and feeding my mind.</p> <p>I am a hairstylist so the artistic side of me is always challenged.&nbsp; Now I need to be academically challenged...I am already mentally challenged...LOL</p> <p>I just feel like there are so many changes that I need to make in my life before I can be happy with who I am.&nbsp; I love doing hair, but I just feel like I am supposed to do more with myself.&nbsp; I enjoy writing.&nbsp; I enjoy reading.&nbsp; Everyone always teases me at home because I am always with my nose in a book.&nbsp; I have stacks and stacks of books in tubs in the garage and I have read every one of them, some of them more than once, some of them even more than twice.</p> <p>I love romance novels, especially if they are in a medieval or pioneer setting.&nbsp; When I had my hot tub, I would sit out back in the hot tub for hours reading.&nbsp; Now, without it, I sit in my bathtub reading.&nbsp; Ask anyone in my house...Mom's favorite pasttime is reading.&nbsp; Television bores me.&nbsp; There are way too many reality shows in my opinion.&nbsp; I feel that they show people at their worst.&nbsp; There is really nothing that catches my interest as far as they are concerned. I do like documentaries like on the History Channel or on Discovery.&nbsp; I do like shows like Law and Order...all of them, CSI...all of them and certain movies they show on Lifetime.&nbsp;</p> <p>I am looking forward to taking History classes at BC.&nbsp; History fascinates me.&nbsp; European History, because my mother's family is from Europe, American History, because events of the past shaped this country into what it is today.&nbsp;</p> <p>When I was in high school, I could care less about all of that.&nbsp; The only classes that interested me was science.&nbsp; I remember failing every class except Orchestra and Life Science.&nbsp; I got A's in both of them.&nbsp; Go figure.&nbsp; I have a bit of ADD (not ADHD) and it seemed as if I only excelled in the classes that kept me interested.&nbsp; I was always in my own little world and it drove my teachers crazy.&nbsp;&nbsp; One teacher wrote that I liked to daydream.&nbsp; It was more or less tuning out because there was nothing that held my interest.&nbsp; But Life Science was a breeze for me.&nbsp; Learning about amoebas and chromosomes and fungi and spores...it all fascinated me and out of the many classes I&nbsp;took, this was one of the few that was able to grab my attention.</p> <p>So now that I am older and have learned how to control the side of me that is easily bored, I am finding a whole new world out there called education, and it is pretty darn exciting.</p> http://www.bakersfieldvoice.com/home/Blog/meandpete/31232/#c_310734 http://www.bakersfieldvoice.com/home/Blog/meandpete/31232/#c_310734 <p>Dana...I am taking the class that I&nbsp;believe she is supposed to be teaching...Media and Society...I guess she is on maternity leave or something like that.&nbsp; Anyways, it's a great class...all of them are great and I am having a wonderful time.&nbsp; I love learning and feeding my mind.</p> <p>I am a hairstylist so the artistic side of me is always challenged.&nbsp; Now I need to be academically challenged...I am already mentally challenged...LOL</p> <p>I just feel like there are so many changes that I need to make in my life before I can be happy with who I am.&nbsp; I love doing hair, but I just feel like I am supposed to do more with myself.&nbsp; I enjoy writing.&nbsp; I enjoy reading.&nbsp; Everyone always teases me at home because I am always with my nose in a book.&nbsp; I have stacks and stacks of books in tubs in the garage and I have read every one of them, some of them more than once, some of them even more than twice.</p> <p>I love romance novels, especially if they are in a medieval or pioneer setting.&nbsp; When I had my hot tub, I would sit out back in the hot tub for hours reading.&nbsp; Now, without it, I sit in my bathtub reading.&nbsp; Ask anyone in my house...Mom's favorite pasttime is reading.&nbsp; Television bores me.&nbsp; There are way too many reality shows in my opinion.&nbsp; I feel that they show people at their worst.&nbsp; There is really nothing that catches my interest as far as they are concerned. I do like documentaries like on the History Channel or on Discovery.&nbsp; I do like shows like Law and Order...all of them, CSI...all of them and certain movies they show on Lifetime.&nbsp;</p> <p>I am looking forward to taking History classes at BC.&nbsp; History fascinates me.&nbsp; European History, because my mother's family is from Europe, American History, because events of the past shaped this country into what it is today.&nbsp;</p> <p>When I was in high school, I could care less about all of that.&nbsp; The only classes that interested me was science.&nbsp; I remember failing every class except Orchestra and Life Science.&nbsp; I got A's in both of them.&nbsp; Go figure.&nbsp; I have a bit of ADD (not ADHD) and it seemed as if I only excelled in the classes that kept me interested.&nbsp; I was always in my own little world and it drove my teachers crazy.&nbsp;&nbsp; One teacher wrote that I liked to daydream.&nbsp; It was more or less tuning out because there was nothing that held my interest.&nbsp; But Life Science was a breeze for me.&nbsp; Learning about amoebas and chromosomes and fungi and spores...it all fascinated me and out of the many classes I&nbsp;took, this was one of the few that was able to grab my attention.</p> <p>So now that I am older and have learned how to control the side of me that is easily bored, I am finding a whole new world out there called education, and it is pretty darn exciting.</p>