Getting to Know Emma Werner

Over the past week English has been about getting to know our classmates and trying to step outside our comfort zone. This week I am given the opportunity to sit down and talk to a classmate and learn that there is more to a person then one could imagine. I interviewed Emma. She is not only enrolled at Northampton Community College, but is also attending Nazareth High School. Emma and I asked each other questions in an effort to get to know each other and share with others what we learned. Emma’s education won’t stop at Northampton, she intends on attending the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) to purse a degree in nursing. However, outside of classes Emma is an extremely interesting person. She is the youngest of her family, having three older sisters. Two of her sisters still live locally and the other sister has moved to the sunshine state, Florida. Being that she is the youngest, she has three nieces and a nephew. Spending time with family is only part of Emma’s everyday life. Like myself, Emma enjoys playing sports and being outdoors. She played recreational softball for seven years but stopped for the past few years. She intends to start playing again this upcoming season. Aside from soft ball, she enjoys other outdoor activities such as hiking and hunting with her father. One of her favorite trips was a hunting trip to Maine with her father where she came across a moose which is now one of her favorite animals. She is an overall major animal lover. One of her greatest accomplishments happened when her sister’s husband was deployed and was unable to be present at his child’s birth. She then was the one who cut the umbilical cord to the baby. I asked Emma how she would like to be remembered and she stated simple, “a genuinely good person.”