Hi Latasha, good to see that you are jumping in right away. Since this is your 'proper' introductory post, I recommend that you use the 'introduceyourself' tag to give it more attention. To monitor your account, and see the value of your upcoming rewards, check out steemstats at https://steemstats.com/#!/.

I found these 2 posts by Hive account@liberosist to be very useful in understanding how voting works on Steemit: https://steemit.com/steem-help/@liberosist/mind-your-votes-an-investigation-and-guide-to-maximizing-your-curation-rewards and https://steemit.com/curation/@liberosist/mind-your-votes-ii-a-guide-to-maximizing-your-curation-rewards

Steemit is confusing to the new user, feel free to contact me and I'll try to help if I can.