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Drawing
I love to draw, paint, and color because art frees my mind of everything, good and bad. I love to draw cartoons mostly, but also I can recreate photos I have taken. I have recreated in my art my little sister at her eight birthday party, my cousin and the singer Anastasia, and on of Tim James at Woodfields Y-vibe fashion show and concert few years ago. Plain and simple art just grabs all my attention and concentration and lets me focus on something other that homework.
Singing & Dancing
I combined both of these hobbies because when I sing, I dance, and when I dance, I sing. They are both partners in what I love to do. My favorite song to sing is…hmm…I do not know. I can’t choose. I love to sing a lot of songs, and I love all kinds of dance, new and old. Later in life, as a side job, I wouldn’t mind being a choreographer or dance instructor for major Broadway productions. I think I would be good at that. I let my imagination take over in my dances.
Reading
If you asked me a year and a half-ago if I liked to read I would have named fifty other things to “waste” my time on. Now that I am in high school, I love it! The books I have chosen to read and have to read for school has changed my attitude about reading. Reading lets you see things you never thought of before and go places you never thought you could go. Take for instance, Canine Capers written by an alumna of Notre Dame (look it up and check it out.) Canine Capers transported me to a bad part of Dalton City in the backyard of a yellow house, and then in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe I was taken to Narnia with so many adventures lying before me. While I read that world around me disappears.
The Giving Tree
By: Shel Silverstein
This is the best children’s book I have ever read! Although
this book was written for younger readers, I will like it till the end
of my days. This story is about a boy and a tree that have an unusual relationship.
They watch each other grow older. As the boy gets older, he goes to visit
the tree less and less, and then only when he wants something from it.
By the end of the novel, the boy has turned into an old man, and the only
thing left of the full, living tree is a stump. It’s a great book for both
young and old.
The Diary of Anne Frank
By: Anne Frank
This is the best novel I have ever read. It is really Anne Frank’s diary, and it starts on or around her thirteenth birthday and ends a few years later. Her family and some friends had fled to Holland. Nazis started to invade Holland so the Franks and their friends went into hiding. Sometimes I felt it hard to believe Anne, her family, Mrs. Van Dann, and the Dussel family all lived in a small cramped annex. The annex was located above Otto Frank’s office, and his employees snuck in the supplies. She was around my age when the Nazi troops found her and everyone else that was hiding with her. I can’t even imagine what it would have been like to live like that!
A Clockwork Orange
By: Anthony Burgess
I highly recommend this novel. It is very good, but disturbing at the same time. It begins in a really bad, imaginary neighborhood. Alex is telling the story. He is a happy fifteen-year-old boy that has fun raping, stealing, and vandalizing. He is a very troubled teenager. He eventually finds himself thrown in jail and has to serve fourteen years in prison. While he is in prison, scientists perform experiments. Once he gets out of jail, all the people he had wronged are coming after him and....I do not want to give away the ending, so I’ll stop here.
When asked what my favorite type of entertainment is, I was torn. It took me a while to decide. I think the choice was between watching TV and listening to music. After a few moments of comparing the two, I chose listening to music because it frees my mind of the stress from daily life problems. I listen to many different genres. My favorite bands are Creed, Incubus, and Five for Fighting. Cress is very spiritually oriented and the lead singer, Scott Stapp, has such a distinctive and great voice. Incubus has really great songs, and it sure doesn't hurt that Brandon Boyd is a hottie. Five for Fighting has great songs that I just love to listen to on the radio. I never skip any of their songs when I listen to them on my CD player. All three bands have great CDs that you can almost always find in my CD player. They also have great songs that often get “stuck” in my head. I listen to music to relax. Of course once I am done; I put away my headphones, put the CD back in its case and get back into the sometimes hectic and overwhelming demands of life.
Personal
Color: Blue, Silver, Orange & Lime Green
Book: The Giving Tree
Magazine: YM
Television Shows: The Simpsons, Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
Diagnosis Murder & Friends
Radio Station: 103.5-Kiss FM & 94.7-The Zone
Song: Hero (The Spiderman Movie Theme)
Band/Group/Singer: Incubus, Creed, Trik Turnner
What I miss most about Grammar School: My friends
Grammar School Teacher: Mr. Dean
High School Teacher: I don't know yet but I have two in mind!
Place to be: At home with my family or at my cousins house
Article of clothing: sandals
Holiday: Christmas & Easter
Season: Summer
School Subject: History, Art, and Science