When I was in easy school I didn't want a lot of toys. I wanted to MAKE things. I wanted bead looms and china wheels and sand art. I wanted to hammer outside in the garage with my dad and sew old cloth together for my Barbie dolls to make them new fashions. I wanted to mix rivet-polish to make new colors. Otherwise I was playing Street Fighter or Sonic the Hedgehog. 

By the end of elementary school into and through central school my passion was writing. I wrote a romance, poetry books and short stories about fireflies. I entered handwriting competitions, oratorical contests and was even published in Creative Kids magazine. I was interested in music too and played the flute in the jazz group by transposing trumpet music. I loved putting book reports together, I loved creating, doing, writing, innovating. I was taking photography through a pinhole, entering and charming science fairs, marketing myself for president, taking lego logo. My 6th grade teacher even suggested I get an origination I called The Big Peanut Butter and Jelly Squeeze patented. My favorite downtime was playing Oregon Grow faint, exploring the now antiquated Internet, creating communities in Simms and making movies on some program my parents bought for me.
Throughout basic and middle school I was involved in ANYTHING ANYONE would let me get my hands on. I was incredibly inspired. I was at 4-H camps, roller skating lessons, art lessons, tennis lessons, swim lessons, foxiness lessons, library camp, vacation bible school. I played the flute but also the piano. I danced tap, lyrical, toe, jazz and I took acting. I was embroiled with in environmental projects, in basketball, and in softball annnd I was taking French. I was ALWAYS on the go. I was always involved in something new. I loved it. 
In high Lyceum I kind of slowed down. Not really. I just became more athletically inclined. I was on varsity volleyball, softball, cross-motherland and cheerleading. I was playing competitive fast-pitch year...

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