My backyard is the Snake River Canyon of Southern Idaho. I have waterfalls, trail rides, hiking, base jumping off of the great I.B. Perrine Bridge, and of course the canyon; yes, the very one Evel Knievel tried to jump over. I’m studying Early Childhood Education, I have been for the past 2 years. I plan to become an Early Childhood Educator and then someday have my own childcare center in southern Idaho. I am the first American and second person in my family to attend college, and I intend to be the first to graduate from college. Ever since I could remember I wanted run, everywhere and everywhere; running is what brought me here. I chose Lewis-Clark State College (LCSC) because I was offered an enormous Track & Field scholarship that I was
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I got the opportunity to write a children's book, a short novel, and many short stories. I also got the chance to be involved in their annual Halloween show: The Tragic Tales of the Tragic Valley, where I wrote monologues and short, tragic tales. My biggest struggle by far though is always writing the body of my stories; I always seem to know how to begin and how to end, but never how to connect both. Yet somehow each year of Creative Writing I seemed to get through it, even though my book fell short of my expectations and neither of my novels are finished or ready to be read by peers.
Reading is how I escape from my world, how I can leave stress behind and see the world in new ways. Books have a way of helping me feel safe; and “Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.” Markus Zusak. Sarah Dessen, John Green, Gayle Forman, Alex Flinn, Maggie Stiefvater, and Cate Tiernan are some of my favorite authors. Textbooks, on the other hand, have a way of helping me nod-off and find excuses to do everything but read
I got the opportunity to write a children's book, a short novel, and many short stories. I also got the chance to be involved in their annual Halloween show: The Tragic Tales of the Tragic Valley, where I wrote monologues and short, tragic tales. My biggest struggle by far though is always writing the body of my stories; I always seem to know how to begin and how to end, but never how to connect both. Yet somehow each year of Creative Writing I seemed to get through it, even though my book fell short of my expectations and neither of my novels are finished or ready to be read by peers.
Reading is how I escape from my world, how I can leave stress behind and see the world in new ways. Books have a way of helping me feel safe; and “Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.” Markus Zusak. Sarah Dessen, John Green, Gayle Forman, Alex Flinn, Maggie Stiefvater, and Cate Tiernan are some of my favorite authors. Textbooks, on the other hand, have a way of helping me nod-off and find excuses to do everything but read