[Cabs] Introduction

[BEKAHBEA at aol.com]

Hello, 
 
I was planning on telling more about myself after I found that my email  
sent. 
 
Again, I'm Bekah, I'm in high school, and I'm home schooled. I joined this  
list hoping to get a little more involved in the NFB and CABS. I want to  
participate in more activities and grasp all learning experiences I can. I'm 
not  completely blind, but visually impaired. 
 
My favorite activities are mostly writing fiction and drawing the  
characters I write about (along with reading to learn ways to improve my  
writing--and to have fun!) 
 
None of my novels or short stories have been published, but I do volunteer  
at my church. One of the things I do is write a short story every month to  
present to the kindergarten and first graders. I also work with the first 
grade  class every Sunday and I love it! I enjoy working with children. 
 
Presenting my stories is a lot of fun, and it's a good first step to  
becoming a professional writer. You get the experience of targeting age groups  
and how to keep their attention. I also have an overall goal to glorify God 
in  all my writing, and writing for the children at the church gives me a 
chance to  experiment different ways to do that. I also like to see how the 
kids react when  they hear my stories. If they learn what they were supposed to 
from my story,  and they enjoy it, then I've done my job. 
 
For self defense and exercise, I take karate. The place I take lessons at  
has worked with blind people before (they're actually teaching a girl my age 
 who's blind, too). I like the way they teach, and the basics are very 
helpful in  dangerous situations. 
 
I'm taking art classes every Saturday to improve my artwork. Ever since I  
was little, I would write little stories and draw pictures to go with them 
and  staple them together to create a little book. My artwork has improved 
greatly  since then because I was always drawing, but you could compare a 
picture  from when I was a little girl to a picture I drew yesterday and notice  
similarities between them. 
 
I target people, mostly in scenes, which is one of the hardest things  to 
draw for some people, but for me, the easiest. I've been told I should  
become an author and illustrate my own books. That's something I'd love to do!  
When I get into collage, I plan on taking writing courses--especially 
creative  writing or something similar. 
 
Speaking of collage, I'm looking for resources for it. I'm only going into  
tenth grade, but it's good to know what I can do or get involved in. Any  
suggestions? 
 
Well, if I haven't talked your ears out, I think I'll be done now. That's  
about all I can think of. 
 
Rebekah 
 
 
In a message dated 7/14/2009 8:35:06 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
alicia716 at msn.com writes:

Hello,  Bekah.  My name is Alicia.  Since I have not been keeping up with  
CABS much lately, would you mind telling me a little about yourself?  
Thanks.

Alicia  


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