"Okay class, here's the picture that you need to write a short story about." This was music to my ears. Growing up, I always loved writing and creating stories. I remember in 4th grade when we would be given a picture of something and then we would have to write any story we wanted about the picture. These were my favorite kind of assignments. I would always pass in stories that were at least ten pages long, mostly because my hand writing was big and obnoxious. I'm happy that laptops and Microsoft word exist now. I remember at the end of the year, my teacher passed out awards to everyone in the class. I ended up getting the "creative writing award". I was really proud of it and couldn't wait to show my family so that they could hang it up on the fridge. I'm not really sure where that award is now, but then again, I can't find anything 99 percent of the time.

5th grade came along and that was the year we started learning about poetry. I would always write limericks about my family and also recently found one that I wrote about a pug. I'm guessing it's because pug is really easy to rhyme with things. I also found a poem that I wrote about a toad that isn't really that bad!

I had no idea I had so much potential at the time. I sort of put my writing skills on the back burner until my senior year of high school. I decided to take creative writing for the entire year I also wrote for my school newspaper "The Gillnetter". I loved every second of both classes. I had an amazing teacher s and I wrote some of my best work. If it weren't for those classes, I would have never won a two thousand dollar scholarship for school.

A lot of people didn't really know how much I liked to write until I started writing for The Odyssey. I love when people tell me they read my articles or when they say that they enjoy reading them. That's exactly why I love what I do. If you had asked 4th grade me that my writing would get to this point, she'd probably laugh and ignore you and go back to eating or watching cartoons on "Nickelodeon" because that's what she did best. Hopefully one day I'll write a book or have my own column in a newspaper/ magazine. Or I'll be somewhere on the internet since literally everything is on the internet. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.