Who I Am

I'm from east Durham, I lived with my mom, dad, and grandparents up until i was about 4. Then we moved. We stayed in Durham but me, my mom, and my dad moved out. Soon after, my mom and dad got divorced. My mom stayed a single mom for a few months or so. Then my uncle introduced her to William, who is now her husband. A little before they got together, I started cheer leading. I cheered for about 8 years then soon went to gymnastics for a year while I was in cheer leading. When i quit cheer leading, i continued gymnastics for a while and then moved to tumbling and quit. I'm now in horseback riding leasing a pony named Anna and a horse named Levi. Horseback riding has come more of thing to me. There's new horses to ride and jumps to jump, while in cheer leading, there's always that one routine for competitions and it gets old, quick. So for now, I'm gonna continue riding for a while. I'm considering joining gymnastics again but just for fun. I also want to cheer for school but I don't like it as much as competitive cheering. Recently, I got into photography with a few of my mom's friends and now I'm taking photography class and hoping to have my own camera real soon. With my photography, I'm planning on doing action photography and/or photo shoots for people. My photography will mainly be of horses, nature, and sports for now or until I learn more interesting things to photograph. Later in my career, I'm planning on becoming a show jumper, vet, and i will probably try to be a photographer on the side. I want to be a show jumper because every time I watch the Grand Prix or Rolex it makes me want to work harder so I can become the rider I want to be when i grow up. One of my inspirations for show jumping is Reed Kessler, she's the best rider in my opinion. A few years ago I had actually never known that I would want to be a show jumper, I wanted to become an all star cheer leader who went to worlds and became famous, then i quit cheering. After that idea, I wanted to go to the Olympics for gymnastics but that faded away over time... I stopped doing any type of sports only for two months or so, during that time I wanted to start doing more singing. I made you tube videos, sang in the car and around the house. I stopped wanting to be famous because I saw all the drama caused between the singers these days. Now, all I'm focused on is graduating high school and college and being a show jumper and vet. Yes, I know a lot of people will bring me down and tell me I can't do it but I know I can. I highly dislike going to school, but I know to be a vet, I must have at least two years of college so I guess I'll have to deal with school and the early mornings.

Besides Reed Kessler, I think my mom has influenced me a lot with my careers. Whenever I want to quit something, she makes me try harder at it until I know for sure I want to quit. Growing up, my mom/family didn't have quite as much money as everyone else did to pay for all the sports, competitions, outfits, shopping, etc. that I wanted to do, but she definitely tried her best. My mom wants me to the best I can, but to the best, you have to start from something and I suppose something would be nothing. With the help of my mom, coaches, and teachers, I'm doing more shows every month (for my show jumping career), I'm helping more animals ( for wanting to be a vet), and I'm getting my own camera so I can be a photographer also. Now I'm getting closer, and closer to reaching my goals every day.