letter of introduction

Dear Stephanie,
I’m Markie Christian I am a new student in your class. So therefore I want you to know me a little bit better, here we go. Well since you already know my name let me tell you about some of the things I like to do in my spare time.
First of all, one of the things that I love to do is dance, I have been dancing for about 16 years so I guess ever since I was 2 years old. I danced at Kim’s Academy of Dance for about nine years and then I decided I wanted to try out cheerleading for my grade school when I was in sixth grade which also included a lot of dance. I did cheerleading for about 3 years up until I had surgery which I’ll talk about a little later on. After I graduated from grade school I entered a whole new world, high school, some may think of high school as “oh it’s just another school big deal” well for me it was a big deal not only because it was all new to me but it helped me realize another one of my talents, acting.
Acting is another one of my talents, but of course for me being on stage is just another ordinary day. I love it because it’s the best feeling in the entire world. The first official play I was in (besides church plays) was The Bad Seed, I played the role of Rhoda Penmark a “perfect” little girl with a couple of anger issues shall we say. After being in The Bad Seed I decided I wanted to try community theatre so I asked my mom what she thought about it and she loved the idea. She loves coming to all of my performances I can honestly say she is my number one fan. My mom and I started looking for auditions in the newspaper, finally an audition caught my eye, High School Musical was the play so I set up a voice lesson and then I was off to my first audition at Cornstock Theatre. I went and did my best, and about three days after my audition, I was sitting at home watching T.V. with my mom and our phone rang and it was the director of High School Musical, I MADE IT! I was the happiest person in the entire world at that very moment; I think I made my mom go deaf for a couple of days because I screamed so loud. I have also been in Peter Pan and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat.
So those are a couple of my talents or as I like to call them hobbies, but back to that surgery I mentioned earlier. I have spina bifida which is a birth defect, it affects the spinal cord and most of the time the person can’t even walk, but I am truly blessed that I can. I have had about 30 surgeries from the time I was born up until now, I know sounds like a lot but it’s not all that bad it could be a lot worse. It’s no walk in the park, but I try and keep my head held high most of the time. I have always had people behind me to keep me going like my mom, my brother, my dad, and my step dad a.k.a. Daddy.
My family is the most important thing in my life, and I would do anything to help them out. I love them with everything in me, but only one thing can come before my family in my life and that would be God, my father in heaven, who has given me the ability to do the things I love to do. I’m a strong believer in the Lord; I guess you can call me a “hardcore Christian”. I don’t look at myself that way though, I look at myself as the kind of person that will help anyone no matter who you are, what religion you are, etc. to the best of my ability. Beside God and my family my friends come next, to me there is no greater thing than friendship. You have to have some friends to survive in my book because you can always go to them if you feel you can’t talk to your family about something. I know that’s how it is with me, if I can’t talk to my parents about something I’ll go to my best friend Alyssa or my other friend Ann because I know I can trust them with my life.
Now to talk about what I would like to accomplish while I am here at ICC. While I’m here I would like to be able to get a degree in nursing. The reason for that is I want to help other people with disabilities such as mine and of course other illnesses. Another thing I would like to accomplish is looking for all that ICC has to offer and possibly another career change.
So there you have it, there is a little about me. I hope that this letter has helped you understand me a little bit better I am looking forward to being in your class this year. I also hope to learn a little about you in the process.
Sincerely,
Markie Christian.