A young teenaged girl with cerebral palsy shares us her views about her Alaskan adventure on her computer. She is nonverbal, but she is learning to express herself through her words.
September.20.2006.Alaska.
Dear Journal~
Hi! This your friend, Jodie! Guess where I am! I am on big ship, and we go trip to Alaska! Mommy, daddy, all us kids, even granpa and granma came! We have a great vacation! :)
I never been Alaska. Alaska big and beautiful, many mountains, many animals. Jodie see bear, birds, deer, mooses, vry cool to see! :) I see Northern Lights in sky, that scare me cause I think it thunderstorm, but mommy say no thunderstorm, just northern lights, northern lights don't make any noise! (Thank goodness! :) )
I like Alaska, see many neat things I not see home in Tennessee. I like big ship, got to go camp for kids, meet Funship Freddy, who make us laugh, show games, teach us stuff. I dance in my wheelchair; I scream with joy! :) Jodie very happy on big ship! I hope to do it again soon!
We go back Tennessee next week, Jodie try not worry about that. Right now, I have too much fun! I wish I could do it again next week, I ready to go back Alaska! :)
At the heart of the eight compelling nonfiction stories and five-article appendix which make up Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah is this interesting question: What would your life mean if you were living someone else's dream of what it should be?
