Tuesday, December 30, 2008

MY NEW WHEELCHAIR

After months of waiting, I finally get my new wheelchair. It's the same as my old one but it is a sparkly blue and has that new wheelchair smell. This one rolls much easier so hopefully I can race faster with it at the Kona marathon 5k race in June.
Here are some pictures of them building it and making the custom back for it.


Here they are pouring a chemical in the back which get really hot while it turned to foam around my back.

Here it is from the other direction.

What my wheelchair looked like before the back was made
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They are getting ready to cut the foam after it set up.

Getting ready to mix the chemicals to make the back. My dad's weight machine finally getting some use, even if it is as a table.
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And the finished product.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

BLOGGING BREAK

As you can tell im not on my blog. I moved to facebook and myspace. See you there.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

MISSING PIECES





Forrest Gump's mom says that "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you will get." But I say life is like a jigsaw puzzle and you never know what pieces will fit with each other. Or what piece may be missing all together.

A couple of month's ago I put together this turtle puzzle. It was the hardest puzzle to put together because the border pieces were so hard to find. It took me weeks to build. Pieces would fit together that didn't belong together so I would have to break them apart and find the right pieces.

Puzzles are fun to work on, but they can be frustrating too, especially when you spend days looking for a certain piece and then finally decide it must be missing and you have to move on to a different part of the puzzle.

And that's how it went with this puzzle. I spent days looking for one piece only to find out when I was finished that it was missing.

After a couple of month's though, when my dad was moving furniture around in the living room, we found the missing puzzle piece. Just like life, sometimes you go through life for months or years feeling like something is missing to one day, out of the blue, find that missing piece and your life seems complete.

PHOTOS:
The slow progress of putting this puzzle together.

Me with the finished puzzle minus the missing piece (seen in the next photo).
The puzzle mounted on my bedroom wall with the missing piece in place.

p.s. my dad helped me write this.

Friday, October 24, 2008

I AM - DEAF




THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE DEAF:
Lonely at times
I AM - ONE IN A MILLION
Feelings of being left out of conversations
I AM - DIFFERENT
I'm able to talk with my mouth full and not be rude, - I use my hands to talk, lol
I AM - UNIQUE
Deaf people have their own language - ASL
I AM - JUST ME
I can read lips
I AM - A FRIEND
It can be frustrating not knowing what sounds sound like
I AM - JUST A GIRL
I can "hear" your expressions
I AM - WHO GOD MADE ME
I don't hear sounds, I feel sounds
I AM - SPECIAL
It's upsetting when the closed captioning doesn't work on the TV
I AM - TALENTED
I can watch TV and read at the same time (the closed captioning)
I AM - BEAUTIFUL
Not being able to understand movies at the theater
I AM - A DAUGHTER
Not all deaf people know each other
I AM - AN ATHLETE
I still sing along to music I can feel
I AM - A WRITER
Vibrations are "noisy" to me
- motorcycles
-earthquakes
-bass drums
-ambulances
-big trucks
these things are very "noisy" to me.
I AM- A SISTER
Some people don't understand me when I talk
I AM - REBECCA

Monday, October 6, 2008

V IS FOR VOLUNTEERING

Today my dad and I volunteered at Ironman to help put together goody bags for the athletes. Last Friday my mom and I helped put together all the Ironman number packets. It was pretty fun working with al the other volunteers. We made a game out of putting the packets together.

The volunteers are all really nice and I'm sure the athletes appreciate what all the volunteers do so Ironman can happen.


Photos:
Top: Look at all those luggage tags. This is one of the items the athletes will get in their goody bag.



Middle: Volunteers line up at one of the tables carrying goody bags to be filled.


Bottom: All those race packets are what my mom and I and other volunteers did Friday. 1824 of them.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL THE PEOPLE RACING SATURDAY.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

MARINE SISTER

Mess with me and you'll have to deal with my brother ...



Today I saw my brother, Daniel, at MCRD and our friend Isaac. It was family day at the Marine training depot in San Diego. It was very crowded with other families of all the new Marines who are graduating tomorrow.

It got very hot today while we walked around the depot. It was nice to see Daniel after three months. I bought a stuffed bear that has a U.S. Marine sweat shirt on. It's really cute.

Tomorrow after graduation Daniel gets to come home with us. But first we are going to spend a few days here in San Diego. We are going to go to the zoo and probably back to Sea World. It's been fun being on vacation and to see Daniel again.


Yesterday I went to Sea World. I saw Shamu the whale. It jumped out of the water and did flips. It got a lot of people wet. I also got to pet bat rays. They are like manta rays but smaller. They are very soft. I also got to hold starfish and that was cool.

Sea World also has dolphins. Their dolphins are a lot bigger than the dolphins in Hawaii. people feed seals. The seals would bark and do things to get people to throw them fish.

In the top photo, Daniel and I stand outside the Marine museum. The other photo is of Isaac and Daniel. Isaac also lives in Hawaii.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

BROWN BEAR BASH AND SUNNY SPRINT

I was in a race today to celebrate Sunny who has brain cancer. I got to meet her. She was in a wheelchair also.

When we got in the ocean the water was cold. I don't like the ocean. A big wave got in my face and I swallowed water. It tasted bad. I don't want to swim in the ocean anymore. We had to swim to the third buoy and I swam on my mom's back. She got tired swimming with me.

After we swam I did a one mile run in my wheelchair. I got hot and tired but I had fun. Sunny went in her wheelchair for the race too.

In the top photo is me and Sunny is in the other wheelchair. Brown Bear is pushing Sunny.

In the middle photo I am going through the Kona Inn Shopping Center on my way out to the run turn around.

The last picture is at the one mile turn around.