Blog Entry No. 2.
When I was at Art Adventures, a program which is designed especially for kids with autism to have fun and make art, I painted two water color abstracts. One looked like a beast, very bright and radiant, and one looked like a cave creature, very dark and mysterious. These were the first abstracts I had ever done, but they caught the eye of the Director of Art Adventures, D Brinks. She really like them, and mentioned my name to a woman named Ms. Jabra, who talked to me and told me of her intentions to submit my work into a national art competition for kids with and without disabilities called "Kids Can Create." I titled my pieces "Magnificent Beast" and "Dark Creator." We submitted these pieces to compete with 4,700 pieces across the nation. Once submitted, VSA (Very Special Arts) would pick only 202 out of 4,700 to tour the national for two years in various children's museums. Then, out of these 202, they picked 10 children to come to Washington, D.C. for the grand opening at Union Station. Out of the 4,700 pieces of art, I was one of the 202 pieces chosen and I was one of the special ten children chosen to travel to Washington, D.C. When I found out, I went berserk I was so excited! I went to Washington, D.C. with my dad, and we walked the Mall. We went to all the museums, we rode the Metro everywhere, and it was so amazing! It was unlike anywhere I had ever seen or been before. It was a huge melting pot of culture, and everyone was in suits and ties, and there were Taxis everywhere. My favorite part, however, was not riding the Metro, or eating the food, or even the museums. It was seeing the art made by the nine other Artists and meeting them. (Although dinner at Old Ebbitt's Grill was pretty amazing and I had raw oysters!)
My favorite Artist was a girl named Elina. She has Cerebral Palsy, and is in a wheel chair. Despite this disability, she is an accomplished artist and musician, and an amazing sweet girl. She had a beautiful Golden Labradoodle named Zoey. Elina is the kindest, sweetest person I know, and I developed a love for her. She taught more about optimism in three days than I learned in a whole lifetime. I always thought it was so sweet that whenever she saw me, she would bounce up and down in her chair. If she had not have had bumpers on the chair, she would have tipped it over every time she saw me. She loved me and I loved her. Meeting Elina alone was worth the trip to Washington, D.C.
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