***English reading***

I did know two things, though, even early

on, and those were how much I loved drawing and building. There is a photo of me at eight years old on Christmas morning, a huge grin stretched across my face as I held up the present I’d been begging for all year: a new set of pirate LEGOS—complete with a monkey and a shark!

In middle school, my best friend Marie and I passed each other notebooks filled with elaborate doodles between classes. In high school, we discovered the magic of HTML, which let us combine our hobbies of drawing and building into the perfect pastime: making websites showcasing our illustrations.