Emily Willis from Emmy's Question

Emily Willis is one of our D.A.P.L Award Recipients for January 2009...read her blog post here!

Hey, I’m Emily Willis and I live in St. Augustine, Florida! My birthday is December 7 (Pearl Harbor Day!) and I just turned thirteen. I’m a 7th grader in the Arts Program at Murray Middle School where I take dance, advanced vocal, and drama. I LOVE the arts! I’ve taken dance and voice since I was five. Oh, yes, I take four academic classes also and am an A/B student although I did make a C this past term.

I want to become a marine biologist and/or fashion designer. I live on the beach so I get to see a lot of marine life, and my grandfather is a retired environmental consultant so I get a lot of knowledge from him. We even have real powerful microscopes to look at cool stuff with! When I’m done with school work I doodle fashion designs in my notebook. I designed a costume for one of our plays in drama class.

I’ve had a book written about me based on my diary and it tells about what it means to be the child of an alcoholic--and that you can be happy and have a good life in spite of it. The title is Emmy’s Question.

I have two cats and a dog. My dog, Mimi, is crazy. I like to read, especially the Lightning Thief series by Ric Riordan. It’s fun to play the Mario Bros racing game on my Wii, and when I have the time, I like taking photographs of my family, friends, pets, etc. I love all different kinds of music and art. And that’s enough about me!

Emily Willis

Letter from the Editor-January 5, 2009

Hello V.I.T.s,

Happy New Year to each and everyone of you! We are so excited 2008 is over!!! We have so much planned for you in 2009, we can't wait to share them with you. We just added two new Column Writers---Mariposa, and Aurelie. We look forward to their Columns on Teen Dating and Online Sites.

On a sad note, we would like to invite each and everyone of you to write a note to the Travolta family on their loss of their son, Jett. Please leave them a message on our post, we will be sending your messages to them at the end of the month. We are so very sad and we wish them the best.

We mentioned we have some great things planned for you for 2009, we will list them here and we will elaborate on them in later posts, as they become closer. Here we go...are you ready...drum roll please...launch of iNecklace, launch of iHairClippies, launch of iPopLocket, Golf Tournament for tweens and teens benefiting a charity, First ever Tween/Teen Blogger Conference, Giveaways, The Deko and Posh Recycle Club, Art and Craft Days with childrens hospitals with Deko and Posh, Blogging Carnival, and ...more! We told you, we have a lot planned.

Lastly, we have begun our D.A.P.L (Driven and Passionate Leaders) recognition. We started off highlighting one tween or teen each month who is doing amazing things, but there are so many we will now be highlighting several per month. At the end of the year we will choose one tween and one teen to be the D.A.P.L of the year! We will be posting the recipients at the beginning of each month. Check out this months, they are amazing! We hope they inspire you.

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