When I first arrived in August, I expected misery and pain. My older sister had always told me that seventh grade was the grade you get the most work and several hours of homework a night. But I soon realized, it wasn’t that bad. I had made lots of new friends that were in my […]

Amy Purdy found her passion for snowboarding when she was only 15. She began competing and decided this was what she was going to do for the rest of her life. Sadly in 1999, Amy had bacterial meningitis giving her only a two percent chance of surviving. She was lucky and survived with the cost […]