Abby Donegan's Intro

Hi! I'm Abby Donegan, a junior at Fredonia with a BFA Dance Major and soon to be a Childhood Inclusive Education Major with a concentration in English! I am from Corning NY, which is about three hours southeast of Fredonia. At home I live with my mom, dad, brother, two dogs, and cat. :) I took Women Writers because I need a English class for my concentration and because it sounds like an interesting class. I usually enjoy classes that are discussion based because I think there is a lot to learn from other people in the classroom along with the teacher. I love to dance and used to be interested in Dance/Movement Therapy, but decided to change into education when I realized psychology wasn't for me. My dream is to be a special education teacher and to open a dance studio that works with children with exceptionalities (disabilities).
The quote I chose from the reading is "What I fear the most, I think, is the death of the imagination" (Slyvia Plath). I think the imagination is a beautiful place and I also fear that many children and adults are losing their since of imagination. I tend to think of this fairly often because I babysit a lot back at home. So many children turn on a video game, a TV, an iPad, a computer game, etc. and I rarely see children playing "make believe" anymore. I remember parents saying "kids, get out of the kitchen, go outside and play something", and all of my cousins and I would run outside and make up a game about fairies, ballerinas, monsters, witches, whatever was in our imagination that day. While we grow older, we tend to lose that sense of our imagination. As a dancer, I try to express my imagination in different ways. Of course I am not going to be a twenty year old running around campus pretending that witches are chasing me, because people would probably think I am schizophrenic. When we are adults, we must find our imagination in a different sense and then express our thoughts creatively. I hope children never lose their sense of imagination because that is what makes every child so special, brilliant, and unique.