[Catalyst]: 723.Auto-Biography

Well, where to begin. I suppose the beginning would do. My name is Deborah(but I really prefer Debby). I am seventeen years old and am currently in High School. I am studying Music(Piano, Guitar and various other subjects required). Fortunately, for me anyway, I am a huge bookworm. It all started naturally, when a friend of mine wanted to get rid of me back in the early years of primary school. She directed me to the library. Shortly after that I became a menace to the librarian. Not because I was a pest(that was only partial) but because I would read practically everything that was available to me. Even now, the librarian of my school does not know what to do with me when I run out of books. I think it is fortunate that we get new books every year or there would be a problem. I am so often there, I think it is the only reason I started working there as a monitor and am today, the head of the media.

English is my home language. I grew up with an active imagination and still look forward to “narrative” essays where I get to enter new worlds. To me, every book is a new world, with new colours, people, even the voices. When I read I can practically hear everything a character is saying. Of course this puts me at a slight disadvantage when my mother has yelled at me for the third time to do something and I don’t do a thing she says, let alone actually hear her.

I only recently started writing poetry. Mostly, unless I have a topic I cannot write. Literal blank. I love noticing things and trying to put what I see into words. Naturally, my English teacher drilled poetic devices like similes and metaphors into me when we worked on Poetry for class. These tend to stay with me as I try to describe what I visualise. I also tend to lean towards a slightly natural element. I have not tried and I don’t think I will write a poem about something with really deep meaning so far. My poems have meanings I know about and that is just about right for me.