three questions - feature writing

Rebekah Olden
Journalsim major
20-year-old
Yakima, WA

1. Will you describe the most interesting experience that you have been through?
Honduras (10th greade) and the Domican Republic (after senior year of high school) - youth group. Build onto a school in Domican Republic. Ran activities for the local children.
Spent two weeks at each place.

2. Will you describe the types of things are you involved with that make you unique?
Member of a show chior, The Melody Lane Singers, for 11.5 years. The program is ran through the community, her parents heard about if from a family friend when she was 5. Perform songs/scenes from well known theater shows. Traveling - all through out the United States. Including Hawaii, California, Florida and New York. Sang for governor Gary Locke. Perfromed at Disney Land and Disney World.


3. What about you makes you who you are?
Really creative and imaginative. Always making up stories - really thrilled with theater because it allows me to become a character.

The experiences from traveling have made me a more outgoing person.



A creative and imaginative personality has led Rebekah Olden through experiences that make her the outgoing person she is today.

At age 5, Rebekah olden, a 20-year-old journalism major at WSU, was put into a neighborhood show choir. Her passion for music and creative personality allowed her to put herself into the characters she plays.

The success she had with her show choir, The Melody Lane Singers, lasted for eleven and a half years.