Hi my name is Rachel Alongi. I am 19 years old and I have five sisters no brothers. I was diagnosed with rts when I was 10 years old. I never knew I had rts until I was 16 years old, then at that time my mom told me what I had. I remember reading everything she had about rts. I was curious and when I saw this rts list on her email all the time I started to ask questions. What is rts mean? She told me what it means so I now know that I am with everyone else trying to figure what this is.

I have three dogs two cats and one bird. The dogs names are Chewbucca she is a shihtzu, Sandy - he is a sheltie and terrier his name is Max.  I also have six nephews, what a joy, and one neice named Katherine which I enjoy so much.

I am the youngest in my family. I remember when I was young I had alot of ear infections and I also remember going to the doctors alot. I also remember my older sisters trying to feed me but I wouldn't eat at all. Now I eat what I like the best and the food textures still get to me. I like eating out alot with my friends and we all hang out with each other and talk and laugh with each other. I go on trips with them like Ellenburg, Collee City, alot of different places with my friends. How special friends really are to me, how we all share the laughter with each other. I hang out with my friends alot. We go to McDonalds, Burger King, Starbucks, mall...or just go to each others houses and hang out.

But what I want to be is a teacher for preschoolers because I think that be the job for me but also I want to work with difficulties kids because I know that be special for me because when I was young I had trouble like they had so I can understand how they're going though..

I graduated from high school on June 06,1998 10:00 am I was so proud of myself of keeping the hard work going for me and the tough things I got thru and made it I was so happy. My sisters were very happy for me also they hugged me so I was so glad to graduated from Kennewick highschool. When I was in highschool I was on the honor roll 3,325 3.0 GPA my name was in the newspaper because I made it to the honor roll. I was so happy. I used to walk to school every morning. It was three blocks away from my house so it was no big deal for me. I pay rent at my house also I pay for my food. I don't let others pay for me because I want to feel good about what I do in life.

Rachel@3-cities.com