**~Jena~**

Hello!
I am a 22 year old crazy gal looking for all the fun that life can toss out!*Use scroll bars on the right ~>
I see myself as a very unique and genuinely happy person. I’m very trustworthy and hardworking. On top of all that, I’ve always been open to change and trying new things.
Just to get a better handle on who I am, below is a period-by-period biography about me.
Ok, so I graduated from high school (OOOooo La la!), moved onto college, got an associates degree (Cha-Ching!), and now I am aptly going broke and into debt with every semester I spend working for my Bachelor’s degree (*opens wallet in amazement of the colorful moths that flutter outward only to remind me that life ‘ain’t’ cheap!*) Ohhh wait… you wanted a more detailed explanation of my life thus far?! Ok, well I am apt student, always working hard, and actively involved in school activities. For three years, I performed on the Marching Band as a Color-Guard flag and rifle line girl for football games, parades, and amusement parks such as Cedar Point and Disney World. In June of 2004 I received my High school diploma (wow- that seems like ages ago) and immediately began schooling at my local community college in which I devoted extensive amounts of time into my education, right up until I skipped town to go work an internship for Mickey and his short skirt wearin’ gal, Minnie down in Sunny Orlando, FL. My motto: Education is the one thing that no one can take away, so get as far as you can and run like hell with that chalky piece of paper.
At Disney World I was given the responsibility of protecting the health and well-being of Disney guests on a daily basis as a deep water lifeguard at Disney's Blizzard Beach and on rain days I was given the chance to act a fool and juggle for the little children that loved to harass me. I made friends there from around the world that I will cherish and trust forever. While I was on this program I also was schooled and graduated from the Disney University and for the past few years, I’ve been a Disney Representative at Triton College, marketing this same opportunity to other students on campus.
As everyone knows, I’m a crazy fun loving gal who is up to anything new and interesting. So with that, one year, I was given the chance to venture back to the olden days dressed in my most expensive pirate garb and hence, I was introduced to the Bristol Renaissance Fair. I’ve become quite the Renaissance fair patron ever since and love to run wild with the fairies and share a broosky with the best pirates in town! I love the talent at the Ren-Fair so much that I even inquired about working there. Not long after asking around, I came into contact with a worker who changed my life. I was so interested in the arts and stunting of a group known as Barely Balanced , that my overzealous curiosity led me into my current high-flying career in which I enjoy today- the Circus!!!! Yes, I can see your face now… WHAT?! This girl is CRAZY!!! But while at the Ren. Fair I informed about a Circus program at the very same college I attended (and never knew about). With that, my life took a drastic but amazing change. That very same year, I became a yearly volunteer for the Triton Trouper Circus . I began learning how to do things that always inspired me, but had never even thought of trying. That April I performed center ring for my first time ever in a Circus. Now a yearly volunteer for the Triton Trouper Circus , I’ve performed acts on the Swinging Trapeze, Double Stunts, Man-Wheel/German Wheel, Tight Wire, Juggling, Equilibrism (aka-Statues), and Teeterboard. From then on out, every year that the Trouper's Circus comes back into season, I remain an active participate because it is where I began and where my heart first began to truly skip a beat!
While performing for the Triton Trouper Circus, I was recruited into another Circus Company known as Forms in Motion , to which I am still a part of today. In the summer of 2007 and 2008, I traveled the mid-west as a professionally paid Circus performer with Forms in Motion , doing acrobatics, poi juggling/fire spinning, adagio, and double stunts. In April 2008, our company produced an exciting new Pirate Circus Show in Upstate New York, known as, "Journey of the Arabella." I played the role of 'Constance,' where I continued my Circus stunting and also managed to maintain a certain composure after breath taking tricks to recite my lines in the show (not so easy…) Acting, memorizing lines, and performing acrobatics all in one show was quite a ‘breathtaking’ experience on my part, and although the show was a bit challenging for my first time ever in a play, I hope there are more to come! In July of 2008 I broke the first bone in my body when I did the "big" assisted back flip mid show, landed on a clump of mud, broke my foot and separated some bones. Even though the pain was instant I got back up on my feet, styled and smiled, and continued through the acrobatic stunting of that performance. After 4 weeks of quick healing (which should've been 6 weeks) in which I *shhhh* managed to climb the Michigan Sand Dunes, walking boot and all, I am surprisingly back on my feet and ready to get back into the routine of flipping and stickin.' I am networking extensively and learning amazing new things with this company. I have a strong feeling that I will go far with the knowledge I’m gaining with them.
I am now being schooled through Eastern Illinois University in the pursuit of the ground breaking BA in which I hope to finish up by the middle of 2009. Since this is an exciting and expensive step in my life, I am actively hunting for any and all scholarship/grant assistance that I am offered (anyone out there reading this getting the hint??? *wink wink… I DO have a 4.0 GPA and I’m very active student!!!!!*).
I look forward to a bright and successful future where I can raise hell, make a change, and make people laugh with all of these new creative skills in which I have acquired...
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