ALEX KOTAS

There are a few things I'm currently watching on TV: The Oympics! I watched both the men's and women's figure skating. It was pretty cool! Canada won first place in the women's followed by Russia, Team USA, Italy and one other. I'm going to try to watch Luge competition this week along with Ski Jumping. Should be intriguing. There are a few DVDs that I've been watching - Buffy the Vampire Slayer - it was on the WB from 1997 - 2003 but the WB was discontinued at some point. I

I was at the Chicago Auto Show at McCormick Place for the First Look for Charity, which is where people's tickets result in donations to charities. I was helping Special Olympics as an Ambassador. I did not give a speech this time, I mingled with the crowd and told them about Special Olympics. I met some other Special Olympics athletes, we got to see cool cars, like the Chicago Cubs car, which was probably the highlight of the car show. Here we see the celebrities from Windy

The Fourth of July is always a special time because the church behind my house celebrates their anniversary, and they shoot off lots of giant fireworks. It was a fun day! In addition to watching fireworks, my bestie Gayle showed up and we had good snacks. All I have to do is go into my backyard to watch the show. It was the church's 50th anniversary, so they put on an extra good show. The fireworks got off to a little bit of a late start due to a concert, but we just visit

The McCook Police Department in Chicago held the Second Annual Rooftop Fundraiser for Special Olympics on July 8. We visited with people in the area and talked about Special Olympics. We sold raffle tickets all the way up to the very top of the rooftop. We were way up high, like on the 6th floor! During the game, there was free dinner. We got it after we checked in. I had Italian sausage with ketchup and mustard, and chips. It was catered by Buona Beef. They had brownie bite

Special Olympics has many fundraisers, and they had one at Buffalo Wild Wings in Aurora in association with the Aurora Police Department! The parents did not take pictures, because they were too lazy to bring out their cameras. So use your imagination! My job was to be in charge of the sales table: you could buy tshirts, hats and raffle tickets among other items. When they sell things, some of that money goes back to Special Olympics. First we ate dinner because it was a s

Exactly one week ago, Sheila, Randy and I went to Geneva to help at this golfing site. I was chosen for this event because I am a Special Olympics Global Messenger. It was a fundraiser for Special Olympics. We helped the players and guided them at Hole 5. We rode golf carts to get there. It was my first time riding in a golf cart - I was scared to death! I had to really hang on. Sheila didn't think she was going to make it either! I got to meet some interesting people like

I went to Casey's in Naperville for an event called Make Music Chicago. It started in France, and the idea is to make music all day! We were outside to encourage audience participation. We were singing songs, and people could sing along. We sang stuff like "Let It Go", "Shake It Off". Heather played the keyboard, Pearl played the ukulele, Forrest played the guitar, and we had some small percussion instruments like shakere and djembe drum. It was sort of fun, sort of not fu

Last Saturday, me and my friends went to this painting place and painted our pets. We started by painting the eyes first, then the nose, etc. Stormy has curly fur, and he actually looks like the painting! After painting, Lisa Marie took us for pizza, it was on her. We went to Aurelio's in Geneva (IL not Switzerland LOL). Everyone had fun and their pictures turned out great! #Stormy #entertainment

It was a semi-unusual day yesterday in Warrenville. It was rainy while we were inside. We went up to the cashier like normal for B-Buddies bowling and they told us what lanes to go to. Went there, got our balls and shoes, and started to bowl. Unusually, unlike the past 2 games I came in last place and did not break 100 quite yet. Caitlin won the 2nd game, and I won the 3rd. I got 2 strikes in the final game, so that really helped my score of course. We were there a long time

Artful Impact, where I take theatre classes, participated in #strongerthrusong. We sang #letitgo with Kaylee Rogers. Kaylee is a 10-year-old girl from Northern Ireland with autism who has an amazing voice. Click here to listen! #strongerthrusong is a global event where people show how they are stronger thru song. We skyped with Kaylee to be able to meet her and hear about all her singing events. Later that month, we did a secondary performance of "Let It Go" at the Dupage Chi