Who am I? - Jenna

  

I am a very family oriented person. My family are the people who stop everything to lend a helping hand. The Kaufman family background is Italian in German. My close family is made up of my mother, father, and older sister. Having an older sister made it difficult to leave for college so soon after we exited the snitching phase. Both of my parents are hard-working role models that want the best for my sister and I. 

Softball is an important role in my everyday life. The game practically raised me, I fell in love with the yellow ball at the young age of five. It has taught me lessons that people can not learn from be hide a desk. For example how to turn frustrations into something useful within the sport. The sport has introduced me to a huge variety of people and lifetime friends. 

Growing up I always heard about people around me with allergies. I never understood how you can wake up one day and your whole life change until it happened to me. One day my whole family and I were celebrating Christmas. We all had a piece of chocolate cake drizzled with hazelnut. It was not until ten minutes after I had my first bit that I went into anaphylactic shock. Not long after the cake incident I was diagnosed with a tree nut allergy at the age of seven. The news proceeded to change my diet for the years to come.