By Silas Bales
Have you ever wished that you could draw well? Or maybe that you had rhythm and could dance? Maybe you wished that you were a good journalist.
Having just one of these talents would be nice, but Alyssa Dalley-Schofield has all three.
Alyssa works on Westmoore High school’s yearbook and newspaper staff doing multiple jobs, such as writing stories, editing photos, getting quotes and designing pages.
“I love being on the staff because it gives me a chance to get out of my shell. I am a very introverted person and this gives me a chance to open up and get to know some people,” Alyssa said.
She also works on staff because she wants to leave a legacy at her school.
“I want to create something that can be remembered by graduating seniors and incoming freshmen,” Alyssa said.
Alyssa uses her work to try to spread a positive message to other people. Her Facebook page is often filled with her writing lifting people up and trying to help people with depression and anxiety.
“I know people who have thought about committing suicide, and I don’t want anyone to think that way. I want to use my writing to uplift them about their image and help them out.”
Not only can she write, but from age 6 she has been a dancer. She started in
ballet but she has also done some hip hop, jazz, lyrical and contemporary
dance. From a young age, she was told by her parents and her instructor that
she had a talent for rhythm so dancing just came naturally to her.
Her passion for dancing comes from her sense of rhythm and her mother, who was a dancer as well.
“I can pick up a beat out of any song really easily, and I can’t help but move when I hear a song. I also love all the stories that can be told through the slower dances,” Alyssa said.
Alyssa is also an avid artist. She loves to draw and paint, and takes art classes from her school. She practices by taking things off Pinterest and sketching them herself. She is inspired by her very artistic family, specifically her grandmother, who is also a painter.
With the skills and techniques she is learning right now, Alyssa hopes to one day be a photojournalist, studying at OU’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Her interest in journalism comes from her love of photography and photojournalism.
“It allows me to show people how I see things and my perspective of the world. I started in photojournalism and began to love the stories that I could tell through the photography,” Alyssa said.
