City: Asheville

Brain Injury: Bleeding in my head when I was a baby.  I had a stroke.

Explanation of mask:  I like the color blue.  It is my favorite color.  It represents the sky—like outside!  I drew red cookies in the middle.  They are red to look like Christmas cookies that I lay out for Santa.  The orange is the color of the jack o lantern for Halloween.  I love going trick or treating, getting candy and dressing up.  My mask looks beautiful.  I love working at my job at Kmart and I love going bowling with Hinds’ Feet Farm to Sky Lanes.  I also love when we have open gym because I love to play basketball.  Basketball is my favorite sport.  Like Michael Jordan who is the best basketball player.  I am amazing!  I feel like my life is wonderful.  I like being Jalen!