MY NAME IS JABARI CUMMINGS. I am ten years old. One of my favorite hobbies is art. I like art because it gives me a way to express my feelings. Some of my artworks are about my friends and some of it is about my family. One of my other favorite hobbies is basketball. I play basketball whenever I get the chance to. I am very good at it. My friend Michael calls me "Mutumbo". When I first started drawing, I drew a picture of myself playing basketball. Some girls in my class think I'm cute. I don't have a girlfriend--yet. When I grow up I want to be an NBA All-Star. I want to play for the Minnesota T-Wolves. Our AQA art classes are held at ST. BENEDICT THE MOOR ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH in my hometown, Jamaica, Queens. Ms. Maxine lets us work on our own after she teaches us how to use that week's materials. That's really cool, because I don't have that much freedom in school to think of things and to do them on my own. The big project that our art class will work on will be a wall mural in a Jamaica community garden.