Chasing 18-year-old Jacob around the Lehigh Valley Grand Prix track is a lesson in staying the course.<\/p>\n
“What did it feel like the first time you ever driving something?” 69 News reporter Bo Koltnow asked the teen.<\/p>\n
“Felt cool, relaxing, very fun. I enjoyed it. I had to adapt. I’m good at adapting to different things,” he said.<\/p>\n
From a circuitous race course to a very different kind of winding path.<\/p>\n
“What do you want to do when you get out of college?” Koltnow asked him.<\/p>\n
“Become a vet or become a herpetologist, which is working with reptiles and amphibians,” he said.<\/p>\n
The recent high school grad and prom fashion king is one of more than 3,000 Pennsylvania foster kids looking for a permanent family.<\/p>\n
“He always likes finding the bright side of things and staying very hopeful in life,” said case worker Mary Ouattara.<\/p>\n
And very informed, at least if scales are involved.<\/p>\n
“The heaviest weighing snake is the green anaconda. The longest reticulated python could get to 16 to 17 feet long, weighing up to 400 to five to 800 pounds, and then the green anaconda can get up to like 12 feet long, weighing up to say like a good like 900 or 1000 pounds,” Jacob explained.<\/p>\n
“Well, maybe it’s best we’re going to race some cars today,” Koltnow said.<\/p>\n
“Yeah,” he smiled.<\/p>\n
For more on Jacob or any other of our Adopt Lehigh Valley Kids head to the The Salvation Army Foster Care & Adoption services<\/a> or the Adopt Lehigh Valley Kids<\/a> section on wfmz.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Do you want to maybe not be a scientist now and be a race car driver?” Koltnow asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Probably,” said Jacob.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chasing 18-year-old Jacob around the Lehigh Valley Grand Prix track is a lesson in staying the course. “What…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,95748,119,121,120],"class_list":["post-219709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-adopt-lehigh-valley-kids","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}