Alicia Keys – If I Ain’t Got You

Close is a good word to describe my family; well me, my mom and my brother. We talk a lot, more than other families do I think. When my friends come over they are shocked to hear some of the conversations that me and my brother have with our mom. I think it’s super important to be open with your parents. It makes things a lot easier when you can talk and act freely around them. Since me and Larry are so close to our mom it makes it a lot easier to go to her when we are upset or when we have made a mistake. On the other hand, my dad is a little bit harder to talk to and share things with. Me and Larry are really close, it’s probably because we are so close in age. Since we are close in age we are interested in some of the same things and we have a lot of friends in common. Some siblings can’t stand each other but me and Larry aren’t like that at all. He is my best friend and I could never imagine not having him around. Sometimes he seems more like a son to me than a brother. My mom said that when he came home from the hospital we had a whole bunch of company over and at first I thought he was leaving with the rest of the company but once I realized he was staying he became my baby. Mom always tells us story about us when we were younger, how he would call me Ah-dee and how whenever someone came to visit and said hello to me I would shoot back “well aren’t you gonna say hello to my brother?” I hope my kids love each other just as much and me and Larry do and  I hope to be a mother to my children just how my mom is a mother to me.

 

 

Education

 Education is a beautiful gift that every single person in America is given, when I graduate college I want to be able to give that gift to hundreds of young children. I admire all of my current and past teachers for all that they have taught me, and I can’t help but think how amazing it will feel to give back to my future student what my teachers have given me. I cannot think of a more important of powerful gift that I could give to the world than education. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela. After reading this quote from activist Nelson Mandela I am reassured that when I become a teacher I will be giving children that powerful weapon for them to change the world. Changing the world one lesson at a time, one classroom at a time, one student at a time.

Unforgettable Stranger

Dr. Randall Pinkett impacted my life when he spoke at a leadership I attended earlier this school year. Dr. Pinkett spoke about being a leader and how it’s important to make your own trails in life rather than following trails that others have made. He encouraged us to be trailblazers. How was he able to keep a whole room of teens attentive? He only spoke for an hour and I think that’s why we all were so interested and focused on what he was saying. After his speech it made me want to apply all that he was saying to my own life. How can I become a trailblazer? He reminded me of my track coach, Coach Melton. Whenever Coach Melton speaks to us he motivates me and makes me want to go great things for myself and for my school, I felt the same way after listening to Dr. Pinkett’s speech. I believe that some people just have like this power to encourage people and instill hope in other and both Dr. Pinkett and Coach Melton do that for me. When Randall Pinkett spoke at the conference he was the first guest speaker on the first night and I believe that he was the perfect person to start off the conference on the right foot. I always believe that a good speaker makes you really think. Think about what you are doing. Think about what you aren’t doing. Think about what you should be doing. Dr. Pinkett pushed our minds and made us think outside of the box. Dr. Pinkett made me think about what has been written in my notebook and what I want to be written in the future. My life is a notebook, some space already taken up, but so much left to be written.       

Boon Paragraph

As the year went on I found myself spending more and more time at Rider Elementary and as I fell more in love with my students it seemed that me & Jeff fell more out of love. There were many nights were I would come home to a not so happy Jeff. There was only one time that Jeff actually expressed how he felt about my job, it was the night I missed his birthday dinner. That day Tyler asked if he could stay after and do his homework with me so without any hesitation I told him I would stay. Tyler was finally interested in school so how could I have possibly said no to him. Tyler needed my help and this time I would be there. By the time we finished it was 5:30. Looking down at my phone I had twelve missed calls from Jeff and one text that read “I guess you forgot about our dinner reservations for my bday, I won’t be home tonight.” I completely forgot. I was so interested in helping Tyler that I had forgot my own husbands birthday dinner.  

Call Paragraph

It was definitely the worst day of my life. As the rain came down it fell on a crowd of people dressed in all black. Women stood still with their black hats and faces smeared with makeup. Men stood with no expression with their hands tucked away in their black suit pants. Looking up into the sky I could see no sign of sun. It was a dark day. The day we buried my brother was a very dark day.

Jenna's Poem (Mid Term)

They are as strong as a muscular ox that can pull a big brick building for miles.

Carlos' Poem (Mid Term)

Being with you is a lustful dream