Monday, June 3, 2013
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.
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