I believe that I and my mom’s relationship will never be the same after what happened with her and this guy. The reason it will never be the same is because my mom met this guy and she said they were just friends but they really weren’t. They were more than friends my mom cheated on my dad with this guy. My dad was really mad but he had to be calm because of me, my brother and my sister. He knew we didn’t want to see them fight. When my mom told me what had happened we were driving to this guy’s  house but as soon as I heard pregnant I got so mad that I hated her and I felt like I could never talk to her or forgive her ever again. I got mad and didn’t talk to her for three weeks. I only talked to my dad I was so mad. When my mom took me back to the house I had to have someone to talk to so I called my friend. I walked to his house.  I told him what happened and all he could say was I couldn’t blame my mom for this but I didn’t believe him. I knew he was just trying to get me to forgive her but I couldn’t what she did was so bad it hurt seeing my dad like that. My dad is okay now and so am I but I still hate that my dad and mom aren’t together but I’m getting better. I and my mom are talking a little more but not as much as we used to. I and my mom used to be best buds but we really aren’t now. We’re getting closer. Me and my dad talk a lot more now to but I hate going to his house then my moms and back and forth and back and forth. That guy pretty much lives with us now and my dad can never come see us because he’s always there and I miss seeing my dad seven days a week instead of three days of a weekend. I’m learning to forgive my mom because that’s the only mom I have and I don’t want to lose her. I love her and everyone makes mistakes and she made one. No sin is bigger than the other. I’m a thirteen year old boy and this is my story.

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I believe that taking your own advice is the best advice you can take. This is because you know yourself better than anyone else, and your advice will help you. One day I went to school. It was supposed to be any normal day but, the unexpected was happened. I found out that most of my friends had hurt themselves over something bad that happened. Things like cutting, bulimia, suicidal thoughts, abuse, and alcohol. I got so mad at all of them. I sat down with some of them during lunch, lectured them, and gave them advice. In the end I started to hear myself talk. I thought about the time I did something to myself that was similar to the things my friends were doing to themselves. I told my best friend about it and she got so mad at me, but all she told me was “Candy you always give out the best advice people can get, but when it comes to yourself, you have had no advice to give. Why don’t you start taking your own advice?”  I took her advice and starting listening to myself. I realized that the advice I gave my friends was the advice I gave to myself. I stopped to think…..and all I could say after that was “you guys are just going to have to trust yourself and take your own advice, because it’s the best advice you got that’s good for you.” In school I tend to run into a lot of drama with my friends! Yet all I can do is stand there and give them some advice, as they do the same for me. I know my advice will change something in their lives, but yet I notice that what I tell my friends always means, “You’re just going to have to trust yourself, and your advices will lead you through this.” Now the only advice I have to say is if you’re feeling down, sad, depressed, of even confused you’re just going to have to think about what’s good for you and how you can achieve that greatness, and take it!

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I believe that I can go to school and graduate, and not let anybody get in my way. I believe that when I graduate from college I can open up my own restaurant. By opening my own business I would have to get my degree in business and food stuff. I love food and I love to work and see people everyday so that’s why I would love this job. Nobody could stop me because this is my own dream.   I enjoy creating cool type of weird food. My friends tell me that I have a good sense of smelling. There was this one time when Nara my friend made crabrangoon and she put cucumbers in it and I knew what it was right away because crabrangoon doesn’t have cucumbers in it. My older sister Julie is a very good cook and I’m usually testing her food all the time to see if it’s good or not. My sister and I get it from our dad. My dad use to own a restaurant before when I was even born. I went to the restaurant everyday. The customers adored me because I spent time with them almost every afternoon after preschool. I wasn’t old enough to learn how to cook I was only 5-6 at that time. Now these couples of years I’ve learn how to make a lot more of exotic food from both my sister and my dad at home. My dad had own a shop at that time also and he couldn’t take care of both so he had close the restaurant down. At this very young age I started working for him about four years ago. This is the reason why I believe I can open my own restaurant. It’s very fun but hard working and it’s a challenge everyday. It’s very hard I think you would at least have to know 3 languages Chinese English and Spanish. If you don’t know any of those especially English then it’s very hard for you to talk with your customers. Which in the mean time I would have to learn all these things before I open own my restaurant in the future? People believe that I can’t even make to college. But I believe if I work hard enough and not let those people get to me I can do anything I want to do. Those people that look down on me now one day they might just come to my restaurant everyday.  This is why I believe I can do what I want to do because in the future I will be the successful one. I am going to graduate out of high school. I will definitely get my bachelor degree in college and I will also open that amazing restaurant of mines when I get older. My parents will be very proud of this little girl that’s growing up.

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I believe that schools should start later like at 8:30.It will help the kids get ready for learning. Some buses come at 6:57 and some kids sometimes need to do their homework at night. In the morning kids need to groom themselves before heading to school or they will look like a mess. These are three reasons why I believe that schools should start later. In the morning some buses come at 6:30 and the person is not ready to go because they are still too tired to get up and yawn and stretch out. It happens to me almost every morning. Kids should get their full rest before heading out to school. It’s annoying when a teacher tells you to wake up or that I will give you a detention. And threatened by that comment I will try hardest to wake up. They limp their way to class.       Second the child won’t have time to get ready because last night they were up last night and doing homework. Kids need their full rest. Teachers are always saying go to bed early but they don’t know that kid personally. The Childs schedule sometimes when they get home they are suppose to go to their sport meetings or practices and then at like 5:30 PM they get home and still don’t time to do their homework because dinner, bath, chores, and or if they have to babysit. All of that and it goes until 9:00. Then there’s the meanest thing teachers give. HOMEWORK! There’s probably going to be like 5 or 6 homework assignments and if you’re in high school the work there is a lot harder. Then finally at 11:00. In the morning they wake up and it’s about 7:45.They are late for school. And so they rush to brush their teeth, change, eat, and pack your stuff. And they’ve missed the bus at 7:00. I believe that schools should open their doors late.  Kids need a lot of time to get ready like pick which clothes to wear, what to eat, and where my backpack is. Some classes in other schools don’t even accept late kids and expect them to stay after. Kids need their full rest, groom themselves and take their time to get ready.  This is why I believe schools should start late.

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I believe in heading in the right direction. Kids and teens in the U.S. are being pressured into gangs and drugs and a lot of bad stuff, but not all the kids in gangs are bad most of them have very bad home lives. And the gang is like the only real family they have. I have a friend in California and he is in a gang. One day I walked into his house and he was smoking pot. I asked him why he smokes pot and he said “it’s to calm me down” and I said “it’s not good for you” and he said “I don’t care” and he told me to leave. This same kid is 16 and has a kid. And the girl took the kid back to Puerto Rico so now one of the girls in the gang wants him to be her baby daddy. I believe that this is not good and kids should not be like this. I believe that going in the right direction is the most important thing for kids to do as they grow up. 

Going in the right direction is very important. If a kid is involved in extracurricular activities then I am involved in football, baseball, and drama stage crew and these things make me busy. If a kid is busy then they won’t be able to be involved in gangs and drugs and that sort of thing. If kids are into these sports it will be easier to get into a good collage and then get a well paying job.  To get involved in sports there are many ways. One way to get involved is to go to your local school unit and find out when the sport starts. You can get involved with school sports as well. Drama you can get involved by talking to your drama teacher at school. And if school does not work out right there are community type things you can do. 

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