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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I believe in setting goals and dreams and not letting things get in the way of what you are trying to accomplish. People will always say something to bring a person down.  I know this because I have been through so much in the past years of my life.  The best way to get over the bad years was to forget. Sometimes you have to lie, cheat, hide all to keep from seeing the truth. Think about a time when you wanted something so bad.  Would you do anything to get it? What would you do to get it? Did you have to give something up to make that dream come true. Well my dream is to become a singer, but my shyness gets a hold of me and takes over. I think I am the best because I have been singing for a long time. It all started when I was three, I started mouthing word to song. By the age of five I started hearing   my   voice on a microphone. Then I started listening to old school music. By listen to music I started writing songs. Sometimes I wonder why there are artist that can’t sing. Why can’t I take their spot.  All I know is I’m going to make my dream come real. I know this because I believe. I want to become a singer to be famous and I   want   the world to hear me. What makes me the best is the way I act in front of my family. If I could ask like that on stage then I ‘m all good.

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I believe that the way a person dresses doesn’t personify who they are. If you dress a certain way it doesn’t show who you are. You could be a really nice person that has manners and knows when the time is right to speak and when you sit, or even when to go to the bathroom, but you may dress like your tough and mean and like you don’t care about he way you look. But fact of the matter is the way you dress really doesn’t determine who you are, and what you stand for. People think clothes are a reason to stereotype someone that is different from them. When people do stereotype they don’t realize how bad it hurts until they get stereotyped themselves, and they just feel terrible. This doesn’t mean they’ll change. And it doesn’t make it right, not in the slightest bit possible. The way I dress is a completely different way than most people. And some people might think its offensive but really that’s their problem and they can just deal, I mean really is it that big of a deal? I also believe that hair colour doesn’t make you bad, or eye colour, that’s like what Hitler did during the holocaust. He tried to say if you had dark hair and dark eyes that you were a bad person. Some of the most beautiful people have dark hair and eyes, and they are some of the greatest people ever. If life was ever easy it would be more miserable than you make it. What I don’t understand is why do we as humans treat each other like we do? It makes you wonder why the world must be so cold. Would we be happy if we weren’t mean to each other? Would it make us better people? Would everyone get along? The answer to these questions might never be answered.  What would happen if everyone dressed exactly the same and acted the same? You can’t possibly tell me you would be happy that way. Personally I’ve been told multiple times that I dress like I’m in the circus, which I actually think is a compliment. Yes it sounds weird but whatever. I’ve also been told that I look like a freak. Sometimes these words hurt, more than anything. Life would be so much easier if everyone would keep their mouths shut and just worried about themselves instead of others. That’s like in a fire situation; take care of yourself before you help anyone else. There are just so many things I don’t understand about people. Therefore I believe that the way a person dresses doesn’t personify who they are as a person. Get to know a person before you judge them. Think of it this way for one bad thing you say to a person one bad thing can and probably will happen to you. Karma what comes around goes around. It’s the fact of life.

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I believe we should be able to kiss and hug in the hallways because it’s no fun when you have to wait till after school. It’s hard not doing these things because these things come natural when you see your girlfriend. 

First we should be able to kiss in the hallways because it’s hard not to and we’re going to do it anyway. People don’t like to listen because they think the rule is stupid and there’s no point to it. It’s a waste of all teachers’ and administrators’ time. 

Now we should be able to hug in the hallways because it’s harmless and it’s not going to hurt anybody to hug each other. It’s part of life. Everybody hugs everyday and people don’t try to stop that. We should be able to have a little freedom to hug. 

Last but not least they should let us kiss and hug it won’t hurt anybody. Kids may be happier in classes. They may not have a bad attitudes at teachers’ and other kids. They should just let us be because we are going to do what we do. What we do is kiss and hug in the hallways. Just let us have some freedom. 

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I believe that roller coaster is not good for me. When I went to Kings Island with my family it was my first rollercoaster. I had lots of fun. I was scared because it was so big. I ate some food and it was Burger King. I was full and it wasn’t a good thing. Now it is time to get on the rollercoaster.  

First, I got on the rollercoaster and they had to put on everybody seatbelt. After this they started the ride. On the rollercoaster I went up and came done fast. I was very nervous and scared. I told the people to stop the ride.  

Second, I ate so much I had thrown up on the ride. When I got off, the man ask me was it on purpose or on accident. I said it was an accident and he said ok keep going. I felt embarrassed. I was mad and left from that area. That made me feel better, and then I told my mom that I throw up on the ride.  

Third, my throw up landed on someone’s head. It landed on a grownup’s head. He screamed. Then he went to go get a towel. It made my day but made my fist rollercoaster bad.  

Last, this experience made me remember to not eat before getting on the rollercoaster.   I really don’t want to go on a rollercoaster again. I will get on a smaller rollercoaster if I don’t eat before getting on the rollercoaster.       

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I believe in basketball because it has sportsmanship and teamwork. Sportsmanship and teamwork are important because that’s how you win in life. Sportsmanship is like being a nice person to one of your teammates. If they miss a shot and they was wide open you’re not supposed to say ‘’you suck.’’ You’re supposed say, ‘’maybe next time but that was a good shot.’’ Teamwork is when you pass the ball around to your teammates instead of ball hogging. That’s how you don’t win sometimes.  The first thing I am going to talk about in basketball is sportsmanship. Sportsmanship is when you beat another team you don’t brag about it when you get home or to school. You’re supposed to go up to the team and say, ‘’good game’’ and ‘’you played a good game.’’ Another reason is if you lose you can still get mad at yourself, but don’t take it out on the other team. Especially if it the championship and you were undefeated and you just lost the biggest game of your life. The second thing I am going to talk about is teamwork. Now teamwork is working with the whole team not you. Because if you try to do everything by yourself you are going to probably lose. The team is going to be mad at you because you didn’t pass the ball to them not once and they always pass the ball to you; like when you say that you’re going to give the ball back to them but you never do. Then the next game the team never gives you the ball or they throw the ball away on purpose and then you lose the game. That’s why it is important to have teamwork and sportsmanship. If you combined all these together then that makes you a good player, but if you don’t use these two things it doesn’t make you a bad player it just makes you a stupid player. You don’t even say anything nice to the other team you beat you say bad things and that could hurt their feelings and that would not be nice to them. The reasons why I pick teamwork because that is important to the whole team even the coach and he/she isn’t even playing. If you are the best player it makes you a better player if you use these two things right here: sportsmanship and teamwork.

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