Friday, January 30, 2009

REWRITE: Week 2 History of me

I sit at my desk working on an english assignment then all of a sudden an announcement comes onto the intercom. Its my Principle, "please stop what you are doing and have your teacher turn it on channel 6 news "My teacher gets up and turns the tv on. What I see I will never forget. The Twin towers have been attacked! At my young age I thought ~what is the concern to this?~ As my teacher begins to explain the importance my heart falls and my stomic turns upside down. How could this happen with all the security in all the airports. I remember it taking so long to just reach the plan. Then the building falls, and the screaming is like nails on a chalkboard. I then begin to wonder, wasnt my aunt coming home for vacation to see everyone? then I begin to tear up. The thought that my aunt could of died and been one of those planes is something so devastating. The rest of the day was silent, I could hear a pin drop....I then go home get off the bus, run inside and see my mom at the table crying. i ask her what has happened? what has caused her to be so upset...Then it hits me...My aunt was one of the passengers of the plane...I sit there and cry with my mom. She has lost her sister and i lost my aunt due to a terrorist attack. It took me a long time to recover and still that day will be unforgettable to me, as well to others, but especially to me....9/11 the day the world stood still...
Then came high school. They say that high school are the best years of your life, but I beg to differ, my freshman year was terrible. Didnt make a lot of friends, wasnt much of a people person, and was always getting into trouble. One of the days I will never forget (11/23/05) that is the day I went to jail. I had gone because one of my friends had gotten hurt from someone and I cared for her like she was my own sister. I took matters into my own hands and it wasnt the brightest choice of mine. I was sentenced to 5 years, but I got out on good behavior after a year. I am still on paroll till this day. Jail is a life changing experience, i dont suggest it, but if it wasnt for me going at the time I did, i wouldnt be who i am now.
Its the end of my senior year in high school and I applied to many schools, the wait for the responses were unbearable at times. Then I hear my name called to the office. I receive a stack of letters, they are all from the school I had applied. I open them one by one, and each were denial letters, by the time I got to the 5th denial letter I thought I would never be going to college, I thought I would be stuck with a dead weight job for the rest of my life. Then comes the envelope from Eastern Maine Community College, which was my last hope for a successful career. I open it, and jump for joy, I have been accepted to EMCC for Computer Aided Drafting and Design! That was the happiest day of my life!
Global Warming, do many people follow that? I believe it, there has been a lot on tv with global warming, and that we are doing it to ourselves. A lot of talk about water melting, air thining as well as the ozone. I begin to think, what if the exstinktion of mankind is our fault? Do I want my kids to live in a world that is almost unbearable? It is time to change things. Al Gore is on the tv, discussing ways to change global warming from getting worse. But there are many that mauk him and think it isnt true. But those are people who make money over the things that are ruining us, Gas, Oil, Mills etc.. I hope that things change for this, and I will keep up with the information
I sit in my dorm room and turn on the tv. It is the presendent making a speech, It is time that we take our troops out of iraq, we have shown what we can do, and what will happen if violence still accures with us. At this point I begain to think this monkey is full of shit! He has been using the same speech over and over again sense the war started and nothing has changed. As the time goes by, still nothing. Later on I see on tv in bing bold letters THE CONTERY IS IN RESSETION! Im very puzzled, what does this mean? I begin to watch furthur. The i got the jist of it, basically we are back to the depression, or atleast heding in that derection! What happens with jobs? Money? insurence? i cant live without those things! People begin to start getting laid off from work and big companies begain to go bankrup! What is going on with the world today! At this point prices are dropping. Instead of paying $4.00 a gallon its only $1.70 and I can finnally fill up my tank! It amazes me, I always said that I would go streaking in Acadia Park if gas goes below $2.00. Well looks like its time for me to get down to my skivies!!
1/20/09 at 12pm the Inogralation of Barack Husain Obama. This is truely a day in history! The first African American to become president. Now I didnt vote for either. I voted for the green party, Ralph Nader all the way! It is time that our country is runned by someone who isnt from here, and someone who isnt a family of the country, and what I mean by that is all the Kennedys, and bush's that ran the country. Time to change it up!

1 comment:

  1. I like all the added material except for the Al Gore part which reads like it wandered in from another paper and is minimally connected to JDH, though I suppose if you're going to go streaking, global warming might be a plus....

    In a perfect world, I'd have you sleep on this for a month and then try really meshing and merging this material so it all flowed nicely instead of being add-on and tacked-on grafs, but perfection is not my goal.

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