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M.O.O.M.B.A" If you think you can you can. If you think you can't you're right."
-----Maya Angelou
They say life is a fortune cookie with your future inside of it waiting to emerge. I believe this is true, but five years ago, I would not have cared. Five years ago, I was thinking about the present time. I was not interested, thinking of, or even caring about anything that was going to happen in the future. My plans consisted of whom I was going to flirt with, or whom I was going to fight. My main problem was ignorance. I knew waht I had to do to become someone in life, but since that day seemed so far away, I ignored it. I thought I was too young to start trying. I thought that person could never be me.
Five years ago I was in the sixth grade. At that time I was determind to be the most popular person in school. A year after that, as I matured, things began to change. An event which occured in the summer of my seventh grade year changed my life. It also changed the way I thought about life. I recieved a phone call from a teacher whoose name is Mrs. Bell. She is the most patient, kind, and heart-warming person I have ever met. We had a short conversation about life at school, and then she told me the news. I was chose out of 180 students to be in the first class of AVID, at Sullivan Middle School. I was astounded and tremendously proud, but the first question I asked was, "Why me?" Without any hesitation Mrs. Bell replied, "Because you deserve it."
When school started,...
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