What Do I Have A Passsion For !!??

Ever since I was 5 I loved to sing. I would sing anything from R&B to Pop music. My main dream in my life is to become a singer, but sometimes it’s not easy getting people to notice you especially if you have a talent that most people have. I always sing, I sing in the shower, in my room, maybe even outside but i be really quiet. I don’t want anyone to hear me. My friends always get me to sing to them because they like my voice, they become very happy when I start singing and that makes me nervous. When i sing i feel like I express myself more, either when I’m happy or sad. I think that my voice comes out better and people feel my emotion when I sing how I feel. You may not understand what i mean or it may sound stupid but that’s how I express myself. Especially when I don’t express myself to loved ones i go home, pick a song that matches my emotion and sing! I want to practice a certain song for the talent show but the voice notes are really hard, but I’m going to work hard on it so I can make a good impression the day of the talent show, especially it being my last year in TMA. Even thinking about singing in front of a lot of people makes me really nervous. I believe in myself and i can accomplish anything I put my mind to.

Being A Teenager!!!!!!

People always tell you when you turn 13 everything will get harder as you get older, especially being a teenager. They were right. When I turned 13 I was in the 7^th grade.  Thinking I was grown because I was in middle school and I had the teen in my age, thirteen! That was a big deal to me. Unfortunately I was no were near grown. At 13 girl’s start to like boys and boys start to like girls. There started t be a lot of new people and situations that were coming my way being this big THIRTEEN! I started to notice the people started to change, the girls I hung out with in elementary school started to not speak to me or we lost contact with each other. I felt hurt at first because I missed my old friends. I didn’t like the fact of having only two friends in this big school, which included high school also.

My time in Thurgood Marshal Academy changed me as a person. I say this because I learned a lot from other people and I learned how to handle certain situations differently. One example is when I told my friend something about my other friend and she went back to her and told her what I said. I felt hurt because she was supposed to be my friend but instead she was a trouble maker and instigator. Even though what I said wasn’t bad I just felt like that wasn’t her place to go back and tell. I told both of them how I felt and we were friends again. That situation changed me, I realized that you can’t trust anyone and people like to see you fall when they see you doing better than them.

As time passed I realized that my “clique” or group of friends started to get smaller and school work was getting harder. Trying to balance out school and friends was hard, because I was trying to keep my friends happy while trying to pass all my classes. I also noticed that friend will always be there and you will see them in school every day, and school comes first. Being 13 was an age of BECOMING mature and not BEING mature. 13 was just a number and there is way more responsibility that came my way as years passes. When you graduate high school you on your own and life is up to what you make it, either bad or good. That’s your choice.