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Aki
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Sidney
Gabby
Hailey
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John
Something that a lot of people don’t know about me is that I’m not actually that happy go lucky type of person, I’m actually a person that smiles and gives off a lot of positive energy even if im not okay or I’m struggling in general. I do this because I want to be seen as this leader who is fearless, smart, and optimistic but in reality I’m actually struggling because I don’t have anybody to talk to my problems about, my parents have so much to worry about like taxes, bills, food supplies, etc, and the majority of my friends take me as a joke because I make a lot of jokes and and that makes them think that I’m never really serious. I like being seen as a joke because it gives positive vibes to other people but I’d really like to have at least 1 person to be by my side most of the time when I’m struggling with something or problems in general because sometimes the negativity gets to the point where I just don’t want to try and do anything about it, it makes me want to give up on everything and everybody, I really hate that feeling because I like being positive and thinking optimistically but their are just times where I can’t contain all the negative emotions that I’ve bottled up inside me and just releases it by singing, dancing, breaking down in tears when nobody is around and even having to cry myself to sleep at night sometimes. But no matter how many times I get hurt or how many times I get stressed out I keep moving forward because I always strive to learn from my mistakes and my problems. I learned that problems either make or break you as a person, it will change you in either a good or bad way, so I decided to not let my problems break me but I learned and acknowledge it so it can help me to deal with the same problem again if it happens in the future. Without problems we wouldn’t be the person that we are right now.
Krizelle
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Mikaela
In my values worksheet, I wrote that being friendly would make the world a better place, even if it doesn’t make that much of a difference. Friendliness would count as love, and this project would mean that I get to show people the many ways of giving it. Giving someone a compliment or giving your heart out to someone close, be it a friend or partner, would be love and friendliness. Love and being friendly have one thing in common, and it is giving your heart out and appreciating someone or something. It doesn’t have to be a person who you give your heart to, it can be a pet you have that you pay attention to and care for. Love and friendliness can be found anywhere if you try hard enough. Love can be like giving half of yourself to someone for a half of them, getting to know them. In my personal opinion, love doesn’t just end with a partner, family, or friends. With friendliness and in love, even the small things can make a big difference. Calling someone talented or smart in a way that isn’t teasing can be counted as giving a little of your heart to that person. Even though it isn’t easy giving love or being friendly, the person receiving that tiny bit of attention you gave them would be happy if they were willing to accept it. In the end, love is to be friendly, as to be friendly is to give out love. You can spread love and friendliness anywhere, it doesn’t have to be romantic love. Ofcourse, you can spread platonic love to anyone willing to accept it. Romantic love, however, is a type of love that you save up for a special type of person. Your way of giving love or being friendly can range to anything. You can give small glances that come with a little smile, or smile at someone while they talk, that would be a way of giving love. Small acts of kindness and being friendly can also range through different actions. After all, love and friendliness comes with giving attention and a piece of your love to anyone and everything, making a small(but big) difference in the hearts of many.
Ernest
I would like to talk to people about how I started graffiti and why it is important to me. There are other people that do graffiti. Some of their graffiti drawing sucks, and some of them don’t. I think that my graffiti is pretty trash and ugly. But, that is not the point right now. I will be talking about how I started graffiti and why it is important to me. The age I started doing graffiti at was when I was 7 years old, during the second grade. Kinda crazy because graffiti isn’t supposed to be meant for kids. Graffiti is an art form however, it includes vandalism and drugs and other stuff. I started graffiti because I thought it would be the easiest art form out of all art and I was also bored. I just wanted to try doing art. My drawings started off pretty trash. And my tags were also trash. When I started graffiti, I also had a tag. I wrote “ernie”. Like Bert and Ernie from sesame street but there was no bert. I think I was the only young kid at school doing graffiti. I tagged the desk, got caught, stayed in the classroom during recess which as bad. Right now, I am 14, turning 15 in April, and I am still here doing graffiti. I improved with my graffiti too, doing a lot of crazy letters. Graffiti to me, it seems like a sickness, a very bad sickness that won’t make you stop doing it. It’s just very addicting to me and I won’t stop doing it. And graffiti is very important to me because it is such a very nice and unique art form and I’m so glad I do it. I have a couple family members that do graffiti and they are pretty good at doing it too. They also kinda inspired me to do it. I would like people who want to learn and do graffiti know about the history of it first before they do it. Vandalism is part of the graffiti life, and people could vandalize places wherever and whenever they want to. I suggest if they do start to tag all over the place, don’t tag any cars, houses, or churches because it is very stupid to do that and will affect people. Also, with graffiti, start learning how to tag first until you’re good with it, then move on to some challenging letters. Before going into crazy letter pieces, do bubble letters first and just practice until you’re good at doing it and crazy letters take a lot of time to do. As some people say, “practice makes perfect” and I believe that. And that’s how I started graffiti and why it is important to me. The end.
Nina
Kyle
Something that I never tell anyone is that when i get stressed out I either draw or game to calm myself down.
That’s why when I always pass random drawings to my teacher’s it kinda means that I am stressed out or I just did it for fun. That was how I deal with my stress but I get anxiety too sometimes and I basically do the same things, but I stay up late because i cannot sleep that easy when I get anxiety. I deal with my fear by ignoring it in a way that I just forget about it. Time to talk about my family history, My great grandfather was originally from japan but he met my great grandmother ( A filipina) they went to the same collage together, that’s when they started dating each other. They got married and decided to go to philippines because that’s where my great grandfather wanted to spend his time with my great grandmother. Eventually they had my grandfather, his other 2 brothers, and a sister ( I think). I don’t really talk to his sibling’s that much anymore except for one of his brother. My grandfather moved in with us in the city when my dad married my mom.
But no only when I was 10, before that I used to visit them (once a month) in the village that they used to live in. It would take about 4-5 hours if you use a car, They had a huge farm full of barn animals. They had pigs, sheeps, goats, ducks, chicken’s, cows, and they had 5 horses. One of the horse were mine, his name was maximus, he had a really long silver hair, his skin was like a clouds color ( pure white ). When I was 6-7 I finally got to ride maximus, and it felt so good, he was so fast ( also I rode him on the open field in the barn so I had a lot space to play with the animals. Then when I was 10 I came to hawaii, meeting my mom’s siblings for the first time and new friends in my new school.
Javen
What you dont know about me is that i portray an image that gets me into trouble sometimes, i get all of my kindness from my mom and the helpful people around me. I had to train myself to know who was a snake and who actually was on your side. When i was younger and I used to visit my mom, i would always have a transportation. Bikes, skateboard, rollerblading, scootering. I never took notice that skateboarding was such a eye catching thing to do. It looked very interesting to do with all the aesthetic and all of the hype of it. The nostalgic feeling of it just brings out another side of emotion of me. I am still learning how to skate, i am still a beginner but what drove me is my first flick of a trick called a “kickflip” it drove me to do more because it enhanced my mind to start filming people who can actually skate. Filming to me was such a recalling thing to do, i always remember being behind the lens of something, camera or film i always loved to take pictures of places i visit or film memories of something i love. This project means alot to me because skateboarding is such a misunderstood sport. People look at it as some ghetto kids in a spot but the kids look at is as a place where you can let your emotions out. This allows me to know more about myself by atleast know my strengths and weaknesses, what i can do what i cannot do.
Prianne
Chandelle
