The document describes several events from the author's life: 1) Getting a pet chinchilla after begging their parents and the chinchilla turning her exercise wheel around at night; 2) Taking a karate class as a child but quitting as a white belt and only remembering doing kicks at the beach; 3) Having anger issues as a young child and being kicked out of two kindergartens.

1. My friend had bought a hermit crab for herself at Pet Smart. When she
was playing with it, I realized that it was keeping her company and I thought to
myself, “Hmm, I would something to keep me company”. I then went to Pet smart
with my dad and saw a baby Chinchilla, I fell in love with it instantly. I begged my
dad to let me get her and he said no. It took three days and a lot of convincing but
he finally let me get one.

2. I was born on December 26, 1998. I recently turned 14. My birthday
this year was actually quite boring, all I did was sit around the house and do
nothing. 3 years ago I had a birthday that was probably the best, I had all my
friends over and there was a caricature that was drawing everyone. Back then I
use to be over obsessed with Harry Potter, so that was the theme of my party. I
wished that night had never ended
Me and
my best
friend at
my 10th
birthday
party

3. As I talked about a couple of slides ago, I have a pet chinchilla
that I begged my parents for. She is a sneak. Two nights ago I put her
wheel in her cage but turned it around so that she wouldn’t make noise
and wake me up. She did exactly that, she woke me up. She somehow
managed to turn the wheel around and it was around 2:30 A.M. and I
heard the wheel and I was thinking to myself, “How did she do that?” I
got up out of bed and took the wheel and went back to sleep. She’s just
such a sweetheart who loves to play all the time and hide underneath my
bed.

4. I started dance about two years ago at Miss Tanya's School of Dance. The
main reason why I took a class was because I wanted to lose weight (I was
overweight) I started to lose weight and at the same time I was putting a lot of effort
in. My dance teacher was out close to recital because she was pregnant and was
having her baby. Another teacher came in and finished out dance right on time.
Recital time came and I was extremely nervous, but when I got out there I was fine.
It went great, there was so much applauding and cheering. At the end of the next
class she had me and some other people in my class stay after and invited us to be
on a team. I was super excited, I accepted and today I’m on a team and our first
competition of the season is in March. My team is like my family and I wouldn’t
trade them for anything.
Miss Tanya’s School of
Dance Hip Hop Teams
at Monsters of Hip Hop
at the DCU Center
Me and my friends
on our way to ---------------^
Monsters of Hip Hop

5. I’m always filled with energy from dusk till dawn. I truly don’t
know where it comes from but I love how it’s always there. Whenever
I’m with my friends they love how energetic I am, I even think it
sometimes rubs off on them. It comes in handy for dance, I give my all
while others are tired and putting little effort in.

6. I don’t do it as often as I use to but on most Fridays I’ll go to the mall with
my friends. The reason why I don’t like to go is all the drama, either someone’s crying
or someone’s fighting. I always remind myself why I even go. When I don’t go to the
mall I go to my grandmothers house. I find actually more fun than the mall. We go
out to eat and laugh about things that go on during the week. After that we go home
and watch a movie or two until we get tired. I went to the mall last weekend and I
knew that there would be so much drama so I ended up leaving at the time that I got
there. I texted my friend in the morning asking how it went and she told me that she
didn’t want to talk about it. I knew it.

7. When I was born, the doctors told my dad that I was going to be about six
feet 3 inches. Over the years I’ve grown a lot and today I’m six feet 1 inch. I’ve
always been the tallest kid of my grade. I think I’ve finally stopped. My height makes
me stick out like a sore thumb and sometimes during class when the teacher is
showing us something, people say “I can’t see.” Also, people ask me at least twenty
times a day, “Why are you so tall?”

8. I’m the one person that you will never see mad. Sometimes people yell at
me in attempt to make me upset, it never works. The only times I get upset is when
I ask for something and my family says no, other than that, I’m a happy go lucky guy.
When people are in a bad mood they sometimes come to me because they know
that I’ll be there to help them and have my happiness rub off on them. I would say
that I have a lot of friends but the reason for that is I never yell at them or say mean
things to them.

9. Internet is my life. There are so many things that I don’t know and that’s why
I use the internet. I use to use my laptop but now that I have my phone, its easy to
find out things on the go. Just last week I was out to dinner with my friends Savannah
and Sam and I thought about something that I was curious about and I went to reach
phone when I suddenly remembered that it was dead. I had to wait for the rest of
dinner and a half an hour after I got home (charging time) to search for the thing that I
wanted to find out what I wanted to know. My dad took away my things for an entire
month once and I ended up going crazy, I couldn’t take not being able to use Facebook
and Twitter and Youtube.

10. I’m the type of person that jokes a lot. My best friend is probably the
only person that can stand me. I just think to myself all the time that it’s better
to be a happy joking type of person than mean and grouchy. I remember the
time that I was at a party for my friend and they video taped me and put it on
facebook. I have to admit that it was pretty funny because I joked about
things and made people laugh more than I ever had. When I eat over my
friends house, our dinner is usually very interesting, I make everyone burst
out laughing and brighten up their days so much that they forget the bad
parts of their day. Caught
Gianna by
surprise on
the bus.
We
Me and my
laughed
best friend
about the
Savannah
picture
on the bus
afterwards
joking
around

11. When I use to live in my old apartment many years ago I lived in the
ghetto area. Practically right next to our apartment was a karate studio. I took a
class there but I hardly remember it. Just bits and pieces. I never stuck with
things when I was younger so I ended up quitting when I was still a white belt. I
never even tried to learn anything he was teaching, I just did my own thing.
This is me at the beach
doing the only thing I
know from karate.
Keeping in mind that I
took karate when I was
about six and I never
paid attention

12. I have an odd obsession with lemonade. Over the summer, my friend
and I did a lemonade stand every other day. Whenever I go to get a drink at my
house it has to be lemonade. I won’t drink anything else really. I just thought
that that was something interesting about me. The kind of lemonade I drink is
Crystal Light. It’s the type of lemonade that has different flavors like the original
flavor, pomegranate, strawberry, and a combination of the flavors.

13. When I was younger, maybe like a year ago, I was obsessed with the
Harry Potter series. Sadly, I use to collect many of the wands and “artifacts” from
the movies. I had so many products that I’m still in the process of getting rid of
things. I’ve now moved onto the Twilight series. I’ve seen all of the movies many
times but the newest one is Breaking Dawn Part 2. That’s become my favorite
and that probably won’t change for a while.

14. I’ve learned that I am an overly nice person. I give in when people ask
me for things like money and gum. When I’m fighting with someone it’s almost
impossible for me to be mean to them, it takes a lot for me to lash out on them
but it does happen occasionally. When I first meet people I’m usually not shy so
I’ll just go up to people and introduce myself, I make good first impressions. I’m
trying to learn to say no to people when it comes to taking advantage of me.

15. Style is what I’m best at, I have a perfect outfit for almost everyday. I
have exactly fifty shirts, twelve pairs of jeans, nine pairs of sweatpants, eighteen
sweatshirts, twenty four pairs of underwear, four deodorants, and six colognes.
The days that I don’t feel like dressing up I wear bummy clothes, but even it
makes a really good looking outfit. I have a little bit of an obsession with clothes
and I’m trying to tone it down a bit.

16. Ever since I was little I have always hated most meats, I don’t have any
idea why but the only kind of meat that I’ll eat is chicken, but it has to have batter
on it. When my family cooks super they make steak and pork-chops. It makes me
gag. I usually make my own things because I will absolutely not eat the meat that
they make. If I eat over my friends house and they’re eating meat like pork or
steak, I’ll tell them that I won’t eat it. I don’t care how rude I am.

17. My favorite quote of all time is “When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.”
The reason because of this is because my favorite drink is lemonade but also
because it means something to me. It inspires me to be creative and to try new
things.

18. I love my best friend more than anything and that’s why I’m going to
embarrass her here. She has rats that climb in her wall and whenever we hear
them we break down laughing. We’ll just be sitting in her room and all of a
sudden there’ll be a scratching noise in the walls. They have rat traps around
the house and one time when I was over her house I saw one in a trap and her
mom wouldn’t even go near it.

19. When I was younger I used to have a really bad temper and anger issues. I
went to three kindergartens. I went to Bennett School, Priest Street, and
Northwest Child Development Center. I was kicked out of two out of three of
them because of my anger issues. I had no idea how I was acting and if I could
back and change it all I would. My family and where I lived was the cause of
this.

20. I was probably the most difficult person to teach to ride a bike. It took
me exactly four months and seven days to learn how to ride a bike. I
tried and tried and I finally mastered it. Now a days I don’t ride my bike
anymore. I’ve kind of grown out of that stage.

21. There is a song that recently came out and I am absolutely in love with it. I love
music and this is pretty much the only song that I listen to. It is sung by Nicki
Minaj and it has something that just sticks out to me and I just can’t get enough
of it.

22. For Christmas, my parents bought me a pair of Uggs that I wanted so badly. I
wear them a lot like when I go out to the store or out with my friends. They’re
extremely comfortable, but I don’t wear them if I don’t want to be the center of
attention because when I wear them everyone stares. I’m pretty sure I’m the
only guy in the area that wears them.

23. When I was younger I was overweight. I was disgusted with my body and I
wanted to do something about it. I started losing weight in seventh grade. I lost a
total of 30 pounds and I’m proud of myself because now I’m happy with myself.
I’m not scared to take my shirt off at the beach anymore or take my shirt off in
plain general.

24. When I was in third grade, I didn’t want to go to school so I fought with my dad
in the car and then he finally won so I got out of the car and I slammed it but
my thumb got caught in the door and he brought me to the emergency room
and they x-rayed my thumb to see if it was broken or not
The results of
slamming my
thumb in a car
door

25. Last year I put up a YouTube channel and I had videos of me singing. They
weren’t very successful so I took them off and put on a video of me doing the
splits. It got about two hundred views but I wish that I could’ve gotten more.
This is the
video of me
doing the
splits on
youtube.

26. I was over my best friends house one day and we were bored, her dog has a
shock collar for when she goes out so that she can’t run away. I took the shock
collar and went to the corner of the room. It started beeping, I had my hand on
top of it and it zapped me. It really hurt and I was actually questioning whether
or not it electrocuted me.