My Sophmore Year

My sophomore year here at Atrisco Heritage Academy high school has been a wonderful experience and has changed my life forever! These last nine months hold many awesome times and crazy stories. I’ve changed a lot over this school year and continue to change. I used to be the guy out there looking for trouble and always walking around like I was all bad waiting for someone to look at me wrong so I had a reason to fight them. I used to be the guy that didn’t care about school or anything or anyone. I used to be the guy my family almost disowned because of who I was.

Then sophomore year came around and for some reason I’m not sure why I started to change. I had new friends I never really had friends like this before always looked out for me and made sure I was doing good. My new friends made me snap and helped me realize that I didn’t want that life anymore and made me think maybe I never wanted that life. I changed my life for me and for my family and for my nephews and nieces. I wanted to be someone they looked up too and I wanted them to be proud they had me as an uncle. I’m glad I changed before it was too late. I feel better as a person for some reason and its good knowing that I don’t have to watch my back anymore. There is no way I can repay all my friends for what they have done for me even know they don’t know the helped me ever one of them had a part in my transformation.

If Atrisco has taught my anything it’s not math or anything you can teach in a book it’s taught me that I can have a second chance that I can succeed in this world. Statistics show that South Valley students are not as progressive as the rest of the city’s students and its true but I think Atrisco is the South Valleys second chance to start over and not be known for the gangs and drugs and being the scary place of Albuquerque but to be known as the place where a second chance was given and the place where great minds are formed and people succeed. The South Valley will be known as the Second Chance because of Atrisco Heritage Academy High School. It will change the face of the South Valley forever I know this because it changed mine.

The only way I can get anywhere in this world is with my words my music (Rap) no one will ever listen to what I have to say (my music) unless I can be the best out there. Atrisco has taught me that if I want to be herd or get my point across then I must use my words. But anyone can speak right? ya that’s true but how good can you speak? And how you put your words together makes a big difference I learned that from my English teacher Mr. Ley.

Anybody can rap and make music but how you word your music and the message it sends to people is the difference. That’s why I think I have a chance of making because I don’t just rap whatever rhymes together and whatever fits. I put raps together that make sense and put everything I have into it. That’s the difference between me and every other rapper. And Atrisco has taught me that because no one listens to us student’s weather we are right or wrong. So in order to be herd you have to stand out from all the others and make your words do what you want to get the result you want by making the words you say impact the person(s) you’re talking too. I will use what I’ve learned at Atrisco in the music industry to be the best rapper out there. I know that there are hundreds of rappers in Albuquerque and where are they? Not on the radio that’s for sure. I think I can do what other rappers seem to be missing.  I’m hoping with the street smarts I have and the smarts I get from Atrisco I hope to be the rapper every IPod is bumping too.

My Anything Essay

The subject I choose to write about for the 500 word anything essay is about how I changed my life over the last year and the people who helped me get here.First off last year and before that I had the mentality and attitude of a thug. I may not have always shown that I was a gangster but better believe If someone looked at me wrong or said something I let them know exactly who I and what I was. The reason I think I became a thug is because my step dad. When I was only three years old my mother met my step dad and everything was perfect at first. As young as I was I thought my step dad was my real dad never knowing the truth that he wasn’t and that my real dad was some thug drug dealer and my mom left him because of what he was and didn’t know he was like that until she was pregnant with me. Anyway when I was about seven my mom and step dad finally got married and that when things changed. My step dad had this anger this anger I had not seen before or never realized before. When he would get mad he would punch the walls making holes in it and would yell and curse. My mother would always have to call the police and they would make sure he was calm before we went back home. When my step dad would get mad I can remember I would hide in my closet or under the pool table until it was over. I would put my mind somewhere else and pretend that I was doing other things. I was confused though because my step dad was a really fun person always made me laugh and was nice and caring but when he would get made all the good things about him seemed to escape only leaving this hate and anger behind. I loved my step dad he was awesome I just didn’t understand him when he was mad he was a different person. When I was about ten my mom had enough of his anger and divorced him. The divorce really hurt me alot but I got over it because I would go with my step dad every weekend and would have a blast. We went fishing, hunting and did alot of stuff it was awesome. Then after awhile he stopped coming to pick me up on the weekends always making excuses. Then finally he got me one weekend we were at his house just hanging out and he got mad all of a sudden I asked him what was wrong. He said he just got off the phone with my mom and I asked what had happened. He told me that the reason he hasn’t been around lately is because I looked too much like my mom and couldn’t stand to see me. In my head I was like that’s it because I look like my mom and since you hate her I have too suffer. I started crying and he started yelling at me telling me to be quiet. I kept crying. All of a sudden he is in my face yelling at me to stop crying and when I wouldn’t he struck me in my chest and then again in my arm. I stopped crying right away. He told me next time I tell you to do something you better do it. He left the room and went outside. I ran to my room in shock thinking to myself did that just really happen? Did he really just hit me? Who is this man and what did he do with my father? I let it go and when I went back with my mom I didn’t say a word. Months passed and not a phone call or nothing from my dad. Then one day I hear my mom arguing with someone on the phone. I ran to my brother’s room and picked up the other phone to listen on the call. It was my step dad and he was yelling at my mom. I heard my mom say, you need to spend time with him you can’t do this to him". And then I heard the words I still have not forgotten till this day my step dad said, “Why should I take care of something that’s not mine!” I put the phone down imieditly and ran to my mom and said I was listening to the call and asked her what he meant. She hung up the phone took a deep breath and told me that he was not my real dad. She said my real dad was a bad person a drug dealer. My heart dropped and I ran to my room and started crying all this bad stuff was happening to me and I did not know how to handle it. Then at school there were other kids that were going through the same stuff I was going threw kind and those kids understood me those kids were gangsters and thugs. I thought since our lives were somewhat similar that that’s what I was supposed to me like them. So I started being like them and it felt good being a thug not caring about anything so I could not get hurt again. I decided that if I never got close to any one or trust anyone again then I would never have that pain in my heart. Well I soon learned after becoming a thug it was not easy I did not know the responsibilities it had. I was getting in fights with other kids because of the kids I hung out with they told me I had to defend my so called family and our hood. At first it was cool i guess but then as I got older it only got worse and I had to make a decision before it got out of hand. My oldest brother Richard saw what I was becoming and snapped me out of it and told me that I would be nothing in this world if I was a gangster and that he and the rest of my family would neglect me. Thanks to my brother I now don’t want to be a thug not that I was a big time one any way but still i was one. I couldn’t do that to my mother after all she has been threw I couldn’t hurt her. So I’m thankful to my brother because I completely changed and my life is better than ever. I have awesome friends that helped me also even know they don’t know it they did alot. Dante my oldest nephew thanks bro I want to be a good role model for you and we have been through hell and back but you never left my side thanks homie. My homie "Buck" bro we have done alot of crazy shit together and you’re like a brother to me you know I got your back till the end homie and I just want to say thank because you really helped me. My family of course My mom, Jessica, Richard, Erica, Toni. The people at school that have helped me are Jasmine April Munoz thank you soo much you may not know but you have impacted my life alot this school year I’m so thankful for you and for your friendship can’t wait till we are in college together I hope I know you for the rest of my life because your such an awesome person and fun to be around and thanks for the dancing lessons ha ha.

500 word essay

 If I were to leave this world today and I could only tell my family and friends one inportant thing I have learned in my life somthing they could cherish and live by it would have to be "Dont live life to fast because it ends to quick". I personaly think that quote could not be said any better because its true if your always worrying about the future then you waste time not enjoying the present and soon enough your future is your past and all the time you spent thinking about your future has gone you and now time is less because you thought about your future instead of making your future. What im trying to say is live life to the fullest dont have any regrets dont be scared to try new things, Any day could be your last so why waste it? Dont be the person that in 50 years is saying "I should have". Be the person in 50 years saying "Im glad I did". Death can take you in a second without any warning so dont wait to be the person you want to be dont wait to change things do the stuff you've always wanted to do and live like every day is your last who knows it just might be. If I left this world right now I would go knowing that my life was like an action movie always taking risks and going the extra mile. I love my life knowing that everday I wake up there is somthing out there waiting for me to experience somthing out there calling my name to try because it knows I will try it. I will not sit here worring about the dangers of this world and "what if this" and "what if that" I will be out in the world enjoying this life I have. This one life I am given.This life I will never get back. I will be making my future my past and the present full of exciting and fun memories. So I leave you with this quote to take as a instruction manual of life dont stress the small things when there is bigger things going on. Im not saying be carless and wild and stupid. Im saying life is awsome so live it up with family and friends. 

My sister

My sister Jessica is so awsome i love her so much if it was not for her i would not be where i am today. She is like a second mom she makes sure im doing good in school and keeps me out of trouble.Im am glad my sister never gave up on me she knew i could succeed if i put my mind to it. I dont know if she knows how much she inpacts my life but i hope she knows because i look up to her as a rolemodel. She has been threw hell and back and didnt have the best life growing up but she kept goin and proved to me that if she could do then so can i. My sister encourages me to go to college and to be a better person. My sister is the only person i can talk to in this world she understands me and can relate to me and my life problems.She is always a phone call away when i need her and i can depend on her to be there for me when i need her the most. She also knows im always there for her and would do anything for her. I dont think i can ever repay my sis for all she has done because she helped me realize the inportance in life and what i need to do to become the person others will respect. I know i have done alot of wrong things in the past but i know my family will not hold them against me because were family and thats what family is for to forgive and be there for eachother. So jess THANKS FOR BEING THERE FOR ME!!! LOVE YOU SIS

"My Quote"

"dont live life to fast because it ends to quick"(Hernandez,Gabe").