School Year

With the school year coming to a close, I get the same feeling that I got when I finished high school. Some what sad, some what excited, and some what scared. I'm sad because I made some great friends that I pretty much see and talk to everyday and when peoples lives move on and they aren't in the same place doing the same old routine things change. I'm sure I will still keep in touch with the close ones through all the technology these days such as facebook and cell phones. I'm somewhat excited because schools out which means summer vacation for most of us. Time to hang out with friends, and do summer activities such as camping, swimming and water activities. Also I feel scared because seeing I chose to do the one year program over the two I'm graduating this year and I don't know what the future holds for me. A lot of people don't know what their future holds but its just different when it's yours. We had the business showcase tonight where employers from towns close in radius come to look at your portfolio and see if your a potential employee. It went really well for me. At first I was really nervous and didn't want to be there, but once I started talking I found it very easy to talk with them. They seemed really interested and cared about what I was saying which made it really easy for me to talk. My teacher said that this was a very worthwhile experience to attend and I found out that it really was. The whole plan was to "network" with people and I felt that I successfully did that with many employers that I would possibly want to work with in the future.

Books

Some of my favorite book are by the author David Pelzer. He writes about his struggles growing up and how his alcoholic mother abused him. He tells this very inspirational story with some hate against her but then seems to still love her in the end because she is still his mother. He has 7 books that tell about his life from growing up from a small boy to a grown man. He nearly died by the hands of his mother. Either it be by starvation, isolation, abuse, or even just stabbing him straight with a knife. In the year's following his escape from this terrible childhood it was found that his case was one of the most gruesome and extreme as California had ever seen. This may not sound like a happy go lucky story that you want to go out and buy right off the shelf but I highly recommend his books about his life that start off with A Child Called It. My mom got me interested in these books when I was younger. I know it's not exactly a book you want your children to read but when their mature enough to know that this abuse and isolationism happens everyday to ordinary children they will be ready to sit for hours indulged in Pelzer's books. Their easy fast readers that keep you guessing whats going to happen next and what David will try to do to survive his horrible mother. It is a very sad story but to see a happy ending come out of it makes the story that much inspiring. So if you haven't read these books yet I highly recommend either going to your local library and checking out these books or even purchasing them for your own personal library.