Special Olympics

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   A few days ago I attended the Special Needs Olympics. The Special Needs Olympics was a very interesting experience. It was an interesting experience that gave me mixed emotions. I felt like a really blessed person while I watched people with a disability see life in a positive way.

          
     I saw a lot of great things at the Special Needs Olympics. I saw some very nice helpers called ADT's. ADT's are the people who helped the participants play games and helped the participants feel good about playing the games. That made me feel blessed because the ADT's were volunteering to help people on their spring break. The ADT's attended the highschool were the Olympics

               
     I got to see the cool games that the Special Needs Olympics had to offer. The participants went from looking frightened like a baby deer caught in headlights, to looking like a person whose dreams came true. That made me feel happy to see the participants enjoy what they were doing. I also got to see my cousin Jalen faced his second biggest fear, wheel chairs. He had to face his fear or he wouldn’t have been able to play the fun games that the ADT's had. Jalen sucked it up and played basically defeating his fear for a brief moment. That made me feel really good for him and made me feel blessed because of his courage.

    Jordan, my friend, and I walked around so we could see all of the participants/ADT's show there stuff. Once you got into the core of the arena there was an ocean of wheel chairs. During my walk around one of the participants chased Jordan and I. That participant also pushed my mom. At that moment I felt like we had to go as soon as Jalen got his reward for doing very well. I didn’t want to leave because of the kid chasing Jordan and I. I wanted to leave because I didn’t want Grier (my little sister) to get run over.

              After seeing people who can barely move look so delightful I thought something new. The new thing that I thought was that I need to stay positive because if people who have disabilities can stay positive I need to stay positive when things are going tough for me. 

Success

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                                                            Success Essay

            Success is a powerful word. Success these days usually refers to the accomplishments of famous people. I feel that everyone can succeed. Success isn’t just people knowing your name because you did something good. Becoming successful is completing something to the best of your ability.

           Part of success is failing which happens to the best of us. I have failed before just as I am sure you have to. Since I am an actor I perform in plays etc. I believe I have failed when I did not put forth my best effort.  I feel that when I fail I did not do my best. Even if people compliment me on what I believe is a failed performance. When I fail I feel the regret of failing. I also feel knowledge for a step closer to success.

          You accomplish something in order to be successful in my opinion. You don’t even have to accomplish something big, the only thing you need to do is  accomplish something. Although success feels a lot better than failing,  success takes more work. When I feel like I have done my absolute best I feel successful. Success requires hard work and perseverance. In most of my plays etc. I perform to the best of my ability. In my most recent play (The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe) People followed me out of the theatre to congratulate me on my performance. That was success not only because I was congratulated but because I thought that I did my best. In a nutshell I think success is feeling that you did good.

   

Push Ups

                 
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          Hey, I'm back after a very long break sorry. I'm a busy man I got to do what I got to do. The story I am about to tell you is a true story that happened last weekend on Fathers day. It all started when my grandpa came up to me and said "I can do more pushups than you". I looked at him like he was Frankenstein but on drugs and said "Pops if you think you can do more pushups than me then lets do some pushups right now." He said, "I want to see how many you can do."

            So I did 36 pushups real fast because I didn't think my grandpa would be able to do that many pushups. So as soon as I stop everybody was all like " You could've done more." and "50 are challenge worthy". I got so hyped up because of them criticizing my push up capabilities. I basically told them I could do 50 now after the matter of me completing 36.

                     They all thought that I couldn't complete the 50 after completing 36 so they all put $5 on that I couldn't complete the pushups. I walked out of there with $25 dollars. Everybody thought I couldn't do it but I did. So I proved that I am the pushup champion (compared to my grandpa -.- =.= -.-'). But I think doing 86 pushups in one day is impressive.

                          I have spent $9 and I think I want to save the rest for my bday (July6).

GOOD NIGHT TRI-STATE AREA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!