https://padlet.com/jshtbb7/8khart50hmyr Made with eyes on the prize en-us 2018-10-28 17:00:28 UTC 2024-06-06 09:46:29 UTC hello@padlet.com jshtbb7 https://padlet.com/jshtbb7/8khart50hmyr/wish/297773967 "lemme start with my greatest struggle...and its not that my life has been the hardest but there have been certain things that have been ... made things a little more difficult, sometimes made things a little more interesting, sometimes made me take different paths i dont have much of a family I was an only child - well i still am an only child i suppose - my father passed away when I was very young - i was just ten - and so it was just my mother and I - my mother and me i should say. Its one thing to lose someone it another thing... - well this is an expensive area - and there were some things that we kinda had to go without sometimes there were things that were kinda limited because of ... finances. So there certain things I turned to, because they were more accessible. Reading - because u have the library - and books are cheaper than a lot of things. The only way i got into sports was if the equipment was provided ... or if in some way i could be helped out - i would golf because someone cobbled together a set of golf clubs for me from a lost and found - they were pretty neat, but what i`m trying to say is it was a struggle because I think that sometimes one I was kinda kept from accessing certain opportunities - that money would open, and also because as a kid ... it was a very clearly demonstrated sign that i was different" ]]> 2018-10-28 17:01:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jshtbb7/8khart50hmyr/wish/297773967 jshtbb7 https://padlet.com/jshtbb7/8khart50hmyr/wish/297784588 Thats a lot of time to think of like the funniest moment or a thing that happened that was funny. Ok, this is one funny thing: so i was a skateboarder and i like to tricks and all kind of things like that - to the point where if i was walking down the road and there was something to jump down or leap over or something like that i would just do it. i`d walk on the wall sometimes - its fun. So I was at the mall onetime to pick up my girlfriend in primetime and everybody was around and I came in through the side, and i felt like i wanted to like simulate like a wall ride over the wall/over the trash can and take a few steps on the wall over the trash can. I thought that would be cool and normally I would do that and land it and i would just keep walking - didn`t really care what anybody thought, because i just wanted to get up over that and ... take a few steps on the wall. So im cruising through and its a marble floor and i go to do that and its in public and there`s all these people around and I tripped while i was taking the steps on the wall and I just went (smacking sound made with hands) flat, flat grounde, right on the marble it was just SLAP, real loud and i tripped over the top of the trash can and knocked the trash can over too. So it just looked like i jumped over the trash can and kicked it on the ground for no apparent reason. And everbody`s lauging at that and i just sorta got up straightened out the trashcan and walked away and just sorta continued and just sorta swallowed the pain. ]]> 2018-10-28 18:21:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jshtbb7/8khart50hmyr/wish/297784588 jshtbb7 https://padlet.com/jshtbb7/8khart50hmyr/wish/297805455 I think um my greatest triumphs has been being always myself, adapting myself to the different situations, whether they are good or bad always, always keep uh focused of who I`am. I think my greatest strength that I have is being sensible - you know - sensitive to others. to help others, it makes me accomplish whatever I want just by helping others in general whether it is my family or my nieghbors. I been in a different culture and having a family you know having my kids I think that ... its been the struggle of my life all along because sometimes I felt like i`ve been a single father for many years ... i think every family whether you have a wife or husband is gonna struggle raising there kids in my opinion I feel that I struggle a little more because I dont have that much of the support of the mom ... but i think yeah my greatest thing was having my two kids. ]]> 2018-10-28 20:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jshtbb7/8khart50hmyr/wish/297805455