The auditorium then became silent after one of the staff members had said that. A man with dark skin and nicely dressed in a gray suit soon came up on stage to give us a speech. “Don’t ever let anyone tell you can’t do something, keep believing in your dream work for it, and it will come true. My friends laughed when I told them I wanted to be a music producer, my teachers believed I would end up dead; but now look at me. I made my dream come true. And I believe that anyone can make their dream come true, I bet my career on it.”
As soon as Harmony Samuels was talking about his experience of his dream coming true, the auditorium was filled adults from different schools, and there were camera …show more content…
At first I thought he was just saying he would, but in the end he wouldn’t. Just like in the school’s club fair, were you sign up and say you will join the club but in the end you don’t end up going to the that club you signed up. Though last year I was part of Arc, but I wasn’t in the leadership class instead I was in the edible arts class. There I learned how to make different flower designs inside a Jell-O and also how to make some pastries. In the end of the year I stopped going to the edible arts class, not because I wanted to but because one day the teacher didn’t show up. We were told that the teacher wouldn’t be coming anymore since she wouldn’t be able to make it anymore. After that day I didn’t think much about joining a different program for ARC. It was a good idea because at that time my mother was worried that I might get kidnapped because there was a flyer informing parents that there were people in a white van trying to kidnap …show more content…
There was an art class, but that one at the time didn’t have a teacher yet. I decided to take the leadership class instead as I waited for the Jell-O class to return. When I first joined, I was lost and confused. I didn’t know what to do. I saw people painting posters, but I wasn’t sure if I should be painting a poster as well.
I slowly started to get rid of my shyness in ARC. I am still a bit shy in class, but in Arc I’m not that shy anymore. I have now gotten familiar to everyone’s friendly faces; they are like my family now. I know it’s cheesy to say that they are like my family, especially since it wasn’t so long ago that I met them, but I have gotten close to them after spending a lot of after school hours with them. Also that the fact that I knew most of the people before I joined this program; they are my friends after