I remained an A-B student receiving awards for my excellence. Although this experience hit me hard, I was able to pull through and set my priorities in my life. With my father no longer in the picture and my mother paving my path into success I began to set myself straight. I became more involved in extracurricular activities. I played sports year round in high school consisting of volleyball, soccer, and softball. I began doing clubs and running for office the same year. Within Student Council I have held the office of sophomore class treasure and student body parliamentarian. In DECA I held the office of secretary and will be holding the office of treasurer this upcoming year. I am active members in HOSA, Key Club, and National Honor Society. I have managed to be involved in school as well as my community doing Relay For Life and hold a job at Dairy Queen maintaining a 3.75 GPA. I am extremely blessed to have my mother, because without her I would not be able to do as much as I do. She is my motivation and inspiration to be better and do more than she ever could. She pushes me to do the best that she knows I can, she supports me in everything I set my heart to do. She is my only family, along with a grandmother, grandfather two aunts one uncle and six cousins. It is a small family, but one that is united and always there for one another. I have always had a small family and never imagined it to grow in the …show more content…
One of the weekends I spent with my dad, I met my half-brother. Meeting my half-brother for the first time was definitely a strange feeling knowing that I now had to share my dad with another woman but family as well. I did not hate my brother, he was not to blame for the position I was in. As I talked to him more and got to know him, I grew to love him and try to stay in communication with him now. A few years later after meeting him I got to meet my half-sister. I was there the day she was born and fell in love with her the moment I saw her. She was a beautiful creature that came into this world, I was honored I would have the chance to be part of her life. As perfect as she was to me, she was born with eating problems. No milk she would drink would go into her stomach and she would choke. A feeding tube was then inserted through her nasal cavity down to her stomach. She was underweight for the first few years of her life and the doctors were deciding to have her keep the tube permanently and have surgery to have it put through her belly button. I remember my dad holding her, feeling sorry for what she would have to endorse. Looking at her with love and remembering the last time he looked at me that way. She did not need to have the tube permanently attached and was able to begin eating whole food at the age of two. This is when her mom and my dad started noticing her have speech problems. She would have