On the morning of July 17, 2004 my mom received a phone call from the Poughkeepsie Police Department. This phone call changed my life forever. The Dreadful news my mom received and relayed to my sister and I, was the passing of our father. I was overwhelmed from the news I received about my father. I didn’t know how to express my feelings about the loss of my father I kept all of my emotions bottled up. The one way I knew how to express myself was through art. i began drawing or constructing different crafts out of any materials at my disopsal.
I had drawn anything from cars, shoes, people, buildings, houses, and even the interior of buildings and homes. What I enjoyed drawing the most was the interior and exterior of homes and buildings. I had no knowledge on why I enjoyed drawing the interior and exterior of homes and buildings. Until …show more content…
I came home from school and began asking my mother many questions about the field of work that my father had done before his passing. . My mother told me my father worked in construction. Then I began to ask what type of things he built. She said “Your father built homes for your family in Jamaica with his own hands and he even rebuilt Mr. Tom’s kitchen.” Once I was informed about the things my father done in his line of work before he passes, it gave me an interest in wanting to go into a career of architecture and design.
While I was in the 6th grade that’s when I began to take architecture seriously. I designed and constructed a prototype skate park. I made the skate park out of card board and iron hanger. When I entered middle school I was enrolled in the honors AVID program where students in grades 7th to 8th became college bound. During my 8th grade year I began to do a lot of research on architecture and design. At the end of my 8th grade year I sighed myself up for my high school’s engineering program called Project Lead The
I had drawn anything from cars, shoes, people, buildings, houses, and even the interior of buildings and homes. What I enjoyed drawing the most was the interior and exterior of homes and buildings. I had no knowledge on why I enjoyed drawing the interior and exterior of homes and buildings. Until …show more content…
I came home from school and began asking my mother many questions about the field of work that my father had done before his passing. . My mother told me my father worked in construction. Then I began to ask what type of things he built. She said “Your father built homes for your family in Jamaica with his own hands and he even rebuilt Mr. Tom’s kitchen.” Once I was informed about the things my father done in his line of work before he passes, it gave me an interest in wanting to go into a career of architecture and design.
While I was in the 6th grade that’s when I began to take architecture seriously. I designed and constructed a prototype skate park. I made the skate park out of card board and iron hanger. When I entered middle school I was enrolled in the honors AVID program where students in grades 7th to 8th became college bound. During my 8th grade year I began to do a lot of research on architecture and design. At the end of my 8th grade year I sighed myself up for my high school’s engineering program called Project Lead The