Rodney Yap's Success

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As I ran to Mr Rodney Yap’s class, I told my friend to wait outside of class for me and I said “it's only gonna be 15 minutes maximum.” He waited for me, our plan was to go Long’s after I was finished. As soon as I got there, Mr. Yap was waiting in class I could here all the kids talking, yelling, running across the class. And I asked “ready?” Rodney Replied “yes”, and so we began.
Rodney Steven also known as Rodney .S, is an athlete who went to college to follow his dreams. First of all Rodney went to Sanozasalty, California when he was 17 for one year then went to Hawaii college for the rest of his school years. He was a state champion hurdler in 1979 from Saint Anthony. Rodney went to California college (Sanozasalty) mainly because the team was good at Sanozasalty but not only that he had many family at California. Rodney said “I was a big fish in a small pond for the first day” because a lot of people knew him. When he went to the track team he said, “I was a small fish in a big pond”, he had time to adjust to the new school and California's weather. Rodney didn't dislike any of his college classes and teachers, He liked that California was cold and he liked all of the seasons there. Rodney did dislike one thing-he disliked that no one showed up to his hurdling. His
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Rodney’s social life was very active. He had a lot of girlfriends and it was very fun for him. Rodney had a celebrity girlfriend. He had a pass for games for free to football games. The teachers were independent, it's mostly on the student and what the students wants to do to succed the teachers were friendly, Rodney's idol was Bob Jones that he wanted to be like. Students could even walk in late and walk out early or whenever they wanted he also stayed in dorms, apartments and even on campus apartments, he was also really busy with his

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