Salvador Elmundo Argueta's Life

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The life of my brother On June 26, 1996 in a Red Bluff hospital, Salvador Elmundo Argueta was born. After being born, the family moved to Orland, and that’s where he is raised. The two peaks of his childhood were both made at the house in Orland. One was when he jumped on the trampoline so high he thought he could get on the roof. Then on his birthday, he was blowing out his candles, when his older sister slammed his face on to the cake. Nick Graham his best friend, had many great memories together since they have been best friends eternally. One day, Sal went over to his house and nick left the room. Sal thought it would be a magnificent idea to hide behind the door and scare him. So when he went to go in his room, he then jumped out and Nick screamed out like a girl. Right after his mom yelled out “Shut up”, right after there was just pure silent. …show more content…
While in high school people often called him Bruce Lee because he made people think he was a distant relative. His favorite class was Science with Reimers, he didn’t really have a least favorite. He would say that “It wasn’t the class that was bad, but if the teacher taught with passion, you could tell.” I remember this one time in Milhorn’s class this kid was whistling and he got irritated so he yelled at the class. Then he said “Next person to whistle is getting a detention.” So I acted like I was about to whistle and while looking at me he made sure I wasn’t. But right after he turned around I whistled and he turned around and yelled for me to go outside, it was really

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