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How Honor Society Changed My Life
My life started on December 13, 1999 In Ahoskie, North Carolina. I was born at 12 p.m. As my family would tell it was a very different day for everyone. I was my mom’s first born child and the same for my dad. I really don’t remember much about my childhood. The furthest back I remember is like 4th grade way back when I made my mother proud. I had straight A’s and I never had a single write up. I always tried to do the best I could to get through the years and I did well until the sixth grade. My fifth grade year was slightly bad but mainly good. In fifth grade I was in the National Jr. Honor Society also known as the NJHS. It was a group for the junior high successful students who believed in accomplishing many goals and those who had many dreams. I had great grades throughout 5th and sixth grade. …show more content…
She told me to follow her to the office. We arrived to the office and she told me to have a seat. I saw her head to her desk and started dialing the phone to call someone. What killed me was because she called my mother and, she told my mother that she was writing expulsion papers. I had never been in trouble before so I was kind of nervous. I was afraid to see what my mom said about it. Long story short I got expelled in sixth grade behind the wrong crowd doing the wrong things. I already knew that wasn’t the path that I wanted to take so I had to change my plan up. I decided to go stay in New York with my cousin for a while. I went to New York and to be honest I enjoyed it. New York is a place with lots of opportunities. I went to New York to find an opportunity. I went to create a new life. Thinking that I was getting away from trouble but the whole time I never noticed trouble is everywhere. So I stayed in New York for a while but, I also told my mom to register me for job corps. I looked into job corps and it had everything I needed. It had a High School Diploma and a Trade that I could invest further in

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