Malik Bosques: A Personal Essay About Myself

My name is Malik Bosques , I’m 14 years old and what’s unique about me is my long dark brown hair. I’m 6 foot tall and of Puerto Rican decent. My birthday is on March 17th, right around the corner. I go to Woodbridge high school, I play 2 sports which are Football and Basketball. I am the middle child of three kids, my little brother is 12, my older brother is 18 we all with mom and dad in an apartment. My family is Hispanic, my parents speak fluent Spanish but My brothers and I do not speak Spanish at all. I live in a town called Woodbridge, New Jersey. I like to listen to music because it motivates me to do things like push myself to do more workouts than I want to do and helps me concentrate on work. I like to hang out with my family
because they make me happy and they respect me for who I am instead of criticizing me for doing things even if I don’t do anything bad. Things I do well are play football, basketball, math, read, work out, write, play video games, chores, cook, clean, fix technology, And a little bit of mechanic.
My strengths are bring respectful, well mannered, kind, caring, try to be funny, trying new things, dedicated, committed, loyal, responsible, smart. My abilities are playing football, I played football in my freshman year of high school I was decent at the sport but I believe I can do way better at things if I really try, play basketball, I never played on a team but I play outside all the time and im good at the sport but I got to work on some minor problems, I like to learn about astronomy because I love to learn about space and other planets, when I was young I wanted to be an astronaut but its to much to go through to become an astronaut but if I tried I could’ve been one but I want to be a soldier in the national guard, I like to work because I can have money whenever I want and I can help out my mother whenever she needs some money to buy something or pay some bills, that’s one of the main reasons I want to get a job. I am good at playing video games because me and my family used to have a family game night and we used to have tournaments and make some bets because it was fun to do. I’m good at playing football and basketball because me and my dad used to play the game a lot and he used to train me because he wants me to go pro in one of the sports I play. I enjoy hanging out with my best friends because they
make me feel good about myself even though we have our ups and downs they will still and always have my back and be there for me just like I’ll do for them. Some of my struggles are getting to school on time because I have to walk and I like about 45 minutes away from the high school in walking distance, I get a ride but the person who gives me a ride gets to school about 3 minutes before the late bell rings.
Another struggle is staying organized because I try my best to keep myself organized and when I do someone always moves my things to a different spot and loses my things and I cant find them. Its hard to concentrate in school sometimes because there are kids in my class that talk a lot and than the teacher can never talk and I can never hear the teacher. Doing homework is another struggle because I need help on a lot of questions sometime because I’m not the smartest person in the world and I have problems understanding things
sometimes. I have a lot of goals for my future some of them are to be successful because if I have a kid I want him/her to follow in my footsteps and not take the wrong path of life so than he/she will be broke and poor when he/she grows up. Another goal is to try to make it to the NFL because my dad would like to see me play everyday and have a wonderful life with a job that I would like and because he trained me to make it pro. Another goal is to make it to the NBA, it will be hard because I trained myself in that sport and I’m pretty good at it. I need to work on a few things so I’m going to try my heart out to go pro in basketball.