My name is Ameer Anderson i’m 17, i’m in the 12th grade , I grew in Chicago IL, and I go to North Lawndale college prep. If I could use two words to describe me, I think I would use adventurous, and open minded. I say this because most of my life I think I have always waned to do new and different things and wanted to get out of my bubble to meet and to see how life is out of my comfort zone.
I have also learned to listen to others and try my best not to be so stubborn and learn to take advice. When I was a little kid I didn’t talk much I remember the first day of first grade when I was the new student in the school and I didn’t talk to anyone for almost a whole week. Thankfully a girl who I didn’t know came up to me, and said hey, and asked me if I wanted to be friends and I said yes.
I couldn’t remember the name of this girl but I just know she was loud and would try to be friends with everyone no matter if she already knew them or not. I think this interaction with this girl kind of made me the type of person I am today. After meeting her, and becoming her fiend I started to open up to people more often. I went to not talking to the students to raising my hand to answer questions that teachers asked in class. I remember one day my teacher said to the class “whats 12×12” and, I raised my hand right away and said 144.
Even though I don’t know this girl anymore i’m still thankful for her coming up to me that day because if not I might not be the type of person I am today. Fast forward about about 7 years later I think I was finally in the 8th grade. 1st through 8th grade kind of flew by in an instant ,and now that I look back and think about it for some reason I wish I could go back and relive those days when I was about 13 or 14.
I find it funny though because a good majority of my childhood I always use to say to myself I can’t wait until I get older and become grown so I can do what I want to do and not listen to no one and now i’m tuning 18 in a couple of months, in my last year of high school and all I want to do is be able to go back to my childhood to be in middle school again.
I remember in the 7th grade when my science teacher Ms.Solola got our room a classroom pet and that pet was a snake. I have never seen any snake before besides the garden snakes in my front yard. More less I never seen one that big . The first time my class seen the snake we were all scared of it and didn’t want to go near it then our teacher asked us who wanted to hold it and and no one raised their hand but me.
I knew I was scared and still held the snake and I was shaking and the snake was moving around in my hand because it could tell I was nervous. now that I look back at it I was glad that I held the snake, and would do it again if I had the chance. My whole life I’ve always gotten advice from my teachers and family members to my friends and even strangers on the street because I use to get in trouble a lot, and get in fights. In a lot of ways I think i’m blessed, and i’m very grateful for all the people in my life who have given me that advice to try to help me in life, and even if I didn’t say it at the time i wish I could let all f them know it.
The reason why I say this is because for someone to genuine give you advice in person to your face they have to actually care about you to take time out their day and care about your well being. I didn’t really like listening to people when I was younger because I was kind of a bad kid and didn’t really think the stuff that people told me was for my well being. I just thought that they wanted to get me in trouble, and that they wanted to give me a hard time. I now realize that they were trying to help me and, when I turn 18 I won’t always have someone in my conner guiding me and telling me the wrong and right thing to do.
Don’t get me wrong always tried to be respectful , but I just aways had this frustration behind people telling me what to do and because and I have grown a lot to not be that person anymore. For of all of the people in my life who have help me through the trials and tribulations i’m proud to say that i’ve grown into a nice young mad who still makes mistakes but tries to learn from them, and is always open to genuine advice from others and will always be grateful for that advice.
In conclusion i’m a black young adult named Ameer Anderson i’m 17, in the 12th, who goes to North Lawndale College prep, and who lives on the west side of Chicago who is open to new things is grateful for his peers and will always be open to new advice from others who genuine care about me and who will always respect others who respect me.
