Graduation Speech

GRADUATION SPEECHE

                                            Jesse Anamoo

                                 5/7/16

    Life has       Life is like a soccer game. There is a first half and then there is a second half . The game kicked off when I came to Hynes elementary school. At Hynes, I found my first friend, and to me that was the biggest joy. We did everything together and to me that was what friendship was meant to be. Then I got my first ever yellow card and it was when I got into my first fight. It was not the best decision that I made but it payed of in some way because the person that I fought turned out to also be my friend. We would play soccer together each day after school and some times I would go over to his house, and sometimes he would come over to my house. That was just the beginning, then After I graduated from Hynes Elementary School, I went on to Golf Middle School. At golf, I made even more friends and had even more memories. One of my first memories at Golf Middle School was when I got my first Golf Scholar. I was so happy that I got it because it meant that I was really taking school seriously and cared about my education.

Now, we fa    Now, we fast forward into Sixth Grade. This is the grade  when I made the Varsity Soccer Team. This to me was a really big accomplishment because I was one of the only three sixth graders to make it. We may have been short, but we sure knew how to handle the ball once it was at our feet. We ended up coming in 2nd place that year and that was the end of that season. Then, it was Seventh Grade. Here, I made so many friends that I couldn't even count. I made one amazing memory here and it was when we went to Camp McClain. It was on of the most exciting two days that I experienced. I learned how to fish their, and use teamwork to solve things. Of all the things that I learned how to do at Camp McClain, the one memory that stays in my head is the food. The food there was so good, and high in calories, but I could not resist the taste. The next memory that I have from Sixth Grade was the Junior Varsity Soccer team. We came second that year but we had to fight hard for that because the other middle school teams wanted to get to the top of the standing just like us but we managed to maintain of place. One of our challenging games was against Lincoln Hall. They we the leaders of the leaderboard holding First place. We played hard against them and with about one minute left in the game, we were at a stalemate of 1-1. We both were still battling hard but they got a lucky shot and scored resulting in the winning first place and us winning second place. We were determined to beat them the next year and that was what we were up to. Those were the moments of my seventh grade that were really special.

at our of          We are now in our last ten minutes of the game and it getting intense. During eight grade have so many good times. One of the good time that I had was when my friends and I shared stories about Camp McClain. We told stories on how we each did hilarious things in our cabins, and we laughed so hard that we started to tear up. Although there were many other moments that caused me to get into trouble the memories that stay in my head are the memories that really had an impact on me. Now, we fast forward into a bunch of months and here I am about to graduate from middle school and complete the first half of the game. Golf has given me four amazing years to remember and the stories that came with it, so I would just like to thank all my teachers for never giving up on me and always giving me opportunities to come in and to do some extra credit or to finish my service hours, or giving me an extension for my assignments when they were late. I would also like to thank my friends for staying with me all these years and for never looking down on me and always looking up to me. Finally I would like to thank my parents for paying for all my fees, and for always pushing me to strive to my very best potential. And as Arie Pencovici said, “ Graduation is just a concept. In real life everyday you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference.” I am now going on into the second half of the game and that is High school, and I just hope I make even more memories there.

Testing

Today I will Teach You the steps on How to "properly" prepare for a test.

Step 1: Never Listen in class

Step 2: Never take notes until forced to do so.

Step 3: Never ever keep your accordion organized.

Step 4: Act like you know what is going in the class by raising your hand when everyone else does and hope you don't get called on.

Step 5: Never do ur Homework until 3:00 a.m.

Step 6: Try to miss most of class by staying in the bathroom so that when the others have to do work, you don't have to.

Step 7: Try to stay late after class to write random things in your agenda so that the teacher thinks your paying attention.

Step 8: Copy Copy Copy

Step 9: Try to remember things that you know at the top off your head to try and pass the test.

Step 10: Write a lot of completely false information when it comes to the writing part of the test and don't put and spaces so that it looks like a lot but it actually isn't a lot and them the teacher will think that you did the correct job and get too lazy to read it cause it is to much.

So there you have it, how to "properly" prepare for a test.

Endings and Beginings

  My goals as I begin summer are easy and simple and they like this, Attend Niles North Summer Camp for soccer, Finish up my required classes, and when High School starts its to make it on the senior soccer team. These are my goals because they are what I believe will lead me on the right track as I go through High School. The soccer camps are my main priority because if I excel in that I will have a good chance of making the senior varsity soccer team. Soccer is everything to me and I train most days to improve on my skills so that in High School, they will become very lethal and useful. It is also my main priority because I want to be scouted to be on a men's soccer team while in high school and that can happen through the soccer camp because it will prepare me to play against people that are bigger than me and stronger than me. I play for my clubs U16 team even though I am not 16 and I am on the right track with that because the guys my that are on the other U16  teams are basically in my strength range but when it come to skills they are not much of a match compared to me. As for completing my classes, that isn't a problem for me because I am just taking easy classes so that I can get them out of the way. These are my goals because "with every ending comes a new beginning" 

Field Trips

  My favorite Field Trip that I have been to was Camp McClain. It is my favorite because we spent two days there and in those two days I had so much fun. The first day we arrived, we got to our cabins and settled in. We then got into our groups for our activities. After the activities we went to the food area and got our food. The food there was amazing and so rich. At night we were in our cabins and we told a few stories and joked around. Then, we out to play a huge game of capture the flag. There was a lot of cheating going on but still it was very fun. We played for about and hour and a half before we stopped. By then, my team had one 4-1 and were celebrating. We then we then went up a hill for some camp fire fun. We told stories, sang songs, and messed around. When we got back to our cabins we brushed our teeth and calmed down. Our teacher left the cabin to go to another cabin so we decided to prank him. We were gonna turn off all the lights and pretend we were sleeping so that he would be surprised. When he walked in he said, "Nice try," And that's when we knew that we failed. We then messed around some more and one of my friends threw his pillow at the fan and was told to go to bed, that was very funny and we teased him about it a lot. aw then went into our beds and just talked for about two more hours before going to bed at 6 o'clock am. Then when we woke up at 7:30 am we went to the docks and lay down fishing. We stayed there for about 3 hours before packing our things up and leaving. So Camp McClain was probably my best field trip I've been on.

Holocaust Blog

December 12, 1943
This week mother has picked up a disease that we do not know of. We have been in our little beat up apartment in the ghetto since 1939 when the Jews were kicked out off  Germany, now we are in December and Christmas is only a few weeks away. Mothers sickness is suspected to be from not picking the lice out of her clothes like the rest of us. It is also because she has been working excessively to bring food to the apartment cause father got sent to Auschwitz. I miss father so much and I hate the Germans for taking away from us. I have grown skinny cause the food in the ghetto is very scarce and mother is starting to worry about my health but I keep telling here to relax and not worry about me that makes her worry even more. There has been snow for almost 6 days now and it keeps falling and me and a few others have to shovel it out and that is like a job you can never imagine because your feet are burning from how cold the floor is and your sweat gets frozen on your skin. I came home one day to find mother making food and then I think that her sickness has gone away but then she falls on the floor and collapses but lucky for us we have a doctor who lives in the apartment that is above us and as soon as I call to him he rushes to our apartment and helps mother regain consciousness. Then he tells us that the Germans are coming to take the weak Jews from the ghetto and send them to a work camp so that  they can work for the Germans making war goods. Soon, the following week the Germans come and take the weak Jews just as the doctor said, and take them away and we never see them again and one off the weak is mother. I am now so heart broken that I don't know what to do.

Jesse, Anamoo

Daniels Story

“We must live, and when this is all over, we must work to make the world a better place.  And if we die, we will die knowing that it was not our fault, that we did our best, and we can go to our deaths in dignity… I want you both to live…And to remember...You must choose love.  Always choose love.”  

(from Daniel’s Story by Carol Matas, page 70)

A time when someone choose love was when in the Hunger Games Katnas and Peeta. They choose love over everything else and together they survived and in a way changed the world. They were in the Hunger Games and they had to survive by eliminating other players by killing them. A time came when Katas and Peeta had to choose love because, one of Kaunas's friend died and it was only her and Peeta now. At first they, didn't like each other much then gradually they learned to accept each other. Eventually, the eliminated player by player and in the end they had to choose which one of them would die and which on would survive and since they choose love they almost killed themselves by committing suicide, but then they were stopped by the people who were running the games and they both lived.

Leap Year

  I don't really know a lot about Leap Year, but I read about it online and it stated that every 4 years an extra day is added on to February. So here is a a little bit about Leap Year online. According to telegraph.co.uk, "leap year, where an extra day is added to the end of February every four years, is down to the Gregorian calendar's disparity with the solar system. A complete orbit of the earth around the sun takes exactly 365.2422 days to complete, but the Gregorian calendar uses 365 days. So leap seconds - and leap years - are added as means of keeping our clocks (and calendars) in sync with the Earth and its seasons." I think that it is really cool that an extra day is added onto February every four years, and that it comes down to a calendar and its disparity with the solar system.