Cody Gabriel
Reading 0001
300-500 words


MY LIFE STORY
I was born in Miami Florida on the 02/20/1989 at Jackson Memorial Hospital. My mother tells me this story several time, but I feel like it's the first. The hospital made her choose between her unborn son and death. Obviously she picked death over killing her son or I would not be here today. Furthermore the hospital was wrong, my mother lived to see another day, after having I; e me. I will expound you with the many events. From elementary, middle, high, and what I learned from the first week of college life.
First is elementary school. The first time I went to school. I can remember, It's was easy at the started but hard at the end. Contrast to Miami Dade. Edison park was fun, but I regret never picking up a book at that time. Admittedly for give me I was a bad child. Let me tell you what started this off. I was in the first grade, that's where I started to be more on my own. The day starts off good, go to class then work for two hours after that lunch. Every day was the same way, but not November 3.1995. Lunch was where it all went down. At Edison Park the classes sit together during lunch. This boy from the other class throws a massive amount of milk in the air. The milk spreads and hits my classmates. Someone screams food fight and next thing you know it food was in the air, am telling you there was chaos. The principal stopped every one in the lunchroom, and they was about to get in trouble. But before the fight happened I had gone to the bathroom. As soon as I got out of the bathroom, the principal just look at me and said. "I started this and I tried to run, but he's a step a head." I was clean and the others were camouflaged with food. I got in trouble with the students and cleaned the lunchroom alone. After that day, I was bad half the school year. That evil principal transferred to another school. With him out of the way, my behavior improved, as the school year gone. Graduation was here, finally I got the since to pick up a book to learn how to read better. This was the next step to life. Entering a new world, and ascending a level.
Second was Jr. high, the first day of school was not good. I had many disputes with students. Like always I have been going to class on time, and doing my work. Some students think otherwise. Children throw things frequently around the classroom and also in lunch, at that age. The first and second did not hit me but the third did, we exchanged words then got in to it and started fighting. Just like that the first day, became to ten days outdoor. When that was over I returned to school once again, and ran in to the basket ball coach at Horse Mann Middle. I started playing basket ball for the first time. Since then, time passed very quickly. I was in the seventh grade already. I had grown over the summer, six foot at the age of twelve years old. I can remember it like it was yesterday. My first game at the school was the thing I feared the most. I never played basket ball. When the coach told me to get in, I was ready. People cheering, coach’s was screaming, and the other player talking smack in my ears. It was the best time of my life. The basic concept of this story, is to never give up on what you love the most in life, it will pay off. The first time I accomplished a dream, was when Horse Mann Middle school basket ball team was the winners of the 2004 championship games. I will never forget that day. But it was not like high school. Miami Edison Senior High school was the most corrupted high school basket ball team ever. They never work together as a team, my ninth grade.
Next were my first year, and a new school and team. Not trying to seem pessimistic but, going to Miami Edison Senior High School was a bad idea. From the whole four years I’ve been there, all I learned was FCAT. Starting with Reading 180, yeah I may have passed the FCAT in the tenth grade, but that’s all I knew at that time. Then after that I forgot every thing I learned from the FCAT, my senior year. At that time basket ball was not always on my mind. Graduating on time and going on with my life was the most important thing at that time. Because every year I seen a senior crying or dropping out because they have not pass the FCAT. Going to prom was the most horrible time of my life, and no I didn't have the money to attend granite. Walking down that hall at graduation told me that this was something I was born to do, to be the first in my family to go to college.

Finally I accomplished another part of my goal, next was college. But things started to go bad after graduation. I got fired from my job and lost with my friends. Always scared of new life meeting new people, The last week of college at Miami Dade, I had professors that are funny, smart, and will qualified for there jobs. In conclusion I hope Edison park, Horse Mann, and Miami Edison teachers done there jobs right. I wish to be successful in the future.