I get along with my dad. But my mom is dead. I never really got along with her because we were so much a like, but my dad and I’ve always close. I loved both of my parents. I don’t really know if they trusted me Because they just let me do whatever I wanted.
I think that drugs and alcohol does cause violent. People that are on them are not in their right minds. When you are high you try things that can hurt you. That is because you can’t feel anything. You do it cause it feels weird when you do those things. So on drugs and alcohol you are likely to get hurt.

Nena

What have I learned from an older person? I have learned a lot from older people. My grandma has taught me the most. She taught me to have respect for myself before I can respect anyone else. The most important thing she has taught me is that I have to trust. I could not trust anyone before. She sat me down and talked to me for a very long time about that. Now I trust a lot of people. Maybe not as many as I should, but I trust a lot more.

Do I know anyone who has died of a drug overdose? Yes I have known a lot of people that I have died of that. My friend Nichole she is alive now. Her heart stopped when she took one to many pills one night. I was there when that happened. It totally sucked. It has affected me so much. I watched one of my closest friends go from a beautiful girl to skinny as heck and taking all sorts of pills for her heart. It is crazy how fast it can happen. It changed my life forever.

Jen

How do you deal with gossip?

I generally try to avoid gossip because I don’t like to listen to it. I hate it when people talk about me or spread rumors about me regardless if they are true or not. I think it can really hurt people and make them feel worthless or bad. It happens all the time, and nobody is excluded.
Do you know anyone who has died of a drug-overdose? Describe them. How has it affected you?

Yes, I have lost the most important person in my world to a drug-overdose. My mom died because of it. It destroyed me and is one of the very worst things that ever happened to me in my life. I loved her very much and she was one of the greatest people I ever knew. She cared so much for us kids, and did everything in her ability to take care of us. She was so thoughtful and generous even though the drugs made it hard for her to be her true self. She still tried to help everybody around her. She was not a bad person, but she just had a problem which eventually took away her life. No matter what mistakes she ever made, I will always love her. It has affected me in so many ways.

People always think that drugs only affect themselves but that’s not true. It affects everybody around you. Especially when something like that happens.

Nichole

Teenagers vs. Parents

I think teenagers argue with their parents because kids want to do everything they want to, but the parents have been there done that. They don’t want their kids to make the same mistakes as them they already have been through it so there trying to stop it. On the other hand, though kids want to live their life and learn their own way, kids should be smart and learn from their parent’s mistakes.

My parents tell me crap all the time that I shouldn’t do because they have had bad consequences, but I don’t really want to listen to them all the time. All I want is to live my life the way it is and not listen at all to them. This is why we argue all the time is because I hate listening to them because they are always right.

Luckily my parents trust me pretty good. Sometimes they do get suspicious but that is ok. I’m use to it. My parents trust me because when they do get suspicious I’m really not doing anything bad. I don’t think I have ever done anything to break my trust. Hopefully the arguing can stop soon and my family will be happier.

Sommer

Embarrassing

Have I ever done something to impress someone I liked? Honestly I don’t really think so but I have embarrassed myself in front of someone I liked. If I didn’t embarrass myself, then my dad or step-mom or my stepbrother or my little nine-year-old sister would do it for me; never fails. She’s probably the best at it! She got this brilliant idea to bring out the family home videos of when I was like six or seven. Well I had quite a bit of people at my house that night, including the person I was dating at the time.

They helped hold me down and started tickling me and then started to give me a “pink belly” while some of the others pulled out their phones and started recording it. My face was so red and wet from all the laughter tears! Well once someone sent me what they recorded of me, I saw myself dancing in these ugly pink shorts with a different colored pink shirt. I was shaking my seven-year-old butt to Ricky Martin. Can you say EMBARRASSING? The next day at school, everyone knew who I was and what I did when I was little.

Maryssa

If I could change my name, I wouldn’t even want to. I would keep the name I already have. I don’t mind my name at all. My mom named me Alexa for a reason. It would probably make her really sad if I changed my name. Plus I think Alexa fits me. I can’t imagine myself with any other name.

I don’t have a favorite television show. I really like the murder mystery shows though. Snapped is one of my favorite. I think it is very interesting.

My very biggest dream is to travel the world and try everything once. One of the places I want to go first is Egypt.

Alexa

5 Goals

My goals in high school are:

1. graduate, I want to graduate because I want a good job so I can go to college and get an even better job so I can support my family.
2. Accually get a job so I can have money and go out and buy my own things.
3. Get good grades in school so I gan graduate and then that leads to my first goal and so far they are all connected.
4. Work on all of my problems because I have a lot of problems nd they will not help me along my way to having a good life.
5. Make lots of friends, because friends make me happy and help me with my goals


-Tom