How Pekin Changed My Life

My name is Justin Schultz I was born in Elmhurst which is a suburb of Chicago. Most of my child hood was spent playing with my friends and my brother. My brother was three years older than me and his name is Joey. My Dads side of the family all lived near us and my mom’s side of the family lived in Dubuque. We would visit my dad’s parents often and my mom’s parents would come up like once a month and because the water in Dubuque was good they would always bring a jug of water.

I have come a very long way; the four years since I started have only progressed with intensity and involvement with music. I know the next years of my life will only be more intense and more involved with music, and I hope that it can become a career one day. Music has allowed me to express myself during my happy moments, my teenage angst, my depression, my heartbreaks, and it has always gotten stronger, and it carries me with it. I cannot wait to see what music I’m creating in five, ten, or fifteen years. One day, I’ll look back to the songs I have finished in my younger days, and I will be reminded of my high school years, and what I was going through during those times, because, to me, music is

After reading our pages for this week, and reflecting on my own songwriting and reading about other songwriters it helped me see again why I love this so much! I ended up really relating to a lot of what was stated in these first 50 pages. Where I am from which is called Bloomfield Hills, everyone their seems to be living in their own bubble. Everyone calls it The Bloomfield Bubble. Not joking its a real thing. I’m sure you have heard about my area that I is a very wealthy area snd everyone is materialistic and rude. That is true for those selected few but, other than the few exceptions the rest of us are just like everyone else. One of the big things that is a “normal” situation that happens after you graduate from high school is that you

Growing up, I never considered myself as truly talented. I would watch my friends as they excelled in sports or received their black belt after playing the hardest song on the recorder. At that age, they probably dreamed of becoming a professional athlete or a musician, but where did I stand in all of this? Everything I did was either subpar or mediocre. There was never a field or an activity that I dominated in (except limboing but that won’t get me anywhere in life). It wasn’t until one day when I saw my friend crying on our first day back from spring break, when I learned that I did have a talent after all. After consoling her, I learned that her grandfather had passed over the break; but I also learned that I have a raw talent for comforting others, talking to them, making them feel just a little bit better about life. As I reflect on this day, I know that my young, psychoanalytic self was born to be a psychologist.

I was born May, 30th 1989 at Wadley Medical in Texarkana, Ar. I was born to Kym Crispino from Queens, NY and William Lee of Hot Springs, Ar. My parents were young when they had me. We were very poor at times, but they always made sure I had what I needed. I was an only child, but grew up around plenty of cousins. I have lived in Texarkana my entire life. My parents split up when I was twelve, and my mother and I moved out into the country on a dead-end street with no children in the area, I became very sheltered and a little socially awkward.

Every story has a beginning, mine starts in Oak Hill, Ohio. I was born on February 18th, 2000 in Gallipolis, Ohio. I live in Oak Hill, Ohio and go to Oak Hill Middle/High School. I live with both of my parents (Sabrina and Kenneth Burton) and my little sister Amber Burton. My older sister goes to college now and does not live at home with us .I am a really nice, responsible, and hard working person. I have won many awards in both marching band and HS choir. Some of the awards range from the best dancer to one of the most dedicated members. I have not yet finished high school, but it is my senior year. After I graduate I plan on attending Shawnee State University to become a Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA).

Hello, my name is Tre Torrez. I was born in the south central part of Los Santos, also known as Ganton/Idlewood. I am 24 years old and I am currently UNEMPLOYED. I have 2 brothers one is 21 and another one is 27, that makes me a middle child. My brothers are Michael Torrez and Marcus Torrez. I grew up with just my father around in my childhood. My mother was killed in a car crash in the year of 1998 so I was only 8 years old when that happened. My mother was Mia Torrez and my father's name is Tre Torrez. I was named after my father. I lived in the Los Santos area for 11 years then I moved to Bone County for 1 year. I moved back to Los Santos because I did not like how quiet it was back in Bone County. We lived in a small town called Fort Carson.

So I would like to present myself officially. My full name is Andrea Paniagua, I was born on May 4, 1996, which makes me 20 years old right now. I am from Hendersonville, North Carolina, but was born in Naples, Florida. I am Mexican American. Both of my parents are from Mexico, my mom was born in the state Guanajuato but raised in Mexico City and my dad was born and raised in Mexico City. I have a total of 6 sibling which all of them are half siblings. I grew up all my life with only two siblings, which I call them my full blood siblings. I have two loving parents, my dad and mom. I have a strong bond with both of them but I have a stronger bond with my mom, she is more like my to go person, my best friend. I have a boyfriend who I have been dating for three years. I have one dog and then my family has another. In other words I have two dogs but one is mine and the other is the family dog. My dog is a Shih-Tzu and the family dog is a German Shepard.

I was born in Craven Community Hospital in New Bern North Carolina on Thursday, May 23,1991. Craven Community Hospital is the only hospital in New Bern, both of my parents born in the same hospital. New Bern is a very small city in North Carolina many people have never heard of it, a lot of my family on both sides still live there. Like most cities in North Carolina, they are retirement cities, everything moves slow down there and there isn’t much for young people to do. Due to this, my parents moved from New Bern when I was about six months old, we moved to Maryland with my grandmother, my mom’s mother. We lived with her until my parents were able to get their own place. My grandmother loved that we had

From the day we’re in our mother's stomachs, to the day we die, we have always been listening to music. For me, listening to music all my life helped me develop a passion for it. When I was around the age of 6 my dad introduced me into the world of Rock. The very first band I remember listening to was System of a Down and ever since then, I fell in love with rock music and all its possible variations; for a long time this was all I listened to. It wasn’t until high school that I started listening to all sorts of genres and realized that I wanted to have a career in the music industry. That's when I learned about producing music.

I am Brandon Dean Chambers and this is my story. I was born February 3rd, 1997 at Ponca City Hospital in Ponca City, Oklahoma. I was born to the mother of Angela Dawn Adams and father Willard Dean Chambers. My mother had three children at the time, all girls; my dad had two, one boy and one girl (both were grown at time of my birth). I started off living in Ponca for about a year were my dad work as a chef for a country club and I’m not sure what my mom did. Then after that year I moved to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma were I spent about fourteen years of my life.

I am Briana Roper, I am seventeen years old, I was born on October 18, 1997 in Washington North Carolina. now I live in Greenville North Carolina. I live with my mother and step father plus my six brothers. My step dad is a truck driver, my mom works at Asmo, my little brothers go to North West Elementary. I am the only daughter that my mother has and the only granddaughter plus the first born out of all the kids in my family. I do not know my real father, I never met him. I go to North Pitt High School, class of 2016.

I was born on May 2, 1994 in Orangeburg, South Carolina and moved to Columbia, South Carolina at the age of two. I am the oldest of four children, the two youngest being my paternal half-siblings. Growing up my hobbies were volunteering, fencing, cooking, and outdoor activities. At the age of 12, I began my work career by volunteering. Legally, I was too young to work but I knew I would need job experience to get a job one day. Over the next three years I volunteered at a community center for library (Richland County Public Library- Sandhills Branch), a community center for low income children (Bethlehem Community Center), a

The time I’ve spent over the summer I listened to a lot of music and its was mostly hip-hop and R&B and rap, but I liked pop as well as a genre in music and while I was sulking over my old life in Wallingford school I developed a close attachment to music to deal with the emotional tension that was going on within myself. At the time school at Branford had started and I didn’t know it exactly at that time but this was the point where I was started to write music I was hooked on all the music from over the summer I guess my mind started translating beats and words and I can recall these beats and words because these became my first song ever written while I came to Branford. The periods I spent over the course of the first year at Branford had been socially and emotionally traumatic for me I cannot lie; the people there were nice some friendly and some not and I found myself alone most of the time. At these point in school I started to question myself and my social skills with others and my self-esteem continued to drop.The epiphany I had happened when I felt as though I wasn’t important anymore and when that happened I started to write songs to express these feeling inside of me;I hadn’t said anything about my days at school to anyone besides my mother, but even with her she couldn’t fully understand what I as in my situation was going

Ever since I was born, there’s something about music that takes me away and focuses my mind on the music and lyric you could say it traditional, contemporary or anything. I used to imagine it’s impossible for me to become a musician because of where I am from and of my age but there’s something that pushes me to