I Have A Love For Music And Basketball

My relationship with my father had shaped all my experiences with my friends, family, school and even careers.

Watching movies is a great way to learn and study different interpersonal relationships. A lot of them are just like real life situations that happen every day between people. One of my favorite movies is Love and Basketball. I chose to talk about this movie because in my opinion it really focuses on the relationship of the two main characters. There are good moments and bad ones in their relationship with one another. I also believe there are a lot of different things the characters could have done and said that would have made communicating with each other a lot easier. It’s one of my favorite movies and I have learned a lot about communicating from it.

On my mother’s side everyone is close, almost all of them were in san antonio, and according to my mother i’d want for nothing. However i wouldn’t truly be apart of the family, they don’t know how not to bad mouth the fathers (since 3 out of 4 of my mom’s sisters are divorced), and i wouldn’t be free to be me. On my father’s we know very few members of our full family, they’re scattered all over the world, and i’d have very little luxuries. But at least there i’d be free to be myself, i’d get to travel, and i’d have a village of people i’ve grown up around to teach and take care of me. You understand my decision

A couple of themes related to my mom’s story are her experiences with fleeing from Vietnam to Hong Kong as a refugee, immigrating to the United States, and obtaining citizenship. For starters, my mom was born in 1962. She was born in Vietnam, and fled the country with her family in the 1970s. Her family was comprised of eight members with four sisters, one brother, a father and a mother, and herself. During the interview, I found out that my mom was born in Haiphong,

On April 2, 2017, I interviewed my mother Tracy To, who is 53 years old. She experienced the harsh events of being involved in a communist war in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge. Luckily she was able to escape the control of Pol Pot and the mass genocide that followed shortly. In 1974, she was one of the 158,000 of Cambodians who sought refuge in the United States and become an immigrant in California. During this time period, the Vietnam war also ended and the United States faced an influx of millions of Southeast Asians looking for a better life. My mother and her siblings were the lucky ones that escaped the inhumane treatment in their home country of Cambodia.

Although I had no father figure in my early life, I grew up with my mom and my grandparents. I had an extremely loving home where if I got to the protesting part of when a family member wasn't paying attention to me that was enough to get them to attend to me and my needs. This carried me through my life, where my family allowed me to “feel felt” at all times growing up and my general sense of well being in my life has been pretty intact. Of course there were times when the triangle was broken. These times included times like, when my mom got married or when my little brother was born. The connection to my mom was shifting because she suddenly had others to attend to and couldn't always focus on me. This led to some depressed and saddened times for me; I was not longer “feeling felt” by my mom. Luckily for me, these shifts in our relationship leveled out and we reconnected once we both got use to the

He was the perfect example of how to wear an armour into work and always take it off when you come home. He taught me values such as how to create boundaries, and how to understand that bad people do not make up the majority of the human population. My father taught me that the human race is instinctively good. This idea is engraved in me and dictates how I choose to live my life. My sisters represented the delicate balance of love and hate. Most days, we played together. Sometimes, they thought I was annoying or different. For the most part, our relationship is healthy and continues to grow in different ways as we get older together and learn that we have each other for life. My step brother and sister float in and out of my world as events such as marriage and having children happen. I believe that the family dynamic my parents created was healthy, and the values that my parents instilled in me would be very useful when working with family

    In life, many things can be taken for granted - especially the things that mean the most to you. You just might not realize it until you've lost it all. As I walk down the road finishing up my teenage days, I slowly have been finding a better understanding of my mother. The kind of bond that mothers and daughters have is beyond hard to describe. It's probably the biggest rollercoaster ride of emotions that I'll ever have the chance to live through in my lifetime. But, for those of us who are lucky enough to survive the ride in one piece, it's an amazing learning experience that will influence your entire future.

mother met my step-father a couple years after. Since then, I could say he’s been the greatest father ever. I was growing up with him, and I always viewed him as being my real father. I never had that father figure till he came. I mean I love him because he had the guts to accept my mother with a child. He turned out to be a good role model for me. He taught me morals and values, something my other father never told me. My step-father loves my mother. Both of them struggled economically at first, but they worked hard to raise me right and become the person they want me to become. I remember my step-father telling me that everything will turn out right. He wasn’t like other step-fathers who abuse their children.

Growing up with a father that was never around and a father figure that also left was hard, but it taught me that I don’t need a father to rely on. I have myself and my mom, and as long as I don’t forget who I am I

I never really knew my father when I was growing up. I was raised by my mother and my little brother's side of the family. My own family was across the ocean in California. By the time I was nine I

The family structure that I grew up with as a child, was my mother, her second husband, my step-father and their two children, my half-sisters. I never knew my

I believe that having a relationship that changes your life or changes the way you think or do something is very valuable. Having that kind of relationship with my father is very impactful on my life. All the positive aspects of our relationship comes to my mind. Reflecting on our relationship, many stories are emphasized in our relationship; stories that were impacting and made me who I am to this moment. My dad is a business owner, builder, ex-skater, drum player, video gamer, soccer player, loving husband and father, and a faithful servant to our Lord, Jesus Christ. So being able to relate to my dad is very easy to me, for I share many of those talents and hobbies. As the oldest son in the family I didn't really have anyone to look up to or strive to be like a certain person that was close to my age. That led me to walk in my dad’s footsteps. Watching my dad give glory to God for all that he has given to our family was truly incredible to me. My dad’s work rate, his ability to help others when they need it most, his ability to get tasks done thoroughly was amazing to me. I truly know that he is a wonderful role model for me. Three stories come to mind when I think of my dad. He taught me various things in every one, they are: to listen to God when you struggle, to work hard and finish things well, and to love others even when we dislike their motives or actions.

A couple years later my mom starting dating a man who is now my stepdad. He never had kids of his own making it harder for him to communicate and understand a young person like myself. I would always try to act older when I was with him, maybe I could tell he had difficulty interacting with young kids. As a kid I would only talk to my mom it was to the point where I would tell my mom things to say to other people for me, my stepdad being in the picture taught me how to interact with someone besides my mom. He played a huge role in shaping me into a young adult.

Basketball is my favorite sport because I remember at a very young age of about three or four years old, in 1998, I first watched a National Basketball Association (NBA) game. I was watching when the Chicago Bulls was playing as I sat in the living room with my father and my uncles. I didn’t know what they were talking about, but my eyes were glued to the television when I saw Michael Jordan dunked on two people. His performance gave me the motivation and I started playing basketball to make a career out of it. I wanted to move my family out of the poverty without any financial worries so I stared practicing each day. Every day as I was on the basketball court playing, I used to wake up early in the morning dribbled the basketball from my house to the basketball court and into the park. I was about fourteen years old about to go to high school so I was practicing to make the tryouts. It was the summer time like around July 2009 and at first, I wasn’t good enough so, I told my mother that I needed a couch to work on my feet and left hand. She called one couch up and we had a one on one session to train me. After practicing, I went back to the courts and played a full court game with older and bigger guys. It was five on five and I was the youngest of them. I had a little jump shot, but I really had a back board shot. I was good with angles for a little man at that time, but I was only getting better. I started challenging grown men that were old enough to be my father. I lost some games, but won a lot plus my younger brother was always there with me. He used to stay on the sidelines watching because he couldn’t play with me. Yet, he was too young at the time to