Personal Narrative: I Am Aliyah Shaleese Crawley

It was a delightful feeling to converse with many of my fellow students that share the same passion as myself.

On February 28, 1998 at 11:50 p.m. a baby was born in Moultrie, Georgia. Who was that baby you might ask, well that baby was me. At three pounds and four ounces, and almost a leap year baby I was born into the world as Iesha Monika Williams. I was the first child to parents, and the only girl as the time went on. Even though I was born in Moultrie, Georgia I was raised in Thomasville, Georgia and have been here ever since. I have two younger brothers, the ages of sixteen and seven, name Trey and Jamari. I have a puppy name seven or seven-eleven, he answers to both. I also have two parrots name pinky and binky.

Today, I find myself as a junior at Bryant University. It was a journey to get to this point, attending two schools and multiple of classes spreading across various topics. In the past when I have looked at my future in regards to a career, there was a lot of unknown. I have changed that through the help of my families and professors, the most important people in my life. Each day my view of the future gets clearer and more confident.

At the beginning of my ninth grade, I started to feel and sense I was in a different environment from Jr. High. I became more serious about my school work. I started performing at such a higher level than ever before. I became an A-B Student and score advance on my SATP Algebra I test and proficient on my SATP Biology I test.

I am Gustyn Wright. I'm 12 years old, about to be 13 years old in November 19. I was born at the Jasper hospital. I live in Taswell. I am little bit taller than five foot. My favorite things to do are play outside, hunt, play video games, and watch Duck Dynasty. I don't like video games as much as playing outside. My favorite things are outside, my family, me and my friends. I love girls, me, my mom, my dad, my sister and all my other relatives, and my friends. Things I don't like are my sister, my mom when she’s mad, and clowns. My family is Gordon, Dana, and Sylvia. My favorite holiday is Christmas because we get presents, my mom and dad are off, and it’s Jesus’s birthday. My best friends are Evan, Michael, Jesse, Nathan, Conner, Peyton,

My 7th grade year was much easier because I was used to being in the school with the big kids. Sports weren’t the same as they were in 6th grade. I didn’t get playing time because the 8th and 9th graders. It wasn’t too much fun playing with 8th and 9th graders. The work was still easy except for science I never understood it. It caused me to have a d in science. My 8th grade year was not so bad. I got better at sports and got a little bit of playing time. My grade in science still was bad. I got in trouble in my English class because we had had Ipads and figured out how to text on it. Kids in my class and I were texting each other on it and the other kids started putting bad stuff so I pretended that I was our

I, Jamari Evans, was born on September 19. It was born a toasty, glamorous Tuesday morning. My middle name is Dre’Quan. My nickname is Mari. I was born at Beaufort Memorial Hospital. My parents’ names are Jeanette Bright and Jeffrey Brantley. My father died when I was one years old, in a car accident. My mother works on Hilton Head Island at the Westin Resort & Spa. I have two older sisters and two older brothers. Before I moved I was living in Lobeco, South Carolina. I presently live with my mother and stepfather in Green Pond, South Carolina.

I was born on September 26, 2003, at the Northridge Hospital. My mom had just rented an apartment for a roof to live. She wanted a fresh start for her new daughter, but we were only going to live there for a few years. She named me Janellie because the name Nellie runs in the family. My grandmother’s name was Maria Nellie, and many of my cousins are named Nellie as well. My father still wanted something unique for his first child. My mom already had a daughter with another person years before she met my dad. After a while, my parents decided on naming me Janellie.

Middle school was just the beginning for me. When I came into the middle school, I thought I wasn’t going to survive but later on I realized it wasn’t terrible at all. I've made some great memories and the best one’s were here. Fifth grade was the start for me, sixth and seventh grade shaped my personality, and eighth grade made me come into contact with myself.

I went on the Vistory trip to Camden, New Jersey. I went with two of my really good friends. Camden was different than any other city I have been in. Despite the fact it was city filled with poverty and crime every person I spoke to who lived there was so kind and happy. To see people with such hardships be so happy opened my eyes to how blessed I am. Along with that aspect of the trip, I bonded with many other Vis girls I would have never been close to if I had not gone on the trip. It was truly an amazing experience. A low point in my life was freshmen year. I had a lot of friend drama and negative energy. I was not myself and lost my fun sparky side. However, it all turned around sophomore year and I found amazing friends who put a smile on my face

I am Janae Beasley. I am 26 years of age. Currently, I reside in Maryland, in a town that is very modest and peaceful. I have a dog named Sosa, and an array of fresh water fish. I am a wife to a man with a heart of gold and a mother of an energetic, fearless, and amazing nine month old baby boy. I thoroughly enjoy: planning events, singing, going to church, watching animated movies, listening to music and spending time with my family.

I would like to change myself. I would have positive thinking, for example, from a big family they said about me that I cannot study from the abroad. I think their comments are my inspiration. I will fight and compete with only myself and do not compare with others. When people do their best even the results are good or do not good. They will be proud with it. Also, I cannot go back in the past and change, but I have to move forward and learn from the mistaking, which happened in myself.

I didn’t have many friends and didn’t get along with them. 9th grade wasn’t bad, it was actually a very nice year for a lot of reasons but definitely not because I embraced myself. My friend from 8th grade as no longer my friend as 9th grade rolled around and eventually him and I got into a physical confrontation, which I proudly won, what an awful way to start that year but the closure really did make me move on. 10th grade I started going to LCTI and at that point I started to realize that rather than being someone who worked for life that I lived life. I started going to different clubs that year after school, none of them were that great but I had fun. I did my best in LCTI and did what I wanted to do. I always had my eyes on being a computer programmer. I had major success and happiness. I had stayed who I was and with a few adjustments grew in those aspects and developed some others. From my success and honesty to myself I realized how important these things were. When people ask about me I always have something to say. Chris had forced himself into the wilderness and for me this was a smaller but personally huge step. I had started hiking into the better parts of life. He had went his own path and so did I. I was leaving the swamp, killing the hydra and becoming a new

The end of eighth grade was coming faster than any year before. It was about to be summer and most of the eighth graders were eager to be a freshman in high school next year. I was not so excited about this. School used to be hard for me, waking up, discussing with new people, being in classes that I struggled with eight hours each day. Speaking in front class petrified me to the point that I did not want to ask for help. There never used to be a time that I felt confident volunteering, raising my hand, or presenting in front of a class. I soundlessly coped with anxiety through eighth grade, causing me to be unsuccessful in a few classes, and wanting to not go to school most days. High school is incomparable to middle school, I knew this change

I am Diana Sarabia, a Mexican girl who came to the U.S. at the age two around the end of February of 2001. My first two years of being in California I lived in of East L.A, not far from here, but for the past 10 years I’ve been living around Downtown L.A. My native language is Spanish and that makes my second language being English. At times English does seem a bit difficult since I was the only one at home who spoke it in my house and I didn’t have anyone helping along the way other than teachers and some tutors who helped me a lot into learning at this new language, but that didn’t stop me then and it will not stop me now in enhancing my vocabulary. I live with both of my parents (thankfully) and my little sister. My occupations consist of writing poetry and writing songs. I am a big aficionado in the art of one’s voice. Poetry and music consist of lots of passion. It’s so intriguing to see people put what they feel in a piece of paper and share feelings with just phrases and verses. In a near future hopefully being in two years would be to attend to MIT