My Plans For The Summer


This summer will be a cool break for me because I may be taking a trip to the bay area where I was born and raised. Now the trip im taking will be more of a incouragement to keep myself on the right track,and to realize where i came from and where I am going. Im also going to see my grandmother who live in oakland ca. I may go with my older brother Mark, I plan to only visit for 3-4 days then come back and take care of some things which i need to get together around my house so that i could prepare for my daughter to come spend some time with me. When I leave heading toward the bay im going to stop in the city of fremont where I had lived in a group-home for to almost 2 years. I want to thank the owner of the group-home for giving me an opportunity and a chance to better myself. I also want to let her know that i am now attending college witch many of the staff and counslor that work there believed I would more then likely see prison or county jail. I have changed my act alot and she one of about four people who knew I was a smart kid, but I just wasn't appling myself. After leaving fremont im going to head to the city of Oakland to see a couple old friends talk to them for a while then I will go to my grandmother house where i my remain for that night. me and my brother will plan a great place to spend time with her for the next day, also Where going to attend a church service with her at my moms old church where before passing away she became Member Of The Year for her last 2 years. Once we finish showing my grandmother a great time. the next day we are going to the city of Richmond where my mom & sister was barried,and put some flowers on there grave at Rolling Hills grave yard. Once we've done that we are getting on the freeway going back to Merced so that i could get ready for my daughter to come spend a couple weeks with me.

Living on your own is one of life biggest challenges. I've live on my own before because of satuations with my brother after my mom past away. But it was nothing like it is now.Just a month ago my brother and I decided to rent a house out making monthly payments. Living on my own is really a challenge now because I don't have all of the resources I need. Now so far it's been going good i get alot more freedom and space, my brother is kind of a pain in the neck but i'm use to him. Rigth now there are many things I could already see I'ma have to change in my life if i want to keep this place such as buying things i don't need, spending time playing around, not working, and also being lazy. I do understand what I have to do I just have to apply myself and understand that I'm doing these things for myself. I understand that life is not easy, but after really thinking and taking time to listen and understand whats being said to me, and about many different things thats going on today i realized life is not hard either it's whatever you make it. And I plan to make my life worth every second I was given to live on this earth. My change is starting today.

My thoughts of the sucide shooting that occur on The University of Virginia Tech college campus was a massacre leaving 32 people dead and another 21 people wounded after the shooting. after hearing about this,reading about this,and also dicussing this harble tragedy with my teacher and classmate I open my eyes and look around thinking anything could happen and knowing that I would never know who's holding unreleased anger. Many people felt that the guy who committed this inresponsable act had know reason because of his success in school being a senior. but what i was woundering about is how do a college perfessor, other teacher take the treats and comments this guy made toward people for a joke and continue letting the remarks with trying to get help for this guy or isolating him from other students at the school. truly in my heart I feel that every school should have started taking school safety serious after hearing about the colibond school shooting. So basically i just wantn to tell each and every school to keep there student and campus safe and also listen to your students because you may know alot about the student school and class work but its take a little more concern to understand a students life outside of school.

My spring break was nothing like I planned it to be, but I still was happy with what I accomplished. I got a chance to buy new thing and also fix things around my house, for the rest of my spring break i got to spend time with my daugther and took her places that excites her. On Friday April 6 I started my spring break, I woke-up about 8am and ate breakfast after eating I crused by varies yard-sales and other stores looking for things that I could use and put in my house. after 2-3 days of just finding the basic things we would need to be able to cook ,clean , and entertain ourselves after finding those things I decided to go spend time with my little girl for a couple of days. I decided to go to stockton , once i got out there my daughter mother pick me up from the amtrak station. She First gave me a ride to my brother house were me and my brother decided to go to the Jackson casino once I got there i wanted to gamble. I approached a machine i put a $20 in the the slot it was gone and about 2 minutes, so i tried another $20 that was gone and about 5 minutes so i said forget losing i'm taking my time , but i got the same results i was getting when i rushed so I told my brother im going to wait to you finish then we can leave 20 minutes later i found myself losing more money once we left i thought to my self im never coming back.

Donte Ayers
English 90
Travel Itinerary for Trip to Reno Nevada


Day 1 april 6
Drive from Merced to Reno(4hr 45min)(371 miles).Take 99-N to sacromento.Brief stop in sacromento to visit family & eat a snack, also take pictures(45 min). Get on fwy 99-N merged to I-80E crossing into nevada. Take exit 13 toward downtown Reno/virgina st./keep striaght to go onto maple road, turn rigth onto N-virgina st, us-35 Br lead to the Nugget Hotel.
Take my aunt Tamika out to eat at anywhere she choose to. She wants me to go with her to a nigth club and spend the nigth with her to save Hotel money.

Day 2 April 7
Wake-up at 8am, breakfast at my aunt tamika house which would be a regular home cooked breakfast.
10am I will check into the Nugget Hotel for one nigth.12noon I leave the hotel to eat lunch at any specail place of my choice. about 1:30pm I would go shopping for somthing to wear for that day and go back to the hotel. (3pm getting dressed)from 4pm-6pm I will be riding around the city and the casino areas taking pictures and of nice views.6:30pm-8pm I would attened a jazz musical at the hotel.8:30pm-about 12mid-nigth I will go around and gamble at the casino's according to the amount of money I have. About 12:30am i'll be going to sleep.

Day 3 April 8
wake-up about 8am and eat breakfast at a near-by denny's. Go back to the hotel and pack my things preparing to leave back home.

I know theres alot of jealous people around but I never thought I would feel that way about anyone esle. I geuss being jealous or envious toward someone at times is uncontrolable. I've never been jealous of anyone before but this time I tink it was because I had my chance and I blew-it trying to be kool around my friends. Well just let me tell you what happened the first day I realy felt jealous of someone. It was about the third week of my seventh grade school year and my friends and I decided we would go to school dressed a little alike. When we first got to school there was people looking at us admiring the close that we ware. Now im feeling cofident in my self so i decided to try to talk to a girl that i have been looking at sence the school year started. I approach her with a smile on my face, I heard my friends in the background laughing ang giggling at me. I ask her for her name and she replied, "Tamika". I then ask her do she have a boy-friend she replied "no and I don't need one". So i asked her could she have a male friend, she said "well I guess if my other friend don't get mad so I ask her, "who is your other friend", and as soon as i said that some guy name kieth walk up to her and said,"hey tamika who's this" she said "my new friend Donte", oh said kieth as if he was already her boy friend. Once friday came me and my friends went to a middle school party that one of my friends cusin decided to have because of his birthday. Once i step in the party i seen a couple people that I know from the school i heared one of my friends say, "Donte look at Tamika" I said, "so what I catch her later on tonight". I was having fun all nigth but that one final song came on and I was looking for tamika to see if she wanted to dance bot she was already dancing with that guy keith I was not jealous until the next day when i geuss over that last dance they decided to start dating i felt like she dissed me without warning. This guy really had me jealous and I was made at myself because I was never was a jealous person but I geuss everyone has one time in there life to be jealous and that was my time.

A DAY OF EMBARRASSMENTS


On april-fools day of 2001 my frineds and I decided we would go to the Bayfair Mall to buy some clothes & shoes then go to the century theater to see a movie that just hit the big screen. We all left my friends Lawerance house on our way to the Mall. Once we entered the Mall we went directly to Foot-Locker shoe store to pick out some shoes. All of our shoes were $64.00, our parents had given each of us $75.00 Once we got our shirts which was on sale for $2.oo each. We decided to go eat at Denny's. All my friends knew about the Grand-Slam meal they have for $3.99 plus tax. As I went to wash my hands I seen that my neighbor works there. As i walk back to my seat I seen the plates getting set on the table but I also seen my friends laughing, when I set down my friend james said," you know after we pay for this we will not have enough money to go to the movies". After finishing my plate I heard Lawerance say,"on your mark, get set, go," and before I could ask them whats all that for, they both got up and ran out the front exit I tryed to get up and run but after three steps I twisted my ankle and fell to the floor crying, the neighbor called my mom and told her what happen. My punishment started by getting slaped in my head in Denny's. After that I had to take my shoes back and pay for the meals, then once I got home my older brother punch me in my chest around his friends. Once I got in the house I had to turn around and go to the docter and get my leg wrapped with an ace bandage, when I got to school the next day the word was I twisted my ankle getting a whoopen. Now that was embarressing.