Thinking back toward my life. I wish I could have done a lot better in regards to my education. Since I had a lot of support inside the school environment. I wish I would have showed up more, and focused more while I was in class. Especially in high school.. The high school I went to was called Lehigh Valley Region Charter School Academy. They were based more on an academics then sports or any other activities. Was it hard? Oh yea, trust me sometimes I use to stay up until 4 am just to finish a project on time. I tried so hard to keep up but I couldn't since I started to slack and get back tracked with everything. It was just a brunch of work due at one time. I would tell myself that I would do it later. When later came nothing was done. I had so many people who supported me through all of it. Teachers who would go out of their way just to help me out and to stop slacking. Without them, I would have probably dropped out. Thankfully, my experience in that school showed me who I could really be. They prepared me for college and also prepared me for the life ahead of me.  My teachers showed me that I could get out of the life that I was in and make myself a better person. That truly was what inspired me to keep going and change the path I was going down. I can relate to Malcom X when he was stuck in jail and made sometime of himself. Although he did not have the same support I did, I can empathize with him. I can under the feeling was wanting to be something better and do something with your life.



        

What is home? Home can be defined differently depending on the person. But to me, Home is where I feel safe and comfortable. It were I can do what I want and no one can tell me nothing. It were can freely go into the cabinet and get whatever I want. Home to me is where I feel good and not awkward to ask if I can use the bathroom. To me home, is where you know you can't be judged or have to act a certain way to make others feel comfortable. When I get to my apartment, I enjoy being able to just change out of my day clothes and into a old t-shirt with some shorts and not care. Why? Because I can do it because I am at my personal primary home. Although I consider my mothers house my 2nd home, It is not same feeling. Therefore, why is that? It is almost like a system that automatically understand that you entering a place that is not your own and you have been given a certain amount of "common sense rules" where  you automatically know what to and what to not do. When I go to my mothers house, I can't just walk around naked. It is strange and weird. But I can take food from her house and take it to mine. Now, if I am invited to a friends house for the first time and they are more like a "co-worker friend" I can just go through their kitchen cabinets for the first time and search through their stuff. That would be ignorant and rude of me to do that. Home is somewhere were you feel free to do what you please.