Mrs.Powell

= **__ The Challenges of a young child’s Mind __** = I’ve learned at a young age that anything is possible, if you just put your mind to it. That’s what got me here today. When I was about six years old, I remember seeing my father having an argument with my mother and grandparents about how I should behave. He said I had gotten too spoiled. Some days I would wonder if my father would come back but I didn’t worry about that very often. All wasn’t that bad, shortly after my mother gave birth to my sister Maya. As we grew up we started to learn about discrimination so, not being able to go to some places wasn’t new for us. Soon after that my mother had joined the Army. That was a tough time because we had to go where my mom was stationed and sometimes it was hard, because I was still teased because of my skin color. Since I had always remembered what I had learned from my father I will never let go of my dreams.

__ The __ __ Story That Changed That Life __

Loved playing sports in high school, especially basketball. My mother was more concerned with my academics, not basketball so I was not permitted to play on my high school team. I went to a lot of high schools; my grandparents had wanted me to go Hawaii with them. So my mother and grandparents had a big discussion about where I should go and my grandparents said that they would let me stay in their house. So I could finish my education and help me on some things. Since I wasn’t under my mom’s roof I could try out for the Varsity Basketball team. Since I was a tall and lean Player, I had played a three. But I could knock down Jump shots they called me “Jump Shot Barry” and I let my team to the Championship and won and that had helped my self esteem a lot. But my mother didn’t think so because she had heard that my grade’s had been slipping from A’s, to B’s and C’s and she told me that I had to stop playing Basketball and had to start working on my academics more. So she watched me ever since, but she still didn’t think that I cared about my academics so she quit the military and moved to Hawaii.

The __ Senator Barack Obama __

Once I finished high school I had wanted to go into the world of the politics. So I wanted to go to Harvard Law School and there is where I meet this beautiful woman but I didn’t know her name. But I wanted to know her so we started talking and the next two years Michelle and I had gotten closer and closer. But a tragedy happened Michelle’s father had died and I had flown to Chicago to be with her at the funeral. But after graduating they moved back to Chicago and I took Michelle took out to celebrate, and then and there is where I had purposed to her and she accepted. After being engaged I took her to Hawaii to introduce her to my parents and they took her by her charms and her smarts. My mother had told me she was “a very sensible girl”. Once married I kept getting calls about how my father had wanted dreams for me and I just had to find out why so I took Michelle to Africa and I wanted to show Michelle about my heritage in. Africa and while in Africa I had to ask my mother to tell me about what my father wanted. After I wanted to run for president and I was running against John McCain and Hilary Clinton but once Hilary dropped out in her last rally she said she wanted me to win and now it was a race. Once it came down to the last stretch nobody know what was going to happen. So I just wanted to get this over with. Because I just can’t take all this pressure I wa getting ugly letters, phone calls, notes, newspape r, and they would put things like I was in Africa and I wasn’t a U.S citizen. But once it came down to the last night they counted all of the votes and My Votes were 500 and John McCain 320 I won and I was on the way to the white house.