Dear Ancestors

Dear Ancestors,

Thank you for the struggle to make a better way for me.

In this day and time I believe that we all have just lost sight and its just the blind leading the blind. Lessons and challenges I have been faced with would be the lack of love sometimes displayed by my own people. We can't seem to come together to talk about our problems. I plan to overcome this obstacle by not becoming another statistic, by not blaming my insecurities on the world and by helping the world as I see fit. I feel that people have lost hope and turned their backs on one another. I feel that we really need help as a nation to be able to reach out.

I don't want to think that all of your work was in vain, but it seems that a lot of your work is being forgotten. Still, I want to thank you. I will try to use your legacy to help encourage and nurture my people back to a stable place to the best of my ability.

Sincerely yours,

Mykia

(Mykia Robbins, 9th Grade)

I Remember

A moment that remains important to me is when I almost had straight A's on my progress report. The reason that this moment remains important to me is because after I received this report, I knew that I had the potential to get straight A's on my next report. I told myself that if I could just work a little harder that it would be normal for me to get straight A's. Making good grades means that I have to maintain them. If not, then it would be as though my success never happened at all.

(Arnesha Randall, 9th Grade)