<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pacers fan forever @ Jul 16 2007, 10:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Wow, I've had a very easy life compared to most of you</div>Everyone here loves being melodramatic.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pacers fan forever @ Jul 16 2007, 10:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Wow, I've had a very easy life compared to most of you</div>I'm sure your life is a challenge, petting giraffes, going to Mormon school, must be a tough life man.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ReppinTheD @ Jul 15 2007, 10:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Born on February 2nd, 1988 in Alexandria, Egypt. I am the first child, to two parents - both Egyptian, as well. I stayed in Egypt untill I was 5 years old, when my parents decided to move to the United States. The U.S. was regarded to be a great move for the family because it would provide us with a better education, and better opportunaties. I have two sisters, and one brother. Our first ever 'place' was in Novi, Michigan...there I went to elementary school called "Hickory Woods" - because my parents were totally new to the American system, my teachers were so helpful in making the transition an easy one. My 1st grade teachers came over many times for dinner - and basically helped my parents with some options regarding school and stuff. My teacher even bought me a pair of snow boots because she saw that I had none...my parents had no clue about snow and all that...Egypt is hot. lolI stayed in Novi until half of middle school. My parents had bought their first house in West Bloomfield, Michigan...there I finished off my middle school at Orchard Lake Middle School. After Middle School, we moved once again to Bloomfield Hills, Michigan where I went to Lahser High School. In high school I was a really good kid...I was a 4.0 student for the first two years...I graduated with a 3.7. I played highschool soccer, and played a bunch of intermural basketball. I wasn't great or anything - it was all for fun. Summer of my Junior year, I started getting out more. Before than, I wasn't really popular or anything...I knew only like 2 people when I first moved to my high school - so it was difficult at first. I only started to make more friends in my junior year of HS. I began partying, and eventually through partying I began smoking marijuana. After HS, I had the option to either go to Michigan State University, Wayne State University, or University of Michigan. For financial reasons, I stayed home and went to Wayne State University under a full scholorship. I was bummed about staying at Wayne State...but am not anymore because it's introduced me to so many things that I would have never known or experienced. Right now, I'm in my 1 1/2 year of college...and I'm doing extremely well. I am going for a psychology major with a minor in journalism. My plan is to get to med-school at Wayne State - which is one of the best med schools in Michigan. eh...I missed a lot of things, but w/e.</div>Lahser ey? My high school whopped you guys pretty good in the State Semi-Finals a couple years back. :dribble:
Wow, I probably couldn't live with myself if I attempted suicide. I havn't even thought about killing myself. Ever. That's a very dark thought, and it would also be a selfish act. Imagine what it would do to your parents. It would ruin their lives too, not just yours.As for my life, I really don't have anything interesting to say, but I'll give it a go.I am from Halifax, Canada, and I've lived here all my life. My dad is not jewish, he is an arab from Morocco, Africa. After I was two years old, he decided to divorce my mom and move back to Morocco because he really didn't like it here. He had two other kids over there with another wife, and I've only seen him twice since then. It's not a big deal to me because I've never really known him. It's probably tougher for people here who have divorced parents at a Grade 3 I moved next door to him in a significantly bigger household, although it's still not a great house. I started to get close to my step brothers that were around my age, and I started going over there every day. We went through some rough points, but we also started to develop as a family, We even went on a trip to to Florida about 4 years ago, I think it was.2 years ago they finally got married, and that's that. As for sports, I never really got into watching sports at all until I watched it with my current step dad. It was football, not basketball at first though. My dad is a casual Patriots fan, but he still liked to watch some of their games. I didn't know anything about football or any other sports at that age, but slowly I started to get into it. And after a year or two I knew more about the NFL than he did. For basketball, I just started watching some of their games on TSN. That was around Chris Bosh's rookie year. They were a crap team, so I still wasn't a fan. I watched like maybe 5 of their games that year. But again, slowly I started to take an interest. The year after that I actually watched about half of their games, and I started to notice espn message boards, so I began posting there even though I still knew nothing about basketball. But I learned, and slowly I became a fan of the team. The year when Mike James came, that was my first season being a real fan. I watched probably 80% of their games until Chris Bosh got injured, and the games became unwatchable. Then I started posting on BBW, and again slowly, I began to build all the knowledge that I have about the game. Now I am a very good fan at the tender age of 14 years old, and I've got a long road ahead of me of watching the NBA, NFL, and Raptor and Eagles games. I've been an Eagles fan longer than a Raptors fan actually. Since like 2003, I've hosted Super Bowl parties with about 4-5 people invited over...we have chicken wings, watch the game and then have fights during the commercials.My social life was great before Grade 7 ended. Then just something happened. I matured from the jackass kid who made fun of everyone for entertainment, and I became much more thoughtful and insightful on things. I still have a good group of 4-5 close friends, but I only go out for half of the weekends now. I'm going to a different school next year with my best friend that is very close to me. We've already talked about sharing a dorm room in university.That's about it. My life has become very interesting in the past 5-6 years. Before that it was boring as hell...
Alright, lets see... I can't even remember what I had for dinner last night..I was born at Providence Hospital in Southfield MI, April 26, 1993. I was born 4 weeks premature or something like that. I had to stay in the hospital for 2 months because of it. I'm an only child, which has it's advantages and disadvantages. My mom and dad don't make tons of money, but as long as we're happy I don't care.I first picked up a baseball bat when I was 2 years old. For 5 years now, I've done year round baseball and I can't get enough of it. I'm going into Walled Lake Central High School as a Freshman, and I hope to make Freshman and maybe JV/Varsity if I'm lucky.I played football for my 8th grade team last year, but I don't think I'll do it again in HS. I started on the offensive/defensive line and played some linebacker/corner as well. Which is odd, because I'm only 5'7 135 pounds. When I played basketball I played the 4 and the 5. And now that I think of it, I play 1B in baseball. What's up with all of that?In school this year, I maintained a 4.0 throughout the year. Compared to 7th grade when I didn't give a crap and was around a 3.2-3.6. I'm taking 3 honors classes next year, which kinda sucks yet is good for my education. I have a close group of 4-5 friends in which we all hang out together, and then I have some not as close friends who are all over the place. Preps, skaters, goths, nerds, you name it.That's pretty much it. There's more I could put, but I don't want to put my life story here. I've had it VERY easy compared to some of you.
I suppose I'll write up one for me..I was born on April 11th 1992 in Atlanta, GA. I am the oldest of three, my brother is now 10 and my sister is 5. I've lived in the same house my entire life. Its a 3 bedroom house, and we got it for only 40,000 like twenty years ago.. My parents don't make a ton of money but they still send me and my siblings to private schools.. My dad is an insurance guy and my mom is a court reporter.. I'm going to be a sophomore in HS, and its one of the biggest private schools in the state of GA, although its one of the cheapest.. My brother/sister go to my old school, its Pre-K through grade 8. I had a 2.7 GPA to finish the year, but its very deceiving.. I'm a real smart person, but I do not apply myself AT ALL.. Its pretty ridiculous, I don't do anything at all in school yet I still passed every class. I've got probably 3-4 real good friends that I'm real close to, and alot of other friends that I just hang out with at school.. Baseball has been my favorite sport forever now, and I first started playing in a league when I was 4.. I play all year on a travel team, and I've been playing on my HS feeder teams since 7th grade. My dream is just to get a scholarship to a college for baseball.. I also play football for my school for only one year, but its also an all year commitment.. I work out/condition every single morning from 8-10, and on Tuesday's we have Passing League.. I am a free safety, I'm 2nd string.. 1st string is the son of an NFL player..so :closedeyes: I play basketball for my school, and I played AAU for the Atlanta Rush.. I'm a 2 guard, I can play point or even the 3.
This a crazy thread redneck. It just makes me feel old. Here goes:In 1971, I was the first born child of a smalltime North End Detroit coke peddler and an woman that got class valedictorian just before she got pregnant with me. They got married. My moms told me that she read to me from the classical literary canon every day in the womb because she didn't want a child to grow up hating to read like her. The Detroit riots three years prior to my birth really affected my mother and she told me stories about tanks parked down the street from her mother's house.When I was one, these two cats knocked over the dopehouse we were living in and put a gun to my head. My mother gave up the coke and tossed out my father. Then she got with him and had another son and threw him out again. During the time before this last breakup, I was already reading and intrigued by my father's collection of porno mags, I got my first erection. It hurt like hell and would sporadically give me on fire erections until I was six. My mother alleviated this by washing my dick with a red rag she kept handy, even at family outings.When I was four, she remarried and just before, the dude asked me if my brother and I would change our last names. My mother told him that I spoke for my little brother and myself (this is true. my brother talked only to me until he was four. I think I taught him.). I refused, inadvertently kicking off a long war between us. Physical abuse soon followed and I became a huge F*ck-up until my senior year of high school. I don't have anything against whipping a kid's ass to keep him in line. But the guy doing it should never enjoy it so much.I was a huge misfit in school (probably, I still am), and the only people I stood against were bullies and bureaucrats. I still hate them. My only escape was books. My parents always hated sending me to my room as punishment because what kind of parent could take books away from their kid? Discipline has always been a challenge for me: from the outside and inside.It took me five years to graduate high school because in my first sophomore year, I tried to set Redford High School on fire one Sunday night as a form of protest to what I considered a concentration camp, gladiator culture in my school. There was a police mini-station in the basement, one across the street, and green jacketed security with metal detectors, and someone still got shot in gym class the first week of school. After the expulsion, I attended St Mary's of Redford for two years, returned to public school and graduated from Henry Ford H.S. with a 1.49 cumulative g.p.a.My mother had always pushed school on me and I had gotten so sick of Detroit that I went along with her plan. We went to a Black College Fair at the Renaissance Center and the only school to which I applied accepted me because I had a good SAT score and I wrote a corny letter begging to get in.I managed to get into Talladega College in Alabama on academic probation and promptly made the Dean's List my first semester. I graduated in 1995, held down some jobs and am in the process of teaching myself how to write the great American novel.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tHe_pEsTiLeNcE @ Jul 16 2007, 02:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>that's cool that the arson story you wrote was based on real events. Are all of your short stories?</div>Yup. Thanks for reading it. I took it down to clean it up some.
I was born on November 28, 1992 in North East Washington, DC. Even though I was born in DC, I was living in Bowie, MD at the time. I lived there for about a year. Then moved into DC. I attended Peabody Elementary in 1997 for Kindergarten. Then for 1st grade I went to Watkins Elementary. During that time I received my first basketball hoop for Christmas from my grandfather. Thats when I developed my love for the game. I started to go this basketball program called Capitol Hill basketball. It wasn't an intense league but I learned the basics there. I went for 3 winters. I graduated from Watkins in 2002. I went on to Stuart-Hobson Middle School. I played for the JV basketball team in 6th grade. It was a terrible experience. The coach was arrogant. He never played me and never tried to help me improve. So the following year I was going to try out for varsity under a different coach. But he didn't let me because what my physical said; even though the doctor said I could play. So I began to play basketball everyday with my friends at recess. Became pretty good by that. In 8th grade I returned to Capitol Hill Basketball. Became a dominant force in the league. In 2 separate games I pulled down 18 rebounds and and scored 20 points in the last game. Graduated from Stuart in 2006. In the summer my mom suggested for me to go to a private school in Maryland called the Barrie School that her friend's sons went to. I was not up to it at first, but then I decided "what the hell." I began to practice with the school's basketball team during that summer. It was a good experience before I went. During my Freshman year I didn't get many minutes, but unlike my Stuart-Hobson coach, this coach helped me. I may not return to the Barrie School for my Sophomore year because my mom may not be able to come up with money for the tuition worth over $20,000 a year. But I hope I do return......
oo much, but here it goes.I was born in 1993 on July 27th in Dallas, Texas. I have one older brother who is going to be a Senior this upcoming school year. My parents were both in the 40's when they had me so my dad is already retired. Anyways, right after my first birthday we moved to Arvada, Colorado because my parents both got offered a job at a place called Rockey Flats (which is now completely shut down).I went to preschool at the worst place ever if I remember right. I used to always be sent to the office, one time for telling a kid to shut up, another time for punching a kid in the face.I then moved on to West Woods Elementary. I had settled down and stopped getting in trouble from then on. My favorite teacher up to this date was my kindergarten/1st grade teacher. I got through West Woods pretty easily, and moved on to Drake Middle School which flew by and now I am going into high school this upcoming year.As for hardships in my life, nothing to bad, but all of my grandparents are dead. That makes for 3 funerals I have gone to remembering 2 of them. My uncle died before I was born basically because he was a drug addict and alcoholic. He fought in Vietnam and was injured and put him on drugs and got addicted to them ever sense. Also my cousin has a disease called MS which is really hard to go through. Nothing too bad for me so far.My family isn't rich, but we are probably upper middle class. We live in a nice neighborhood, barely any crime (besides this burger king robbery two nights ago where someone was shot to death). My parents both worked in the government, one still does for MMS which deals with oil.My social life is good. I have some really good friends, yet I don't hang out with them every single night which I like. I can't be with anybody besides my family for more than a day or else I just get so sick of them.As for my future, I have no clue what I want to do career wise, and for college I just want to go to a school with good sports. By the end of HS though, that could all change.Luke's life told over the internet.
I was born in 1987, in a little town in Menasha, WI. I live on an island there. Both my grandparents died before I was born, my dad worked 100 hours in a paper mill to keep our family afloat, my mom stayed home with us, when I got older my mom went to school to become a nurse. When my mom became a nurse my dad retired. Played soccer and baseball when I was young. Loved following the NBA/NFL since I was 7. Was big Bulls fan growing up. I have a young brother who just graduated HS. Everyone knows my college thing/police thing.
