naseen1415's Blog

Dear reader,

This is Naseen Martin and I am now a freshman at Franklin Learning Center, but before I was in such a great school I was in a public neighborhood school, in the west Philadelphia region. In that school pressure was colossal, kids always wanted you to do something awful like break a window or fight some other kid. So it was pretty much a bad environment for learning and feeling safe. One day something happened that I thought would never happen, I got caught up in violence, here’s what happened. One day I was in music class sitting beside one of my few decent friends, the teachers rarely teaches in some classes so we were just hanging out basically, suddenly some kid walks up beside me and asks me would I play a game with him called pass the hit (a game were you pass a punch down a line of people) he told me the rules and I said ok hat ever so he sat next to my friend and punched him hard. My friend knew the game so he hit me, I hit him back and that’s when he punched the other guy really hard almost knocking him out of his seat. The guy bounced back up as if he was some kind of rubber material and began harshly beating my friend, so I grabbed the guy and pushed him of but he was still so angry he decided that I wasn’t trying to harm him but that didn’t stop my friend from hitting the guy in the head with a book. Well soon after the blow my teacher had enough and sent them to the office one by one. I felt guilty because I could have been smart and said know to such a silly and unnecessary game, but I did not so I got in the same almost the same amount of trouble they did but I learned from my mistakes in the past and is now using my high school life as fresh and good as possible.

From my point of view, as School District we can make sure the teachers are always teaching and we could try to make school work more interesting such as hands on work, as a student I really enjoy hands on work such as science projects I think little things like that could make a bad situation in Philadelphia a great impact in the nation.

Sincerely, Nansen Martin

Some people say when you age your former age just dissolves inside your present age depending on the situation your in at he moment. For example when your alone you sometimes feel sad, that’s your six year old self and like when your mad and you scream that’s your four year old self throwing a temper tantrum. Just like this one night I was all-alone in the house, my parents have gone off and left my older brother along to look after me but as usual he disappears out the door.

Anyway I was down stairs watching TV when I heard some bangs from upstairs, I was a little scared but I just shrugged it off, but as I kept hearing the noises I decided to investigate. I put a pot on my head and grabbed the broom and preceded up the stairs, I turn left to my vacant room off the house and heard the closet door inside being banged on, at this point I was terrified, but still I carried onward to open the door. I opened the door as fat as possible and bam, i spings this black ghost of some sort, i bursted out of the room down the steps and out the door. So at this point i was my three year old self outside in-front of my door crying my eyes out scared half to death.

I was out there for at least an hour before my parents came back. They kept asking me what was wrong, but i was so embarrassed  so i never told them they just srugged it of and proceedeed up the stairs to hang there coats up in the closet. As soon as they opened the door out came the ghost again my dad punched it right in the face and the black sheet came flying off it was my brother.

Naseen M.

“Son, they keep hitting me!…… the french man an the pole they were hitting me”

Reflection: i would have beat the men up or atleast tried.

Reaction:i was surprised to see he really didn’t care thats much.

“I cant go on ….. this is the end.”

Reflection:i would have been angry at my father’s lack of will

Reaction:I was scared and sad, because i thought his father would die

“Go back to your block. The germans are going to shoot you.”

Reflection:i would have ran back to the block a.s.a.p

Reaction:i was like, “you guys better listen to them.”