Wrong Class Oops.

Entering the 5th grade I was excited because the same class as my cousin after 5 years of schooling together. We entered the class together and sat down for a roll on the carpet that every elementary teacher had with numbers, shapes, and letters. Mrs. Reza plays the role, Jarett, Arthur, Christopher, Tyler, Andrew… She continues naming everyone else. Everyone but me. I raised my hand and asked, you didn’t call my name? What’s your name? Mrs. Reza responds. I told her my name and she said I was in the wrong class and the class I was actually in was the one right beside hers. We walk together and I stand at the doorway looking at a short scary Asian lady. As I stood in the doorway she welcomed me in, sat me down, and continued talking about her banking system. Who would know that this class would be my hell?

Ticking Time bomb 

When I was younger I would grab things and shove them straight into my mouth, licking all the little bits and pieces of Skylanders, Legos, coins, and even scissors. Leave me alone for more than a minute. A calm blue sky would completely switch to a category 4 hurricane. On my shoulders sat a devil on the left and then another devil on the right. So no matter my decision it was always the worst of the worst. Swallow a penny or swallow a quarter? What about both?! I was always that kid that no one wanted to invite. My parents had to stop going over to their friends house because of me, no matter how much I was disciplined I was always a little devil. A little devil that no one wanted to hang out with, I was always a bomb and no one ever knew when I was going to blow up.

Stargazing

Looking up at the stars in the mountains during my outdoor science camp felt like nothing to me. I never really found out why people find stargazing so fun. Just looking up at the sky and staring at little specks of light and making constellations by connecting dots in the sky. The funny thing is that they don’t even look like what they’re named, like Aries is a line. How do people get a goat out of that? When my supervisor showed us the stars everyone was left in awe, but I was in awe for a completely different reason. Stars suck.

Beep, Beep, BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP …

Barely waking up from my horrible schedule during my summer vacation, I hear a loud noise coming from my living room. I walk out from my room into the living room seeing my sister freaking out calling, 

“DAD! DAD! DAD! MOM! DAD’S NOT WAKING UP!” 

“WHAT HAPPENED?!” my mom asked with tears slowly dripping from her eyes.

“CALL 911”

Within minutes sirens come rushing towards my house, 5 built men come rushing through the door, and all I hear is, “CLEAR” bloop. “CLEAR” boop. “CLEAR” boop. “CLEAR” boop, boop, boop. My mom leaves with the men that came in saying she doesn’t know when she’s going to be home, but make I’ll make sure to tell you what happens.

9 hours later…

It was 10:00 p.m and both my sister and I came to the hospital in hearing that my dad had flatlined twice being transfered from the E.R. to the ICU. Hearing this made my knees weak, my world left in shatters. The doctor soon came to the waiting room where my whole family was, and said “We don’t know if he’s going to make it through the night, but we’ll do our best to make sure he makes it through.”

Before we left the hospital the doctors allowed me and my sister to go and visit my Dad. My dad a usually cheerful and energetic dude was lying there with tubes everywhere you look. We could barely move, and just seeing him sit on that chair and not seeing his smile just broke my heart, and tears started to fall before I even knew.

A Failed Acting Career

Walking with my parents through the everlasting maze that people call Costco, a random lady walked up to us and asked, “Do your kids want to be featured on Disney Channel?”

“Oh um… For what?” My mom responded.

“All your kids have to do is say the skippy peanut butter slogan, and they have a chance to be on Disney Channel.” The random person said smiling, and then handed us the paper.

I thought this was too good to be true, because there’s no way you say one sentence and then you get to be on Disney Channel. I mean it was DISNEY CHANNEL we’re talking about. As my sister and I were looking at the paper it said that the audition was in two weeks, that’s got to be enough time for us right? But knowing myself I wouldn’t remember the lines until a day before the audition. Finally the audition day arrived, it was at a nearby hotel/bar across the street from where that lady gave us the paper. And as we started to enter the place we saw hundreds of people lining up to go on stage. But being a 5 year old boy who can barely keep a conversation with my grandparents I got chills up my spine and started to cry.

“ I DON’T WANNA DO THIS MOMMMM!” I started whining.

“How about if you do this I’ll get you any 2 skylanders you want?” My mom negotiated.

I started to think about it and it was a win for me than it was for her, but then I have to go up on that stage and talk in front of people I don’t know so who’s really winning. I ended up chickening out along with my sister and in the next couple of weeks I was watching Austin and Ally and the kid I saw on stage before we left was talking to my favorite character on TV.