Journal Entry #1

So in class today Prof Satkoski told us to write something about our lives that is interesting. At first I couldn't really think of any stories in my life that someone else would consider interesting. But then I started thinking of when my dad about broke my nose completely off my face. Other people might find this interesting...

When I was 4 years old my dad broke my nose. I don't remember anything from that day and only a little bit from the next day. I've heard the story over and over again though. My dad was practicing his golf swing in the house (don't ask me why) and I was too, right behind him. I hit my golf ball right past his right leg. When I crawled past him (I guess I couldn't walk yet) he was coming down on his downswing. The club connected right on my nose and almost broke it completely off my face, it was just hanging there by skin. I was bleeding so bad my mom had to put me in the sink until the ambulance came. I must have lost a lot of blood. The only thing I remember from the next day is leaving the hospital with a band aid-like cast on my nose, going to Burger King on the way home and getting a Lion King happy meal toy. I still get nose bleeds all the time to this day and have a big crack in the bone of my nose. I also get really bad headaches every once and awhile but I don't know if that has anything to do with my nose being broken at one point.

Other than this incident I don't think any other notable things have happened to me. I haven't broken any other bones and haven't had surgery besides getting my wisdom teeth taken out.

As for helping out my community, I have done quite a bit of community service at the YMCA helping out children that were staying there while their parents were at work. I was in the IB program at Fort Myers High School until my junior year, so I had to do a bit of community service hours and I decided I'd enjoy working with little kids the best. I love little kids. My main jobs were setting up games for the kids to play, such as basketball, kickball, and dodge ball. Before they were allowed to go outside and play though they had to finish their homework, which was another one of my jobs, helping them with their homework. I consider this a decent contribution to the community and I can't wait to do more through the Malaria Project and the 5k race we have planned. With the 5k we plan on charging 15 dollars to enter the race, the fee will include the Malaria Project t-shirt. This will hopefully spread the awareness of the problem with malaria over in Africa. All the money earned is going to go to the Malaria Project, with provides families over in Africa with nets to help keep out the malaria infested mosquitos. We also plan on passing out flyers around town. I will probably be taking some to my job at Gap Outlet down by Sanibel and be passing around the information to the tourists and locals alike to help spread awareness. Hopefully this will help the word get out and spread as fast as Malaria does in Africa, and then we can all do something to help this problem get solved.