Advice To My Peers

So throughout this entire six week program we have been getting advice from everybody we go to visit, whether it has been about career choice, college, or just taking your future seriously. I took all of this advice to heart. The advice that I took the most from is to do something that you will be happy to wake up and do every morning. Especially something that you would like to do for the rest of your life. Some advice I would give to other people is to participate in different programs. I think that everybody should explore all their options, step out of their comfort zone and experiment different things. If it is something you don't like let it go and don't go back to it. If it is something you enjoy do it again, find more programs related to it. Don't let the world pass you by experience the whole world and all the opportunities that you have. Realize that whatever you do should be something you love, so find the best thing out of everything you have explored.

My Final Words ☻

This 6-week program has come to an end. From an unknown beginning to a well-known ending the Turn It Up team has grew and bonded great new friendships. Even though there is a possibility that we may not talk to one another outside of this program , I'm thankful for spending the past 6 weeks with my fellow teammate. Having great boss-ladies (Danica *& Mary Ellen) we have learned many new things. With the new skill that we have learned from them and this program I hope that continue these skill and take them with us. This program has made me realize it never hurts to be different and to ALWAYS be yourself, because people will accept you for you if you believe it or not. We shared laughter, agreements and even had little arguments from time to time , we have learned how to agree to disagree in a respectful manner. If i could do this all over again i would. #I♥MY_TurnItUpTeam.

♦Don't ever think you cant accomplish anything above and beyond, the sky is the limit. In order for you to achieve it FIRST you must dream it. ♦

Never Give up and Never Give In

Over the past six weeks, we went to many different places and interviewed many different people on all different types of subjects. They all told us the same thing in their own words, "Do what you love". My advice to all the young people is not only to do what you love, but to strive for the best in life. We as young people often give in to the typical statistics too easily and forget that we are the future. There is nothing in this world that we are not capable of and although we are all different people with different personalites, we all should remember that the sky is the limit and to never give up on our dreams. There are going to be trials and tribulations in our lives but that's part of life. These obstacles are not difficult to overcome and when we do overcome them, it makes us so much stronger. Don't become part of the crowd, don't just give up and say you can't because the mind is a powerful thing and when you tell yourself that you can't then you will begin to believe that you can't. In the words of the ReadNex poetry squad "BE DIF'RENT" and in the words of Elissa Davidson and many others, do what you love because if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

ADVICE

Sometimes you can get caught up in different situations, but you have to not get yourself caught up in the hype. This is hard not to do because you have to do things to hang out with your friends, like where the same shoes or dress the same way but your true friends would except you for who you are no matter what. Also, stick in school because school is very important; no matter how many times you hear this it is true, very true. When you get into the work force it doesn't matter how much you make, from 10 dollars and hour to 7.50 and hour, but save your money. Yeah, you can spend a little but don't spend that much. It's all about how much you save, not how much you make, as my grandfather would say to me. Also, figure out out what you want do in your life, and make sure it is something you love.

Advice to the kids!

Many kids these days need a word of advice! For one thing kids these days, some may not get those special words like,"you can do it" or maybe a "do the best you can do! So kids don't get that push towards the positive side, which leads to the child going down the wrong path. My word advice is never give up, if you can't achieve what you want to do,still go out and do it. Find a way to achieve it in a different (POSITIVE) way. Don't let anyone tell you, you can't do it! Like Obama "YES WE CAN!" try hard. Don't let anyone stop you or anything, whether its through physical actions or mentally. If someone says your not smart enough to be a doctor, prove them wrong! Other than that: Be strong! Physically and mentally. Never give up!
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Advice 4 Us

I have learned many different thing thoughtout my life and some the best advice that I can give you is not to over think any situation. Overthinking a situation makes it way harder then it needs to be. If you take a second to breathe and calm down it will make your life easier. You know the answer but can't find it if you try to find every possible reason to think that your first guess maybe wrong. Just take a chance and calm down. Then you will see how easy you can solve a problem.

Suffering In Silence

I watched a video piece on Tuesday, August 9, 2011 about a guy name Emery Taylor that was living with AIDs. He explained to everyone that it wasn't as bad as everyone always makes it seem. The unique thing about Emery is that he has lived a very healthy life. He wasn't promiscuous like others may have been, he never did drugs or drank, and he was only with one person. He lived his life like a normal person for over 10 years (even though he had AIDs) because he hasn't gotten really sick. While I was watching the video, Emery said that there were young people that he went to church with when he was a teenager that had HIVs also but they didn't know because they ALL suffered in silence together. This quote was very compelling to me because all these teens had the same illness but couldn't speak about it. They felt like they had no one to talk to about it because they were going to be judged and treated differently. This is one of the causes of the spread of this disease. Everyone is afraid to speak and get judged or treated like a stranger so they don't speak it about it and since they refuse to speak about it, it gets spread to their partner or whoever. No one should feel as if they can not speak about what is going on. People tell them not to talk about it because they think that they're protecting them but they really don't know that they are hurting them. They're adding on to their silent pain and suffering, it's eating these individuals alive to know that they can not inform the world to stop them from going through what they went through. These people are not animals, they are humans who are dealing with an illness that they can not control and its only fair for them to be able to speak out and inform the world and get the same treatment as a person that is not positive. The world can not change if we all stay quiet and let everything stay the way they are.