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This is My Life

Trevor Brown

7E1

Feb 28, 1986

J.H.S. 135

INTRODUCTION

"Hello!" I'm here to tell you about myself. I'll be telling you about things I like, and things I don't like. I'll also tell you about past achievements. After all of that you and I shall peer into my crystal ball and see what's in store for me in the future.

CREATIVE PAGE

My full name is Trevor XXXXX Brown. My father tells me he had nothing to do with naming me, he said my mother and her sisters did the naming. I was born in XXXXXXXX Hospital, although home was in Peekskill. That's upstate New York, in Westchester County. My father and mother's full names are Robert XXXXXX Brown and Mary XXXXX Brown.

Now you know a little about me, but don't turn the page yet I will now tell you about my earliest recollections of preschool. It was a great school, the teachers were polite and weren't disrespectful to the students who went to their school. The school was <adjacent to> a large white chapel, that was a church on Sunday. This church looked large from my size. It was fun when we went outside and played on the swings and sliding boards. Preschool was nice but that was a long time ago so lets move on to elementary school.

Uriah Hill Jr. Elementary was and still is a good school. This school has been around longer than you. I know it's at least 40 years old. I know this because my babysitter's son is 44 years old and he went to Uriah Hill too. I also made alot of friends at this school, because of different plays and music concerts.

C o n t . CREATIVE PAGE

This school didn't have many programs when I was there but they did have six computers and Day Camps during the summer. Every once and awhile the music teachers would get together and have a music programs or concert. These programs sometimes had something to do with the season or holidays. These concerts usually consisted of the school band whose players were in the fifth and six grades. The glee club was made up of the fifth and sixth grades and last but not least the 3rd and 4th grade chorus. These programs usually ran about two or three hours, and every time there was a big crowd.

When ever there was a play I tried to get the best part, but if I didn't get the best part I would get up on the stage and show off the character I was playing. This happened the time I played the caterpillar, when the 5th and 6th grades did "The Trial of Alice and Wonderland" from the book "Alice In Wonderland". I had to have six arms and show them off while I was dancing. It seemed like I did every dance step in the book, because that crowd was really cheering when I got through with my little dance. This night the school was nearly jammed with teenagers. These teenagers had come because they saw me in my costume. I had attracted a lot of attention.

I looked forward to spending the sixth grade at Uriah Hill because the Senior trip would be a visit to Boston, Massachusetts.

I didn't make it there because "Tragedy Struck!!!" My mother died!!! Shortly after that I moved to the Bronx and have attended three school's since being here They were Our Savior Lutheran School, P.S. 89, and now I am attending Whalen Junior High School.

THINGS I LIKE

I love acting. I like acting so much because I am so good at it. I keep a straight face, emphasize my words and put facial expressions where they're supposed to go. I just don't know why but Ive just got a knack for acting. I'm constantly being asked to act in different plays and skits. My most recent part was "A Visit from St. Nick " I really bought down the houses down with shaking my belly like a bowl full of jelly. I act a lot with the Video class I'm in at J.H.S. 135.

I have been very fortunate to have traveled extensively with my traveling partner. My first trip on plane was to Milwaukee, Wisconsin when I was 8 years old. I've also been abroad when I went to Europe I visited London, Paris, Brussel and Amsterdam.

When I see famous landmarks and historical places, it makes me proud to know that I was in that place in person.

In London I visited Madame Tussaud's Wax museum, Big Ben, and Stanford-Upon Avon. Stanford-Upon Avon was the birthplace of William Shakespeare. I also visited the house he was born in. As we were leaving England we boarded the ferry at the White Cliffs of Dover. We rode the ferry across the English Channel to France.

In Paris, the sights I saw were the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triophe, the Loure, which is the home of the Mona Lisa. At the Cathedral of Notre Dame I stood in the center of the city of Paris.

Brussel is famous for its' beautiful lace. I saw a lady weaving lace.

At Delft I saw how "Delft Blue pottery is made. The Manneken-Pis attracted a lot off attention.

Amsterdam is a city with about 160 canals and 1,000 bridges. At Anne Frank's house I went behind the bookcase and found the secrets of Anne Frank's world. There are not many windmills left in Holland.

I have also traveled a great deal here in the United States.

Things I Dislike

I dislike sleep-away camps. My reason for disliking camp so much is because the counselors "rough-up"" on the campers. They also read your letters.

I absolutely can't stand people smoking in my vicinity, especially when it's in my room. I've posted a no smoking sign on my room door and I dislike the fact that it 1s not respected. My schoolmates have told me that my clothes smell like cigarette smoke. That's one of the reasons why I dislike people smoking around me. I hope our mayor bans people from smoking in certain areas like I think they have done in New Jersey.

I think that my room is nice and neat, so why should I have to clean it up? My coats are on the rocking chair, my shorts are on the red chair, and my socks are on the floor. I known where everything is so why should I clean up and mess up that great filing system? Naturally, some people disagree with me that this is a good way to keep my room.

My Achievements

These are some of my achievements. I really don't think much about them because it took such little effort to get them. The Cub Scout badges were-like a piece of cake to get. I met the requirements for the Bob Cat badges after studying one night. Each Cub Scout had to get the Cub Scout and the Wolf badges. The Arrow Head badges took a little more effort to get because there were more of them than there were of the others. I earned all of them.

The Baseball medal that I got was no sweat at all, everybody got one even if their team was the number one loser or the number one winner.

Winning different places in the school's poster contest were fairly simple for me because I was one of the best artist in the school.

Another of my great achievement includes our quartet singing "Didn't It Rain" on the radio. My two brothers, my friend, and I made up the quartet. There were a couple of times I was on television singing with the Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church. Oh! I must tell you this. I was in the newspapers several times. Many times I was in the news because I won the school's poster contest. A fishing trip on a very hot day earned me the honor of having my picture in the newspaper.

Then there were other occasions when there were write-ups about me in the paper , all good.

Future

Another day another dollar, better get back to my Robotic Factory and see what my Vice has for me to approve. This part time lawyer and part time toy factory president isn't easy. With the stocks I bought in Cindy's Hair Shoppes and Isods money is really rolling in.

My grandmothers nursing home has a private spa, private swimming pool, and a private gym. She is living the good life. My kids visits her now and then. My! I've come a long way from Whalen Junior High School, Bronx High School of Science, and Harvard Law School.

[This paper I wrote in junior high school thirty-eight years ago is very insightful, this was only two years after I had found my mom dead and moved from my childhood city to the Bronx with my grandparents. Clearly there are things that are at the top of my memory that have long since faded. This is the one thing I love about having an archive of your life you can look back and recall details that have long eluded you.

My recollection of preschool was excellent, I was in the Head-start program, which was part day care and part school. This is prior to kindergarten meaning I was about four years old and I can still recall this sandbox table they had that I loved to play with, just the mention of the swings and slides took me outside the building behind the church. I thought our memories weren't as formed at this age, but I can recall my mom dropping me off and how I look forward to spending time there.

The details of the extra-curricular activities I was involved in is amazing! I used to always think due to my childhood trauma and subsequent depression, that I had forgotten a lot of my past but reading this I can see that that just isn't true, from my participation in the glee club, choir, and Cub Scouts I was extremely busy as a kid. I was also surprised at all the press I got in my city, which was more like a town, including singing on the radio!

I have to wonder how my seventh grade teacher felt about my extensive traveling not even having been a teenager for more than a year. I bet she hadn't even traveled as much as I did and she was a college-educated whyte woman.

The most surprising items were on my dislike list, I didn't realize that that summer camp was such a negative experience for me, clearly it was something I had strong feelings about. The only thing that I remember is that I didn't know how to bathe myself because my mom was a helicopter mom and bathed me way past the age where I should have probably been doing it on my own.

I had mildew in my luggage because I knew nothing about how to hang wet clothing to dry out. I have vague memories of playing dodge ball, the pool, the lunch hall and the bunk area. I wouldn't want to do summer camp again, which I never did. #FuckThoseMovies

My future choices were an interesting an amalgam of being an attorney and a toy creator its a perfect dream for my adulthood. Not that I am a fan of the law or anything, but I do love to debate and argue points, and toys are still very much a part of my life, I think it would have made a lot of sense for me to help create toys for children and the kids that never grown up.

There are clearly some omissions, my traveling partner was my grandmother, and even though I don't overtly mention her I do take her care into consideration nearly with art imitating life I was the one to care for her up unto her death at home, she was never put in any fantasy facilities or otherwise.

I also have kids. Now this can be an entire journal entry into itself, because I think at this age I was probably still wrestling with what society expects of you versus what you want to create for yourself. My life has turned out differently then I envisioned it as a child, but no less successful traveling a path that is less traveled and bucking what folks expect me to do versus what will make me happy.

Photos by Brown Estate]

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