AU1 112-1 Essay/Presentation 6: My Self Introduction
Hi! My name is Thomas and I was born on an indian reservation in Okarche Oklahoma during the last years of what is called the Baby boomer generation . As a child, my life was not so wonderful . My mother and father had 6 children and when I was 7, my dad decided that he didn’t want to be a dad any more. Yea, we were poor, so poor that I sometimes had to eat peanut butter4 for dinner and didn’t see my mom nearly as much as I would have liked to. She seemed always to be working or driving my other brothers and sisters to gymnastics practice. Nevertheless, she was an awesome mom. At the age of 14, I somehow got into a private high school and that’s when my life began to change for the better. With role models and a structured environment, I realized that I was not only very athletic, but also very intelligent. When I graduated high school, I was first in my class. From there, I began to travel and I eventually settled in Taiwan. Although I do not have a huge amount of ...