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hallways to try to control it. I had a hard time making
friends. My seventh grade English teacher and my
seventh grade history teacher were probably two of
the best teachers that I had in my school career also.
The most humorous thing that happened was that
my seventh grade English teacher nicknamed her
husband, “Mickey-D” because he drove his car over
a bush at McDonald’s one time. That story fascinated
me. Every time I saw the man I would call him,
“Mickey-D” to his face. An interesting thing was that
my seventh grade history teacher’s husband was the
head football coach at Pulaski County High School.
She and I would talk sports every day in class. I always
loved going to every Cougar football game and every
Cougar basketball game and that is something that I
still love doing today.
One summer, my family took a Disney Cruise. They
knew that I had a fascination with Disney characters
and they thought that it would be something that I
would enjoy, but I felt like I was hostage on the cruise
ship. In my mind, I thought that I could wear shorts
and short sleeve shirts every day in the summer time.
There was a rule on the ship that I had to wear long
pants to dinner. It was the summer and I only liked
to wear shorts. One evening when they had that rule,
I was so angry and I wanted to jump in the water off
the ship. To this day, I only like to wear short sleeve
shirts with short pants and long sleeve shirts with
long pants, no mixing!
That summer my family took a vacation to Williams-
burg, Virginia. During the vacation, we went to an
amusement park called Bush Gardens. I rode a roller-