MOSAIC: voices from Polson High School

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My Dream of the Future

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Everyone has their own idea of an “American Dream”.  There are many different dreams, but I would say mine is a typical one.  I don’t want to be remembered for who I was, but for what I did for other people.

I was born last in my family, making me the youngest.  I lived in California until I was four, then moved to Montana in 1995.  I started school in Dayton, Montana, until the fourth grade, when I went to Polson.  I am now a junior in Polson High School.

Now that I am getting older I am planning my future.  I see myself going to college and becoming an Elementary Teacher.  I have worked with kids my whole life. I used to work at a day care.  On Thursday, November 1st, I went down to Cherry Valley to read to a few Kindergartners.  I watched their teacher work with them and interact with them too.  This made me want to become a teacher even more.  I might not use my teachers degree for long but for the time I a not married I will use it.  At first I was not sure I wanted to go to college.  I thought it would be a waste of money to go get a degree and then not use it.  My mom told me about a friend of hers that thought the same way and she didn’t go to college and her husband ended up dieing.  Leaving her with no money and no way to support her family.  That is why I am chosing to go to college, in case the unexpected happens.

I will get marred after college.  I don’t want to get married to soon because I want to travel and see the world.  I would like to go to New Zealand, to see where my mother was born and raised.  After being married for two or three years, I plan to have some kids. I am going to follow in my mother’s foot steps and become a stay at home mom.  My parents have raised me in a way that I think is right and even though people think you have to have money to be happy; I know that that is a lie.  I was raised with just enough money to get by and now and then a little extra, but that little extra money came from many hours of long hard work.

When my kids are grown up and have moved out of the house, I would like to start an animal shelter.  I have been an animal lover my whole life and I get tired of seeing animals being abused and neglected.  I will make it open to any animal that needs a home.  There is no reason that there should be an animal with no home. People my look at this and think she is dreaming, this could never happen but, if you want something that badly and put your mind to it you can achieve it.

I will also do research on how to cure diabetes, in my spare time.  My sister has had diabetes since she was four years old.  I want to give my sister a chance to live a life without having to worry about what she eats.  People need to realize there are so many other problems out there.  There is so much research for breast cancer that I think people forget about diabetes and other diseases.  It is time we make a stand for diabetes.  In my research on diabetes I will start a program that goes around the United States and inform them on what goes on with diabetes and how to help in finding a cure. 

I see myself in Montana when I am older, living on a farm full of horses and other animals.  I want to have a huge family reunion, full of family and close family friends from all over the world.  It will be a western theme, where anyone can ride and interact with the animals. I want my land to reach as far as the eye can see.  I want to be surrounded by the people and the land I love, that is where all my dreams lie.

There is not enough time in one’s life to do what I would like to do and achieve.  The only thing I hope for is when I die my research will go on and the animal shelter will still be here.  To all the people that I love will not cry when I am gone but rejoice because I have gone home to my Heavenly Father.  I hope to one day see the rest of my family and friends there too. 

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