I believe grades aren’t the only entity that makes someone who they are. Students have a lot of qualifications that can’t be expressed through one application. Some circumstances or qualifications that are not reflected in my application are unique and make me who I am. For one, my background is much altered from your average American student, the activity’s I part takes in are not what your average teenager might do just for fun, the words my friends used to describe me are very accurate traits.
I am a 18 year old girl who was born December 2nd 1997 in Cairo Egypt. My father AJ Ajwain and my mother Abuk Ajak were both studying in Egypt when they had my brother and I. Both my parents are from South Sudan and are part of …show more content…
My idea for the Homeless drive started off by scrolling through Facebook and reading that the DC Metropolitan area has the 5th highest homeless population in the United States. I at that period being a 15year old girl with no job and very little money supposed What if my friends and I put some money together and buy stuff to give to the homeless? Homeless people really hit me hard because I feel like people always take their life for granted. There is a homeless person stereotype that all homeless people are lazy, rude, and only want money for drugs. That stereotype is wrong. Some homeless people are unable to work because of their disabilities, they have been neglected, or maybe even they’re veterans and went out to war and didn’t have somewhere to come back to. For my Help the Homeless drive my friends and I would go to local community centers and speak to the children. After our presentation we would give the children a worksheet and a flyer to take home to their parents, then set up a box in their community center, come back two weeks later, and donate what they brought into homeless people/shelters. The joy on their faces makes me want to continue doing this for as long as I