Two days ago, an inspirational speaker named Kevin Laue came to our school and gave a speech to 4th-7th graders in the auditorium. Kevin is special because he only have 1 arm and a half. He is born on April 13, 1990, now he is 25 years old, his height is 6ft 11. He is an awesome basketball player. His dad is a race car driver. His parents divorced when he was 4 years old. Then, when he was 10, his dad died of cancer.

Kevin told us many stories about himself, but also, he told us lots of advice like: “Like the way you are”, “Don’t ever give up on anything”, “Work Hard”, “Don’t make excuses”, “Face the problem”, “I matter”, and “Believe in yourself”. These are lots and lots of fantastic advice.

Those advice could help me. For example, “Don’t ever give up”. It could help me through my school years, or even my whole life! Now, I’m practicing my piano for the piano contest in July. THe song is really hard and I always don’t want to practice. THis time, I could really use this advice. Another example is, “Like the way you are”. In school people are always gossiping and sometimes about people’s looks. When someone talks about the person’s looks, that person would feel really bad. but you just need to “Like the way you are”. Or, I am going to middle school next year. Of course, middle schoolers always thinks about looks, your appearance. People might think that they are different, and they hate themselves. But you are important, and that includes the “I matter” advice and have to “Like the way you are”.

I really think Kevin is positive. Even though he lost an arm, he still want to make his dream come true, and he did. He is now a basketball player. He is really popular and he changes people’s lives too. I really appreciate him to come to our school, or new auditorium and be the first important Inspiration Speaker. I would like to hear him talk again.

Here is the trailer of the movie Long Shot, which is talking about Kevin’s life:

In class, we wrote an essay about Island of the blue Dolphins. I chose to write about how Karana, the main character of the book, grow throughout the book.
Here is the book cover:

Here is my essay:

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, is a book based on a true story; however, O’Dell used his imaginations to create details. The book shows how Karana grows during different times.

Before the Aleuts came, Karana had jobs. She has a dad, Chief Chowig, the leader of the tribe, has an older sister, Ulape, and a younger brother, Ramo. They had no mom. Karana was still 12 years old then. They were all living happily until the Aleuts came….

After the Aleuts came, people died. They died because they had a battle. No family has not lost a father, husband, son, or brother. Karana, Ulape, and Ramo lost their father. Then the next leader of the tribe, Kimki, went to find a new land. When the ship came to pick them up to go to the land Kemki has found, Ramo was left on the island. Karana jumped into the water and swam towards the shore. They lived there for a few days, until Ramo got killed by a pack of wild dogs.

Karana lived alone on the island for about 18 years. Then, she was about 30 years old. During this time she tamed animals and she had a lot of animal here to hunt sea otters. She did not know what happen to her tribe until they told her that the ship sank. They brought her to Santa Barbara, but she soon died of a disease that was not familiar to her body.

I think Karana was really, really brave of living alone. I would not like to live alone and had lost my siblings and parents. I wish that she could have lived longer and know more about the world.

In class, we made a Powtoon video. The theme was “English First”. Here is my video I created about how a boy learn that English is important.