Dear reader, well I'm Brandon lara, I know you guys must've been expecting a poem or maybe even a haiku but you know.. I was never really to good at writing those but my English teachers always said I was good at writing about my past experiences and letting my heart out on the paper and that's what I'm gonna do for you. Lemme start all over so you really get me for who I am.. This is me.... 

Hi , I'm Brandon lara I'm 15 , I attend Jesse bethel high school in a town called Vallejo, California. I play baseball I'm the JV captain. Baseball is my life , I don't really know what I would do without it, I grew up playing it since I was four and over the years baseball really helped me throughout it... When I was four, my parents divorced but it tears me apart and breaks me down in years every time I think about it... Even now as I type this it hurts me.. I was 4 a little kid who lost their dad... I just started playing baseball and to have my single mom work two jobs just to keep me happy and give me what she never had was amazing but growing up now and relaizing what truly happened makes me even more greatful of my mom. I would see parents a loving couple.. Watch their child play and cheer them on, but sadly in my case I didn't have that.. </3 my mom was working and my dad was out of the picture.. I would see my teammates playing catch with their parents and I didn't have no one to play with... No one to be happy to see after school.. No one to talk to and ask about how my day was and not even a pat on the back to say" hey kiddo, it's okay just keep on going you'll do it" I was all alone most of my life . I never really had a good relationship with my parents anymore because of it.. I rarely see them and barely talk to them.. Out of the whole day I probably see them for 30 mintues of the day.  But fast forward to present day, I now have a little sister , Lei-Lani who's about the same age I was when all of my sadness started... And I'm starting to see how she's going through the same thing and I'm always gonna be there for her! I wanna pursue the medical field in pediatrics so I know and that all the children that I will watch will know.. That maybe their parents may not be there or maybe not even and friends but I want them to know I'll be there for them and I got their back and can be the one who says " hey kiddo, everything will be okay just keep pushing  you'll get there , nothing can stop you! " so with this scholarship money, I could use it to peruse my dreams of helping the children who don't have nothing really who didn't grow up with parents, who didn't grow up with that amazing childhood like others did and to most of all fix those broken hearts that those kids have that I had when I was four that's what I wanna do with that scholarship money and I know with that I can do it! I know I can and I will ! I'm gonna keep pushing myself to do it and become a pediatric doctor no matter what and keep perusing because it's what's i do am it's who I am! I will do it and I will succeed !