The simplest but yet the most inspiring quote I’ve heard. It’s not something that most people will use as a quote to live by, but I’m not most people. I lived through my sister getting sick, my parents’ divorce, and through my grandma getting breast cancer but I took from those experiences and just kept swimming. Not only that but I’ve passed a test that I was struggling to understand the subject, helping the under classmen the life of an Amesian, to hanging out with friend extremely late, and getting in trouble for not attending class. No matter what the experiences I had, I had to ‘just keep swimming’ and live life to the fullest and move forward. Even if life starts to suck or is filled with laughter you keep swimming and learn from those experiences.
So whoever is reading this, know that life will have its lows and its highs but always keep swimming and achieve your goals. Never stop or take a break because we all want to be somebody and go somewhere but we have to achieve it. So this is me, Miguel Zamora, a senior from the Academy of Mathematics, Engineering, and Science saying, “don’t give up, be who you want to be!”
Memory:
Mason Farnsworth, my best friend, and I were outside in the front of the school playing soccer. Of course putting best friends together it is bound for something bad to happen. Just using the main wall as a target we would practice our volleys, kicking the ball in mid-air, for perfection. Fatigue started to kick in our practice session and we began to be sloppy with our volleys. It was my turn and Mason sets me up for my volley and I stepped into the ball and it hit my shin. It would have been fine if I leaned over the ball but instead I didn’t which called the ball to land on the roof.
At that moment we were upset that we kick our friend’s ball on the roof. So we were going to do whatever it takes to get the ball back. We knew how to jump onto the roof but we had to get three to four guys to make a “ladder” to get someone up there. Even though it was only the two of us we figured we could do it with Mason lean and lanky arms and my height we could. Then I position myself so he could jump onto my shoulders and I would lift him up. As soon as I lifted up Mason, who is actually a lot heavier then he looks, our freshman year math teacher, Mrs. J, came back from lunch and start to get mad. Telling us that out of all the students she figured it would be the both us doing something dumb. With a baffled face she ask, “Why don’t you ask the office to get the ball” and being us it never came to mind. Shortly after Mason and I went inside asking the front office lady, Nancy, to call the janitors to get our ball off the roof. Within ten minutes we got the ball back and realized that is was going to be our Ames Memory.
This experience is my Ames memory because of what had happen and who was in the story. To know that I would go to that extreme, with my best friend, just to get a soccer ball. Also that Mrs. J would make fun of us but at the same time care for us to stop and tell us we could have got hurt. This is the reason why it’s my memory and why I have a huge love for the school because of the faculty caring for us academically and personally.