Max

media type="custom" key="7575539"Max 309 11/17/10 =Jamal= = =

===I know this is strange, but I own a restaurant. Yes, I am only thirteen. It happened like this. My uncle owned this restaurant, so when he died, my parents inherited it. So, we moved here, to Cleveland. It was short after that when my parents died. It was in a car crash. I was eleven. I have owned the restaurant ever since. My restaurant is right near a community garden that folks are calling the "Gibb Street Garden". I get all my herbs from the garden. I am famous for my smoothies with fresh fruits from the garden.===

===At my restaurant, I try to get people to bond. I mostly try to connect people of different cultures. Most of the time, they turn into friends. Some times though, people refuse to sit together. That's when I came up with a plan.===

===Soccer is played in many countries, so I thought that was the best option. I was going to start a soccer league! I hoped that other people knew how to play, so we could play a big game. I started to ask people. I asked about 100 people. None of them said yes.===

===That night, one of the waiters named Travis asked me what was wrong. I told him about what happened and he gave me some advice. He said to never give up. It turned out to be the best advice I ever got.===

So, I did what he suggested and kept asking. I asked about 50 people, and 25 said yes. Perfect! That is enough for a small game. We have a field behind our restaurant. That is where we would play.
===The game was a huge hit! Just like I hoped for, many different cultures were involved in that game. I learned two lessons. The first is to never give up. I also learned how much one little kid can do to the world.===