Kassandra

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Kassandra Rodriguez November 17, 2010 HR # 219 Seedfolks final Raft

Chapter: Mariah
====I __was not always the best person in my family. Sometimes I would steal or charge people for walking by me. My family was a poor family. We barely had money. Sitting here in this jail cell I wonder why I was not like the others. I thought I would be the person to help my family. The security gard from the jail came up to me and asked me if I wanted to be here. "I do not but I have to because if the bad things I did__".====

====He said I could be stuck in this jail cell for over 1 more year or, I could be apart of community service. It was close to the middle of the spring, I herd. I had that crazy voice in my head to run and rob a place once I got out here. I got to what the gard said "community service" I learned how to plant, plants mostly tomatoes. I already knew that, because I come from a Italian family from Calabria, Italy. I have only been there for 3 years, then moved to the U.S. that I do not like.====

====I did not want to plant plants because I had no friends to talk too, and normally I do. I was by myself for most of the time. Finally a guy walks by me and asks if I need help. I said "No thank you, but thank you". We chatted for awhile, and I told him this was not my garden, and why I was in jail. He told me his name and I told him mine. Amir was his name. He told that he planted this garden for an old friend of his, named Lateesha. He was her BEST friend.====

I told him I wanted to run and rob a place right about now. (I just think like that). I never wanted to become a criminal. Amir said "You are never a criminal because there is more people who have done worse". He was really telling me I could do better, and once I get out of jail (after summer is over) I can get my life back on track. The next day I got to the garden a little early, and so many people are starting to plant again.

I __thought to my self I can get my life back on track. That fall I was out of jail, and Amir let me stay at his house for a little bit. He helped me get my life together. Amir was the best person in the world to me. I got a brand new job and a apartment thanks all to amir.__