School You!!

Your average high school isn't for everybody, it sure wasn't for me. My sophmore year I was expelled from my school district and ended up dropping out. In high school I had a bad attitude, plenty of enemies, and you couldn't tell me anything!I felt all the females were a problem. They were messy and childish, so I solved my problems by using violence.(and between me and you I never lost a fight) I started working and I missed out on a lot of credits, so I was forced to go to continuation school. People think continuation school is for a bunch of misfits but little did I know continuation was the best thing that happened to me. I received my credits twice as fast and I only was in school for 3 hours, so I was able to work and do other things. The teachers were more down to earth and the students were more mature and independent. I loved it!! Unlike regular high schools the classes were small so I was able to really get to know my teachers and build relationships. I wasn't ashamed of graduating from a continuation, because if I were at a regular high school I would have never graduated period.

Who influenced your speech??

In general I believe that our speech is influenced by our peers and where we are from. Growing up I noticed different city's said different things, that's how I knew where people were from. It's funny to me how a generation can change their peers vocabulary, as if it were a fad. Honestly, we are with our peers more than 50% of the day. Since we are with our peers most of the time we tend to bond and relate easily. Which makes it easy to be influenced, period. Influenced to try drugs, play with guns, or just hustle. A majority of my friends talk the same and do the same things like smoke and drink. As humans we naturally rub off on each other or whoever we're affiliated with. For example, me and my best friend look completely opposite but sound exactly the same. We go bad on people the same way, we even find ourselves saying the same thing at the same time. I remember growing we had a (fake) hyphy movement and I think E-40 went on 106 and Park putting the Bay Area on the map. He was explaining and defining all of the different terminology we used such as "hypy", "that go stupid", and "yadadamean". Good thing the hyphy movement is DEAD and so is the terminology!