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Emelin Cruz was a student of mine last year, and she routinely visits my room during lunch to hang out with the rest of us crazies who are in there. She is an avid reader, a huge Twilight and Vampire Diaries fan, a good student, and a good person. She was always a little round in the middle, but she joined Volleyball last year and has since been in better shape. Oh.. I should mention, she lost her mom when she was really young, and her dad is a single parent raising her and her siblings. Money is so tight for them that Emelin had to save for two years just to get herself 3 out of the 4 books in the Twilight series. She originally read them by checking them out of the library over and over again.
Anyway, she showed up in my room a few days ago bemoaning the fact that she probably wouldn't be able to play volleyball this year. I asked her why, and she said, "It's expensive to join the team." I asked her what cost so much, and she said, "Well, we need to pay $35 for the team sweater that has our name and number on it." I couldn't believe what I was hearing. She was basically considering not playing because she couldn't scrounge together $35 for a sweater.
Of course, I told her I would give it to her. No kid should sacrifice a sport they love and one that helps their physical fitness because of $35. Then I thought about what she gave me for my birthday: a handmade chain of blue paper rings all hand decorated with Twilight things. I was so moved again to think that she made it for me because she cared that much and didn't have any money to buy me something.
I love that kid.
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Emelin Cruz was a student of mine last year, and she routinely visits my room during lunch to hang out with the rest of us crazies who are in there. She is an avid reader, a huge Twilight and Vampire Diaries fan, a good student, and a good person. She was always a little round in the middle, but she joined Volleyball last year and has since been in better shape. Oh.. I should mention, she lost her mom when she was really young, and her dad is a single parent raising her and her siblings. Money is so tight for them that Emelin had to save for two years just to get herself 3 out of the 4 books in the Twilight series. She originally read them by checking them out of the library over and over again.
Anyway, she showed up in my room a few days ago bemoaning the fact that she probably wouldn't be able to play volleyball this year. I asked her why, and she said, "It's expensive to join the team." I asked her what cost so much, and she said, "Well, we need to pay $35 for the team sweater that has our name and number on it." I couldn't believe what I was hearing. She was basically considering not playing because she couldn't scrounge together $35 for a sweater.
Of course, I told her I would give it to her. No kid should sacrifice a sport they love and one that helps their physical fitness because of $35. Then I thought about what she gave me for my birthday: a handmade chain of blue paper rings all hand decorated with Twilight things. I was so moved again to think that she made it for me because she cared that much and didn't have any money to buy me something.
I love that kid.
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