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When I was asked some time ago to come here to speak to you, my first reaction was to say, “yes.” I said yes because I felt that I owed it to all of you as well as to myself. As I sat at my computer in front of a blank screen to write this speech the first thing that came to my mind was, what would I say? What do I have to offer to all of you? As I began to think, I took a look upon my life. Not only the past, but also the present and the future. As I looked at my past I saw that I, just as I’m sure many of you have lived a life full of new challenges. Each day, facing new obstacles that we could never let stand in our way. Since the early age of ten, I had to live my life in a foster home. Life at home did not work out with my biological mother. I cannot blame her for the way things turned out, because it could have happened to any family. As much as she tried she just couldn’t hold things together. My mother was unable to work but she always did her best to make ends meet. As time went on things got worse for my mother. No longer able to face her problems my mother turned to drugs. For her it was an escape, but for my sister and me, it was punishment, punishment for a crime we didn’t even commit.
Approximate Word count = 959
Approximate Pages = 3.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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