Gotta Get out of Here

Remsen 1

I would have to say Junior did not grow up under the best conditions. When you're one of the smartest kids in the school and your teacher tells you quote"you have to leave the reservation"unquote, you really have to sit back and look at your life and where its headed. Along with a teacher telling him to leave, the poor kid has only one friend on the reservation. I believe Junior had no choice but to leave and pursue his dreams. If only everyone could get the kind of advice he received from that teacher, I bet the world would have a lot more happy people.

Growing up in Anchorage from eighth grade on, I think I would have gone the wrong way with my life if I hadn't gotten out when I did. By the end of high school approximately ninety percent of my friends were doing drugs, many of them were into pot and cocaine. After graduating from high school, I worked in the construction field, insulating houses. Most companies of this type pay piece work, the more you get done the more you make. At this time in my life, it was like the commercial, the more coke you do, the more you get done, the more you make, the more coke you could buy. I was very fortunate to get out of there when I did, several of my old friends have since passed away from living an extremely hard life. But like Junior, I did not want that life and here I am.