2-03 Second-Year Boy

 

I have so many happy and sad memories of this year. First of all, something sad was that some of my friends had to transfer to other schools. If the earthquake hadn’t happened, they wouldn’t have had to go and we could have had good times together. However, I’m sure that we will be able to see each other someday, so I’ll work hard here at school now. There were happy moments, too. We were able to have many school events. I thought we wouldn’t be able to do things like the cultural festival, but I was really happy we could. We were able to play baseball too, which I’d thought we wouldn’t be able to do. I’m really into playing baseball, so I’m really happy we could. Finally, I found something I think is important for the future, which is having a dream and smiling through different situations. When people have a dream, they make a lot of effort if they want it to come true and it can come true, and I think it’s better having a dream than not having one. Also, if I keep in mind to smile, the people around me will smile, and I think it’s by smiling during tough times that we can overcome hardships. I have a goal. That goal is to never give up. I want to try many things, and I don’t ever want to give up because giving up would be the end. I want to do my best, and although there might be some difficult and painful times in the future like this disaster, at times like that I want to smile and try my best, and I want to keep trying new things without ever giving up.