Think Before Speak

When I was about at eighth, I used to be a hyper active kid. I couldn't sit in a chair and eat like normal any longer in fifteen-minutes during eating time unless I had some thing I can play with while I was eating, or I refused to eat. Because of that, I could hardly stayed focus during study, did homework, but I was best at subject which involved movement, PE. One day, Duong(my friend)glanced at me and asked during lunch break at our elementary school
"Hey Vu, could you swim or not?"
" Yes, of course I can, why not?"
Replied no would embarrassed me. Because during Health class, our teacher asked us to raise our hand if we know how to swim, then most of my class raised their hands, except me. So I wouldn't say no.
"Awesome, then our whole class know how to swim, then let's come to my house and
swim at Saturday evening guys."
I felt curious though, because I thought that the swimming pool in my classmate's house was small, circle, and only fit few peoples, that would look like the same as the plastic swimming pool that was in my neighbor's backyard. How come my friend invited whole class to come there and swim? That so weird and strange.
Saturday was coming, when I came to Duong house (his house was one mile away from my house, and it was huge) I felt shock and nervous. Because the pool was much bigger than I thought, it was fifteen meters length and four meters width, and there were almost my whole class filled inside the swimming pool with different style of swimming, freestyle, chest stroke, or even butterfly, those kids were so talented. Duong came toward me and drag my hand with his wet hands.
"Yo Vu, Let's swim and show me what you got"
"Alright, but let me change my suit" I distressed my voice
In a Change Suite room, my body was silvering, shaking, WHY, WHY, WHY, and WHY? I didn't tell my peer I didn't know how to swim earlier. After changed my suit, I walked toward the swimming pool and I felt the energy inside my heart that I could do it, show Duong what I got. I didn't want to be a "joker" in front of my peers at that time. Then I jumped to a swimming pool and I felt very cool water through my skin during a hot and humid season. The swimming waters were not deep, just about my neck. Then Duong said,
"Ok Vu, let's swim with me"
I didn't know how to swim at that time , but I was going to try my best. He swam 'till the other edge of the pool with a fast speed by used back stroke. My eyes got wide and I had no choice, swim. I started to copy other, and it was hard, then my ability to swim was no more. I stop at the middle of the pool, but my leg couldn't reach the pool's floor, the waters were just about my neck, but how come it was so high at the middle of the pool. I started to nervous, moved freely but I couldn't rise my head above water level and yelled help. Unfortunately, because I wasn't warm up before swim, legs were started taken with a cramp, it was very hurt. I couldn't move my legs, but my hands were still moved freely because I was so nervous, so waters entered my ears, through my mouth and I'm sure that I drank a lot swimming pool waters. I could felt my eyes, and lungs were burning because no oxygen, it was like I had tortured by the waters. I could only see deep blue in my eyes, I was started to drowning . Later some one dragged my arm and took me ashore. When I ashore, my lungs and eyes were started to feel comfortable with air inside, and I saw all of my peers were looking at me with curious eyes, Duong was the one who saved me from drowning.
" Hey Vu! If you don't know how to swim, then you shouldn't come here"
One of my peer said, and everyone else laughed at me
I realized that there were a big concave hole at the middle of the pool, it were pretty deep with me at that time ( about one meter and sixty seven centimeters depth)
From that day, I felt I'm not hyperactive kid anymore, because I felt I just like a loser and a "joker" in front of my peers. I started to cautious and think before I make a decision to say or do something, I don't want everybody laugh at me one more time, and that changed my personality 'till now. That was my lesson for not think before speak.

Flowers for Algernon (question 9, Connect)

I think that people who dislike others who are different from them are mean, they’re insult other, and they discriminated to others who aren’t like them. First, People who are different from them are mean. Because in the story, characters Joe, Frank, George, Amos Borge were picked on Charlie and told mean joke to Charlie. Examples, when Ernie lost a package, Amos Borge used Charlie’s name to yell at Ernie. (…for god sake what are you trying to be a Charlie Gordon… pg 60.) or “Frank Reilly said what did you do Charlie forget your key and open your door the hard way” pg 60 .Second, they are disrespect others who are not like them. Because Joe Carp said Charlie should show the girls how he mop out the toilet in the factory and Charlie did, he showed them and everyone laughed. So Joe Carp was insulted Charlie in front of a public, he disrespected Charlie. Third, they discriminated to others who aren’t like them. Because after the operation, Charlie started to change his IQ numbers, eight hundred and forty worker wanted to get rid of Charlie out of Donnegan’s Plastic Box Company. Why? Because Charlie was smarter than before and they hated it, they didn’t want a clumsy, dumb guy smarter than them, so they discriminated him and want to get rid of him out of their company. So the people who dislike others are different from them others are un-nice, mean, disrespect, insulted, and discriminate.