Hi,
my name is Joelys. I am a strong person who has a positive mind, is honest,
brave, and most importantly, I am a person who is willing to risk anything to
help someone. I am really quiet on the outside, but if you look deep into my
eyes you will realize that I have a lot more to say. I am a person who likes to
write out my problems on paper so that I can very detailed and explain myself
in a way that you will understand. Once I'm in a quiet place or any place I
have paper, I will burst and write so much! This is who I am. So here is my
story, my true experience.
I still remember the day it
happened like it was yesterday. On December 2nd,2011 I was on Facebook like a
normal girl would be. I was on Facebook and my mom got a call from my aunt
saying that my cousin Danielle never came home. (Danielle was 13 years old when
this happened.) Her mom called my mom saying that she never came home and since
my cousin has a Facebook, they wanted me to see if she was online. Luckily she
was. Her mom called the police and they went to her house. Her mom called the
police because she was missing and they didn't have any contact with her
because none of them had a Facebook except for me.
The police came to her hosue. Her mom told me
that she was going to put a policeman on the phone so that I can speak with
him. He then asked me handful of questions. He said, "Is Danielle
online?" I said "Yes, she is online." He asked me to ask her
where she was. I did what I was told to do. Danielle then said, "I'm at a
friend's house. Why?" I then said,"Just wondering," so that she
wouldn't suspect anything. She said "Oh, alright." I then asked her
"Where? In the Bronx?" She said "Yup."
All of the questions I was
asking her were the questions the policeman was asking me to ask her. At one
point she read my message, but didn't answer it. But I remember that she told
me she had a boyfriend. I told the policeman that she had a boyfriend and I
figured that she was with him since she is always with him. Her boyfriend is
way older than her. He was 17 years old at the time. The policeman told me to
ask her. I did, and she was with her boyfriend, but she didnt tell me where. I
asked her again, "Are you in the Bronx?" She said, "Why do you
want to know?" I said "Because I'm worried about you!" Your mom
said that you haven't been home!" But then she got offline.
I told the policeman that and
he said he will track her and her boyfriend down. I was still on the phone with
the policeman. After about 20 minutes of giving him all of the information he needed,
they found her. I felt like I betrayed her because everything I told him were
the things she told me to keep a secret. But she never ran away from home; she
just never came home. She was missing for a long time. But then I realized it
was for her best, so I didn't think about it too much.
She went online 40 minutes
later. I told the police that and he said to tell her that the police are on
their way to where she and her boyfriend are. She got so scared and said
"WHAT? WHY?" I said, "Because you never came home and it's
already past midnight!" She said "OK, I'm going home right now, but
let me tell you this, how dare you betray me! You promised me you were never
going to tell anyone that I had a boyfriend and that I was always with him 24/7.
Don't ever speak to me again! I hate you!" Those were the last words she
said to me. I told the police that and he told me not to worry about it, that
because of me, I helped her. I felt like a saviour. But I guess she didn't feel
the same way.
When I arrived at her house,
everybody thanked and hugged me but she just sat there rolling her eyes at me.
The police were still there and they thanked me very much. Then we all sat
down, but not when she was around, and they each told me that I should never do
what she did because one day I might end up regretting it just like she did.
They said that, "Right now she is in big trouble and you, the person who
helped us find her, would hate it if you did the same like her. So please try
not to do that." Those were the last words they told me. Then I left. I
went to bed and just thought to myself, Did this just happen? Was this real?
Did I just have a huge discussion with a police officer? The answer to those
questions were yes, yes, and yes.
To overcome this difficult
situation, the TI pillar I used was integrity. Integrity is when you are honest
with a person and also with yourself. I used integrity because I had to tell a
lot of secrets in order to help my devious cousin. In the end, everything
turned out to be great. Danielle apologized to me and told me that she was
wrong in telling me that and that she was very sorry. I learned that being a
little bit of a whistle- blower is not such a bad thing. It helped me overcome the difficult situation I was in.
I did the right thing because if I never told the police officer all those
things, they would have never found her and her mom would never have known that
she was lying to her all along when she said she was going to a friend's house.
This story really happened to me and it will never leave my mind. I still
remember it like it was yesterday.
I really want to go to this
conference because I believe it will open doors for me. I also will have a
better chance at getting into the college of my dreams, Harvard. All of this
will help me because it would show that I attended important meetings, and that
I was chosen for a good reason. I would be an awesome person to represent Tech
International Charter School because I always set a great example at my school.
I am an honest person and I am not afraid to say the things that we are good at
and the things that we are not so good at in our school. I will tell other
students and teachers lots of information about our school such as types of
technology we use, our unique lunch program, how many students we have, what
the highest ANET test scores are, and much more. I really hope I get picked.
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