ADD And Me

by Parker Nagtegaal

         Never give up

                       Unknown 

        Hard times can be lasting issue or they can pop out of no where, it doesn’t matter, you have to get through hard times. I have been dealing with ADD for my whole life. ADD stands for attention deficit disorder. This is something that causes me to have a hard time focusing and controlling myself. I blurt our in the middle of class and wouldn’t always make the best decisions. I had medication I could use but that makes me feel like someone else is controlling me. I get super quiet and I’m just not myself. I get fidgety and act nervous. This makes it even harder. A time that I wasn’t able to control myself (or rather I wasn’t thinking) was in seventh grade maths class I went up to the front of the class, crumbled up a piece of paper pretended I was playing basketball. I missed and disrupted the whole class. As well as sometimes being a distraction I am sometimes easily distracted. Sometimes in the middle of class I will space out and just think about something random. I will snap back ten minutes later and will understand nothing that just happened. This has gotten me into trouble with teachers and homework. With all of these things I have gotten stronger. I haven’t taken my medication in a month and a half. I have had to push myself to focus and be a responsible student. I have had to focus on thinking before I act and not spacing out. I have noticed a change in how I conduct myself in class off the medication. I am more focused, I rarely blurt out and I haven’t distracted the class. Everything that has happened to me proves that while you have to push yourself through hard times you will come out stronger.

ADD And Me

by Parker Nagtegaal

        Hard times can be lasting issue or they can pop out of no where, it doesn’t matter, you have to get through hard times. I have been dealing with ADD for my whole life. ADD stands for attention deficit disorder. This is something that causes me to have a hard time focusing and controlling myself. I blurt our in the middle of class and wouldn’t always make the best decisions. I had medication I could use but that makes me feel like someone else is controlling me. I get super quiet and I’m just not myself. I get fidgety and act nervous. This makes it even harder. A time that I wasn’t able to control myself (or rather I wasn’t thinking) was in seventh grade maths class I went up to the front of the class, crumbled up a piece of paper pretended I was playing basketball. I missed and disrupted the whole class. As well as sometimes being a distraction I am sometimes easily distracted. Sometimes in the middle of class I will space out and just think about something random. I will snap back ten minutes later and will understand nothing that just happened. This has gotten me into trouble with teachers and homework. With all of these things I have gotten stronger. I haven’t taken my medication in a month and a half. I have had to push myself to focus and be a responsible student. I have had to focus on thinking before I act and not spacing out. I have noticed a change in how I conduct myself in class off the medication. I am more focused, I rarely blurt out and I haven’t distracted the class. Everything that has happened to me proves that while you have to push yourself through hard times you will come out stronger.

A Third Person Sailing Essay

                     At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

 Robin Graham                 

          Parker Nagtegaal has been sailing for the whole summer now. He even works as a junior instructor for the C B groups of younger kids. Today will be his first time skippering in a regatta. He and his crew Gwen Lynch have been preparing for this sail since July, and today they will get to prove themselves. Both of them are new sailers in 420s a 15 foot sailboat (approximately) with a mainsail dand a jib. This summer they have been practicing together in these boats, the instructors say they’re getting to be a pretty good team. They’ve been racing in a boat named The Flying Dutchman. Parker Gwen and the rest of the team are at the ferry dock meeting Tiverton Yacht Club as they get off the ferry. The race starts at twelve the skippers meeting is at 11:00. After showing tiverton our small and humble yacht club the six CYC (Cuttyhunk Yacht Club) racers decide to go swimming before the race starts. It's a beautiful day the sun is beaming down like spotlight on Cuttyhunk island.  Time flies when you're having fun and as soon as they started to swim it's time to go. So they head of to the yacht club. The instructors explain the rules and Gwen and Parker grab a sail and get driven by the Jonas Brothers boat the the floating dock.

Curiosity and Adventure 

 “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

 -Helen Keller

    Tom loves to explore and go on adventures because he is curious about what is out there for him. He (like most young boys) wants to now what everything is. He wants to explore everything and go on adventurous escapades

“Tom turned a short curve, by-and-by, and exclaimed:
"My goodness, Huck, lookyhere!"

It was the treasure-box, sure enough, occupying a snug little cavern, along with an empty powder-keg, a couple of guns in leather cases, two or three pairs of old moccasins, a leather belt, and some other rubbish well soaked with the water-drip.” 
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             Parker Nagtegaal 

    Fenn school, 8th grade

                            Reflection On Tom Sawyer 

                            Tom The Life Of A Boy

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life
                                                 -Mark Twain

Being mischievous, exploring, discovery, as a kid I can say I like doing all of these things, so does Tom Sawyer. In The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Tom is a mischievous and relatable boy. He just wants to explore and have fun, but this sometimes gets him into trouble. Toms character was developed throughout the book and I ended up caring for him. Tom is Mischievous and just loves to do things he’s not aloud to. In one chapter Tom joins a group and is banned from drinking alcohol, smoking, and swearing. “that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.”-Tom Sawyer. Eventually he leaves this group and no longer feels the want to do these things. The author Mark Twain is trying to portry the life of a boy in The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer.