Speech About My Best Friend

I’ve been taught since an early age to give one’s gratuity and appreciation for others, whether it be your sibling, parents, family members, or even a mere stranger. Although implemented into my brain, these traits quite never came into fruition beyond my imagination as I became branded with such characteristics: rude, selfish, disobedient, etc. Whenever I was given a gift of some sort, I seemed to have always struggled responding in the simplest of words, “thank you.” I have an older sibling, Phuc, who is three years older than I am. To me, he has been someone always by my side through the good and thick of times; because of that, I’ve viewed him as an important figure in my life -- someone I could look upon growing up. Despite all that he

As the years of elementary went on, I had soon found myself surrounded with many other classmates and being able to interact through such means as the annual spelling bee, end of the school year field-day, or even a casual game of handball. Here, I soon stumbled upon someone who would become my best friend, Brian, in the fields during lunch, and we would end up talking endlessly about our similar interests in basketball, Pokemon, and video games. However, relations were not always the most splendidly with my fellow classmates, for I was constantly bullied on many occasions prior. In many instances during outdoor class-activities, these people would often make me cry by calling me by many names; one name in particular that stood out because I was chubby and fat, “chubbycheeks”. My brother learned of these occurrences, sat me down, and told me to simply ignore them and continue to be the playful person I am, only then will they overtime accept me and slowly become my peers. It would not be long before I had befriended most of my classmates, making several best friends along the way. Nevertheless, this made me realized that without my brother’s early influence that I would have never become the jovial and enthusiastic person I envision myself to be today. Had it not been for his initial motives in introducing me to his friends that one lunch afternoon, I would

Here, we meet new people and companions who will possibly continue this exhilarating path beyond junior high and into high school. It was the month of May during 2011, when I had just experienced a near full year of junior high; whereas, my brother was finishing up tenth grade before being faced with the challenges behind junior year. We woke up 8 am as usual on a Sunday morning and began our normal daily routine of brushing our teeth then cleaning up the chores around the house. Not until after we concluded our bowls of cereal for breakfast, when we both came to a realization that today was Mother’s Day! Having not know what our mother would like, we ended up spending countless of hours scrolling through the online web in hopes of finding something of fascination. To our dismay, we were bummed out that nothing caught our eyes and both sunk heads down on the desk in despair. In a last ditch effort, we decided to take a walk to Target and possibly fetch some sort of last minute present before the sun went down. Despite the fact that we were unable to find a meaningful present for our mother, It came to me that the relentless hours spent chatting and searching for a Mother’s Day present truly bonded us. Even though I didn’t thank him for his cooperations and patience with me then, it was nonetheless a blissful moment that we can both share