Title: If I could be anyone in the world for a day ...
Source: Topeka Capital-Journal
Date: October 27, 2000
Topic: Other
If I could be anyone in the world for a day, I would choose to be me. I would choose myself because I'm the only person I would like to be. I'm the only person I trust. I'm the only person who has the same features that I like, the same thoughts, the same feelings as I do. I would also like to be Aaron Carter because I love to sing. I also would love to go on tour like Aaron does. I would like to get my own album and to be on Nickelodeon. I would also be going to MTV, just to be Nick Carter's little brother.
I love to dance and to sing. I love to go and impress people with my singing. It gives me encouragement after a performance. After a rehearsal, I feel tingling chills go through my body. That is when I know I'm through with the performance.
I got started with singing and dancing in 1999. Mr. Mark Camacho was my music teacher from second grade through fifth grade. I have been in only one musical, but I've been in about 50 performances. I have made a lot of friends, from kindergartners through college-age kids. My best friend is Megan from Highland Park High School. My first musical was at Highland Park. It was last year around winter. The opening night, I was so ready. I had practiced for three months. We had practiced every day after school and sometime on Saturdays.
On the last night, I cried all through the performance. I didn't want it to be over. That night was special because my friend's aunt came from California to watch me. My favorite night was the first performance. It was with all the elementary school. I had almost 100 peers there and around 14 friends.
--- JON CUNNINGHAM, sixth-grader, Eisenhower Middle School
