"Michael is his Name; Auto-motive is the Plan" by Che'Myra Fields

Michael smith is a 22 year old African- American student. He was a born on April 17, 1992. He grew up on the north-side of town in O' Fallon park. He quickly learned that a lot of people in the neighbor hood were not good examples for him. He grew up hanging with the wrong crowd which he felt "kept me in trouble." Shy and reserved are what you would think when you first meet him. He likes to observe first. Then he opens up more once you are around him for sometime. He took an interest to cars at the tender age of 8.

After all, he "grew up around people who worked on cars. Being exposed to auto- motives at such a young age made him want to learn to fix things. Even if just around the house. If it was something that was hands-on or fixing things, he found an interest. He enjoyed helping people by helping them run errands or just lending a hand. When he was younger he found himself interested in tattoos. He has now grown out of that. While in that stage he got 9 or 10 tattoos. He no longer has an interest in them. He also liked watching the show Bananas in Pajamas. Now he doesn't like watching T.V. that often, he rathers spend time with his children.

By the way, he has two daughters that he and his mother take care of together. He also has 2 sisters and a brother as well. He enjoys spending time with his children. he enjoys taking them places. He admires his "kids' grand-daddy.” He has two daughter one at the age of 2 and another daughter which is 3 years old. He choose to attend forest park community college to pursue getting a degree in auto- motives. He likes doing things with his hands so I believe auto- motive is a good idea for him.

In addition to working on cars he also likes to build and paint houses. Once he obtains his degree he wishes to open run and maintain his own auto- motive shop. That is his main goal but, he likes to do things that are very much so hands on. That is something me and him have in common. I as well am a very hands-on person. He likes to start new projects quite often that involve him working with his hands. Both of our majors urge us to do hands-on work.

Since he is a hands-on person I find it very interesting that he likes to help people, I as well like helping people. But he likes to help people even if it leaves him with nothing. When he help people it makes him feel as if hes helping in one way or another. He also likes meeting new people. Even though he comes off shy and reserved he likes meeting people and learning things about them. Hes a outdoors person he spends a lot of time outside and doing things with his family.