all about me

Dear Stephanie,

My name is Darrius Kevon Duncan. I was born Feb 27 1991, in a small city called Peoria. Peoria is about 3 hours away from Chicago IL, well known as the heart of Illinois. I was born to loving unmarried Tia Duncan and Kenneth Runion. When I was about 5 months old, my father had abandoned my mother and I to pursue a music career in Atlanta Georgia. He was the lead singer of a group that had a very promising future. Confused, alone, yet determined, my mother and I moved out of my grandmother’s house, to start our very own family of two.
From age three to twelve I was a member of the neighborhood house daycare/camp. Learning to play and to interact with children was never a hard task for me. Neighborhood house has helped me to develop an outgoing personality which had been beneficial to me all through grade school. My very first school was Franklin Edison.
I attended Franklin Edison from kinder-garden to the first grade. Although I don't remember much about those years I do remember that my kinder-garden teachers name was Mrs. Crosset, and my first grade teachers name was Mrs. Stewart. After those two years my mother and I had moved to a different area, after my little sister, Jayde Duncan, was born. I changed schools to continue my education at Tyng Primary School. In second grade I had Mrs. Brooks as a homeroom teacher. In third I had cargill, and in fourth I had Mrs. Jackson.
Middle school was a very exciting step for me, although the middle school that I was going to attend had low expectations for their students academically and morally, I still found myself being very excited. I had a tough time growing and coping with the students there. Blaine Sumner middle school was a very aggressive school. Constant fighting and trouble always found themselves conflicting with the students. In fifth grade I had Mr. Anton and in sixth grade I had Mrs. Behrens. Since trouble wasn't hard to run into and a lot of bad things were always coming my way, I auditioned for the preparatory school of the arts at Roosevelt magnet school, during their summer school period. I made it in! I felt my life was going to change for good, and it did!
My first day at Roosevelt magnet school was amazing. Students were actually there to learn and not fight. Everyone got along, and everyone was nice and very inviting to I, their new student. 7th grade was a complete blast. That's when I found out that I had musical interest, and better yet I actually had talent to pursue. In 7Th grade I had Mrs. Biddison, which was also the year that my mother got married and had my baby sister Trinity Duncan. I then took my two years of musical knowledge that I had gained, and auditioned for the preparatory school of the arts at Peoria high school. Peoria high school was a complete fashion show all four years. I had auditioned for and made almost all competitions for vocal music that were offered to me. It was my senior year that I decided not to continue my music that I had worked so hard to achieve, but to merely keep it a memory; for pleasure only. I had changed my dream major from music education to nursing, because all through school my favorite subject was human anatomy and biology and things that had to do with life science.
Now I am a student at Illinois Central College, seeking to find my true self and to complete my studies to pursue my career. All through my life I have worried and waited on being in college, and to say that I am doing college homework right now feels really good. Even if it is for a basic class at a 2 year college, it’s still a start. I am proud of the life that I have lived so far, and if it be Gods grace and mercy, I have greater things coming my way. That was just a little bit about me. I hope we both get to know each other a bit more as the semester progresses.

Your student,

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