Articles by StevenXiong

The celebration yesterday was really nice. I had a lot of fun seeing the mayor dance and seeing people Celebrate. I forgot Sign in and so I didn’t receive my certificate. The celebration made me proud I joined the Step-Up program this year and made me want to come back next year. The presentation was really nice and I had a lot of fun.

This Summer I had a lot of fun working with AMA through step-up. I learned a lot and worked with a lot of different types of topics. I experienced a lot a lot about how a working environment looks like. Some of the topics we talked about this year was about Obesity, body Image, love and relations, alcohol, marijuana, Beauty, and HIV/Aids. We talked about how much obesity has affect on the people in the US. We talked about how Body Image changes us and why it is really important to have confidence in your body. We talked about healthy relationships and we found ways to keep a healthy relationship. We talked about how alcohol has affected on teenagers. We talked about Marijuana and why people do it, We talked about how it effected peoples lives. We talked about Beauty and personal style, we talked about why you dress differently from others and why you choose your style. We talked about HIV/Aids, We talked about how important it is to have safe sex and about how HIV can affect you in many ways, We also took a HIV test. Those are the topics we talked about this summer.

The past few days I have learned a lot. We had some guest that came to talk to us about HIV, AIDS, STD, and How to have safe sex. We learned a lot about sex and how to put on condoms and how to stay healthy. A lot of the new things i learned is that if you are HIV positive you dont have to let anyone know. I also learned many different ways to prevent pregnancy. Today everyone took a HIV test. It was fun and I learned a lot the past few days.

I had a lot of fun on the past 2 days. On Thursday the boys went on a canoeing trip. We went to lake Calhoun and canoed to Cedar lake and ate lunch there. Some of the boys went swimming and some went fishing. I had a lot of fun and the weather was really good.

Today we had a guest come and talk to us about health and sexual actives and came to help and answer our questions. We learned about all kinds of Diseases and sicknesses. I learned about how they could spread and how easy it can be spread. We talked about different kinds of sex you can have and how it can cause HIV/AIDS or STDs. We learned about different types of birth control and ways to prevent pregnancy. Everyone learned how to put on a condom and how to use it properly.This is what I did for the past 2 days.

Peer pressure is when people pressure you to do something good or bad. The way I cope with peer pressure is by being myself and saying no the the bad things. I will not smoke to just look cool. Sometimes people will try to peer pressure you because they want you to have fun and some people don`t mean to peer pressure you either. You have to be careful about what you choose.

Drinking isn’t COOL, it makes you act like a FOOL.

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Only you can choose who you are

A group of teenage friends

drinking alcohol

in a basement

on a Friday night

They think its fun but doesnt know that they are killing themselves

Dangerous

Ruined

Intoxicated

Not safe

Killer

A teenager

Wasted and drunk

in a room with his friends

On a cold Saturday night

He Thinks its cool to be like is friends