-
Influential people:Mom
My mom has always been a very impactful person in my life because my dad worked in China and he was rarely home. She's the one I mainly talked to about my problems, and I would confide with her all the time. I still do as a matter of fact. -
Influential People: Dad
My dad tried to be in my life, but he works in China so he doesn't really understand. He's still my dad and he does his best to resonate with me. He influenced me by teaching me my homework when he was home during the weekends. -
Period: to
How Jacob came to be
-
Mom miscarriage
My mom was on some medication when my sister was about to be born. I was really excited to have a sister and when she was born, they found out she was dead. This influenced me that whole year because I was really sad. -
Uncle takes me to church
My uncle was already bringing my cousin to church, since I am pretty good friends with my cousin, I decided to go to church with him. -
Influential People: My Uncle
He was the first one to take me to church, even though my parents thought I was too young. He also took the time to talk to me -
Influential People: Winston
Winston is a friend who doesn't go to ICS. He actually motivated me to get serious about my studies. -
Influential People: Brother
We argue a lot and we also fight a lot but sometimes we have some moments where we are good to each other. Even though we have rough times we still care about each other. -
Influential People: Pastor Lau
He was the pastor of my first church and he was really nice to everyone. He took the time to talk to every one of us and did his best to tailor the sermon for us. I really liked him because he was very kind to everyone. -
Bullying
In my old school, I was actually bullied on the bus these older kids would pick on me and throw stuff at me. However, I got through it all and didn't get discouraged. -
First ICS camp
The first ICS camp is when I got to know about ICS and I got a spiritual journal. I kept it for a couple of months but eventually when I ran out of paper, i stopped doing spiritual journal -
Going to ICS
This was during 5th grade, I was still in a local school and I didn't listen to instructions so well so I came to ICS. -
Middle school starts
I finally got out of elementary, I had some bad influences, but I managed to get ahead of them. I had some new friends but they weren't very good influences either. -
Influential People: Henry
Henry is one of my friends at school. He might not be the best at times, but I still think he influenced me and introduced to me to video games. -
Influential People: Bosco
Bosco is a really cool guy, even though he came to school at 4th grade, I didn't meet him until 7th grade and he influenced me by helping me with my homework. -
Influential People: Pastor Eric
He is the pastor of Island ECC, Before, he was the youth pastor but he got the calling about God telling him to leave youth service and go talk at the adult sermons. I still think he is a very nice guy and he gets to know us better. He told me a lot about the bible and actually got me interested in the bible -
Introduction to video games
Henry introduced me to Video games when he first came to school. He would tell me about these games that we would then play together. -
Week Without Walls Malaysia
During this trip, I learned a lot about my fellow classmates and also got to know a few teachers better. It's a real shame that they left at the end of the year because I really liked them. -
Influential People: Mr. Prasad
Mr. Prasasd is my tribe teacher and even though he's got a lot of standards and rules, he still cares for his tribe and he really likes to get us to think about different things. -
Oxygen
Oxygen was one of those times when I actually opened up to my friends and opened up to someone older. I also learned a lot about upperclassmen and got to know my friends a lot better. This was also a time when I could really connect to people my age. -
High school starts
I ditched my middle school friends to make new ones, these were actually pretty helpful and nice. I decided to finally try for academics