ST. PETERSBURG - The 1998-99 school year at Academy Prep Center for Education in St. Petersburg, Florida was full of many activities. I met many new sponsors for our school. Academy Prep is a non-profit private school for middle school males. Our activities are always educational, full of fun and sponsored by many different supporters. At Academy Prep the students participate in many activities. Some of them include diving, basketball, sailing and swimming and attending baseball games, football games and plays. We even have a Boy Scout troop and have gone on a few camping trips.

During my first year at Academy Prep, I had the privilege to join with my classmates in participating in the African Dance Ensemble at the Mahaffee Theater. It was a great experience! At school we have an acrobatic teacher named Mr. Earnest Furblur, who teaches us how to ride unicycles, acrobatic wheels, juggling, spinning plates on sticks and tumbling. We even got the chance to display these skills in the Martin Luther King, Jr. parade this year.

During activity time at school we play baseball with our former history teacher, Mr. Stephen Ponzillo, shoot hoops with Mr. Jesse Williams, our basketball coach and science teacher, or go to South Heritage Nursing Home to visit with the elderly with our reading and speech teacher, Mr. Sidney Kirkpatrick. On some Fridays Mr. Kirkpatrick and four other students and I are taught scuba diving with Mr. Bob Williams. He teaches us the fundamentals of scuba diving. This year I was also encouraged to enter an oratorical contest for the Optimist Club and did very well in the presentation of my speech.

You see, if it were not for our sponsors, we would not be able to participate in all these activities. We thank our sponsors and supporters for enabling us to learn and have fun all at the same time.

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