Senior Paper
In the 17 short years of my life I have learned so much. Part of my learnings have taugh me to strive for more knowledge. Now I already know a lot about one career but I am not satisfied with just that. I hear that most people base there career descriptions on things that their family does for a living. My family has so many different jobs, so I can’t really base my career on just what people in my family do. The thing is we all have one thing in common. We like producing a finished product that turns heads and people like.
In my dads place, he pours concrete and has been for 20 plus years. My uncle Andy is an artist. He can turn a plain piece of wood into the most amazing piece of art he can think of. My uncle Mike has the same talent but years of drug and alcohol abuse has limited his ability to turn that into a career and make something of himself in the process. He is still amazing at what he does and I would go to him for any tattoo or what ever else over anybody in the world. My aunt Rosa works for ADT Security making peoples homes a safe place for the families living there. My grandpa works on RVs and he loves to travel with my grandma.
Right now I know how to pour concrete but the only time people get to see the work that I have done is if they just so happen to visit the place I poured at. Cars travel the county and sometimes even the world. My career goal is to restore and trick out old cars that look great and perform better. This way everyone can see my creations. So all in all my goal in life is to create a finish product that everyone likes and makes mans creations look like we actually care about what we own.
I am a hard working man that makes a living as an honest man. Right now I pour concrete and maintain the grounds at Canberra concrete pumping. My dad (Tony) owns his own concrete company called, Harrah’s Concrete. He has owned it for about 15 years now. I know that doesn’t sound like a very long time but it was long enough for me to watch the company boom and then bust. Concrete is very seasonal and depends so much on the housing market. If houses are being bought and sold a lot and populations keep growing then more houses need to be built.
All houses start with a concrete foundation so the concrete crew are always the first ones to work on it. Setting forms such as footer and walls to sidewalks and patios even basement floors and driveways. When it is time to pour its all hands on deck. We call the concrete mud when we pour because it is almost the same in that form. I guess you could say concrete is in my blood I have watched my dad set forms and pour all my life. My uncles do it and I’m sure more more people in my family have done it back some generations.
How it all started was on the days I didn’t have school I would go to work with my dad. At first I was the wash boy, washing all the tools as the crew was done with them and then check and make sure we had everything upon time to leave. I started mucking when I was strong enough. Some days my dad would be short handed and I would get in front of the rod (A metal 2*4 thats smoothes the concrete) with a rake flattening and leveling the slab. It wasn’t long though before I had a mag (a float) in my hand smoothing out the edges of the slab and using a bull float on the rest. The mag and bull float brings just enough cream to the surface to hid the gravel. It definitely takes a good eye to make the mud level and I remember having competitions with my uncle to see how close to flat and level we could get the mud before the rod. The rod was the tester and if we didn’t have to fill in a whole or take away from a mound then you got bragging rights and good eye sight is not to common in concrete.
My dad had a couple funny mexicans Balto and Mucher working for him that taught me how to Finish. My dad got lots of jobs from a subdivision that was growing called Iron Bridge. It took lots of practice and I was no good for the first few years. Finishing entails and making it all smooth or stamped if its inside and brume or stamped when its outside. Thats only one side of concrete, the other is setting the forms, Tying steal, and excavating. I am still the laborer which means I do all of the grunt work packing forms into a whole while my dad or someone else would set the form. They are all old farts and I get done lots faster and wind up helping them. Learning how to set forms and tie steel which really is not all that hard to do and I picked it up really quick. After about 3 summer breaks and days I had off school of running circles around the old guys I learned enough to be able to show up and not need any sense of direction from my dad or uncles. I knew what to do, we would park and I would jump out most of the time we would have a trailer and I would drop the trailer. Take off the straps and start prepping the forms while my dad would make his measurements and lay out the how they should go with a string line.
Prepping the forms is that extra step that is needed but no one likes doing, I have to clean dried up concrete off them and then douse one side with an oil that keeps the concrete from sticking to the form. Making stripping the forms after the mud is dry a whole lot easier. Then I pack the forms to where they are being set. I do this mostly with walls and those panels are so saturated in oil they way 3 times what they did as normal plywood. On days I pack panels I get all dirty from the oily forms and dust.
When pouring walls we start with a footer which is depending on the wall but normally about a foot and a half wide and a foot deep. The footer gets two pieces of rebar running through it and dowels sticking out the top so as we can tie the wall and footer together with the steal. Most of the time we start setting the walls the day after we pour the footers. We will set they outside of the wall by nailing a 2*4 to the footer with concrete nail at three quarters of an inch from the outside of the wall. This leaves enough room to nail the panels to the 2*4 having the outside the wall will end up on the inside of the panel. The next step is to tie steal which is rebar and we take sections and tie them to the dowels. then we button up. Pouring walls usually take a conveyor concrete truck or a pump truck. When the mud gets poured someone goes through with a vibrator to make the mud settle. Then someone smoothes the top of the wall and the job is done. We normally let the walls set for 24 to 48 hours before striping off the panels. Most concrete takes about 7 days to harden to the point you can drive on it or backfill the walls. The way to tell is that it is no longer the greenish color of the mud but a gray color.
After 7 years of working with concrete my knowledge of the trade is very brod but I never had to learn the businesses aspect of it. My dad always was the guy that took care of that. The company has 3 form trailer and a tool trailer. One of the trailers is staked with footer and flatwork forms, while one of the other ones has 4 foot panels, ties, and other stuff for small retainer walls. There is a goose neck trailer that has 10 foot panels and more stuff for walls. The stuff on the goose neck trailer is for basements and large retainer walls. In the tool trailer there are tools for setting forms and pouring along with finishing tools. The tool trailer is a decent sized boxvan trailer that goes with us to almost every job we get.
We have had jobs almost every where from Junction to Aspen to Eagle to even Meeker and every where in between. The biggest job we had was in Iron Bridge which is a high classed subdivision just south of Glenwood. We have poured lots of walls and slabs in Glenwood, the most resent in Glenwood was a slab for the Glenwood caverns where they where putting in a new maintenance shop. We have also done a stamped padio at a house not far from the school.
The Experience pouring concrete will help me move towards my true dream which is to restore cars. Again its about creating a great product. Working with my hands to make something beautiful whether its a concrete slab or restoring an old Comaro.
I really want to know how to restore cars, classic cars, pimp out some modern cars, and things that have never been done with them as well. In my opinion every car has to have a clean body. After taring down the vehicle I would fix all body and frame damage making it clean with strait lines and flowing curves. Owning a restoration business is my dream but I would have to have three shops for this. The first would be the tare down and inventory shop. There is would take apart the restoration project and and inventory all salvageable parts. Then the vehicle would go to the body and paint shop.
Now I don’t know to much about how to run a paint shop or the tools used in a paint and body shop so I interviewed Dave Malehorn, the owner of Professional Auto Body.
I first asked him, “How do you budget your auto shop?”
He say, “ I never really had to work within a budget, but I limit myself to certain permitters. I know how to make a profit when taking on a project. There is a mortgage and other bills that need to be paid so I need x amount of money for that. Just know what you need and know what you have to spend on that.”
I thought it was good advice but I know that I will have to have a budget when starting my business. Then I went on to ask, “How did you get started in the auto body industry.”
He told me how he started at a young age being a laborer kind of like I did in concrete. It took him a while to move up but after a few years he started working with metal and other things to straiten panels as well as other parts on a vehicle. “It was more of a trial and air experience learning how do certain things to bring the dent or damage back to a clean body panel.” He worked in a few body shops before he took on the job as owner of his company.
My next questions was, “What are your Job or positions that people have here at Professional Auto Body? As well as what kind of experience would they need.”
He replied, “I am the head manager, I take care of employment, getting my name out there and stuff related to that. There is my operations manager and she runs the business side of things. The operations manager needs a college degree. Then I have my office or production manager that makes sure bills are paid and parts are in. She also needs a college degree. The parts manager checks parts and makes sure there is no damage on them and makes the bill out for how ever much work is needed done. The parts manager also needs a college degree. I have a crew doing maintenance on the vehicle. The maintenance crew needs 4-8 years experience. Then there is my laborer that makes sure things are clean and other grunt work around the shop. My 3 body men take car of getting body panels and other parts back to a factory look. And the to painters prep and paint every piece that gets repaired. The body men need 4-8 years experience. Now one of my body men is a mechanic as well, he takes care of damage that goes past the body. Now my Crew does not go as fare as rebuilding engines and stuff, they just replace and or fix parts that are needed to make the vehicle run. Then I have 2 painters which clean and prep body panels for paint and paint them. I would also like to see the painter have 4-8 years of experience before I hire them.”
I went on to ask, “What is different when working with fiber glass as apposed to steel?”
He said, “Now I don’t work with fiber glass anymore, now there is this sheet molding compound and there are different kinds of the compound. The Compound breaks when stressed the wrong way as apposed to steel bending under stress.”
As the interview went on he took me into the back and showed me projects they where working on. I got to meet some of his employes along with see what they where doing at the time. I continued to ask, “How would I fix extensive damage that goes beyond the body?”
Dave said, “eventually the damage needs to be reversed. If the frame is bent then you would need to bend it back. If you cant bend the metal back then you would need to cut out and replace the damaged part.”
Dave took me into the paint area where I had the chance to ask a painter, “How would I paint a faded 2 tone?”
He said, “Atomize the paint and layer it from thick to thin. Atomizing the paint is when the paint mixes with the air to get a smooth lay out. To where you don’t get spots like out of a spray paint can but as if its a clean sheet of paint.”
The painter told me how I would go about painting which would start off with a primer or metal sealer. Then the base coat of paint is added topped by a clear sealer. They use an infer red lights to dry certain primers along with a IRT light for other primers. They mix all there paints by the weight and depending on the color and kind of paint depends on how much along with what gets added to the mixture.
The tools used in Professional Auto Body include dent pullers, hammers. For the 2 body only workers they have about 40,000 dollars wroth in tools which would be wrenches, screw drivers, sockets, and much more. For the guy that works on fixing and replacing parts has a lot more tools though, about 70,000 dollar in tools. He has tools like torch wrenches, an electrical meter, a timing gun and a whole lot more. There is a lift for alining vehicles, they have a lift for easier access to the under carriage. They have a portable lift just incase the main lift is in uses when there is car with a closely nearing deadline. The list of tools and equipment goes on to large ovens for drying paint to the computers they use to stuff that is used in the body end of the shop.
I want to work on more than just the body though. Suspension, Balance and Rim design would prove to be useful when building a classic that performs. Engine and transmission will bring the speed and gearing creates a smooth take off and brake. I picture cars being sexy and performs, it has to sound great not only under the hood but in the stereo. I could look at any car and have a design for it. I picture a 1968 Comaro SS with a 409 Chevy big block twin turbo with the top of the line NOS system. Painted Chevy orange with silver flake in the clear. Sitting on a set of 19” Foose rims raped in BF Good wrench tires. A stock car rear end, all around disk brakes and a top of the line suspension. A candy cherry red paint with black racing stripes and silver flake in the clear. The car will sparkle and glimmer in the sunlight. When I feel like cruising and listening to my music you will hear my two 18” subs from blocks and blocks away. The back seat will be replaced by a custom built fiberglass speaker box that is painted to match the car. A subs mounted behind both front seats, 6” speakers making a line right in between the subs and 6*9” inch speakers on the back edges of the box. Black racing bucket seats provide a comfortable place to sit for me and my one passenger. A custom fiber glass dash to match the speaker box in the back. And a velvety soft headliner with a design in it along with velvety soft carpet. This is my dream car that I have been dreaming about sense I seen classics on the road.
With every passing day life seems to get harder and harder to live. The economy is going down the drain and everyone is struggling to get by. I am going to learn a career that will always be there. Almost every one in the United States has a vehicle. All Vehicles will break down at one point or another. So I will always have work. More and more cars, trucks, SUVs and other kinds of Vehicles take to the road every single day. Not having work is not an option in the mechanical industry. On the other hand I already know a career and I will use my knowledge of that skill as a back up plan. Not only that but I will be able to work in that career right after high school to make the money to go to school for the career I want to learn so badly. After I take mechanics school I will start working in a shop. Make as much money as I can and then start my own shop restoring classic cars. Every single classic vehicle I restore will be unique and turn heads. That 1968 Comaro will be my first project and I will use it for advertisement to get other people to let me restore their classic. Every vehicle has a personality, my goal is to make that personality pop. So now you know you know what I know and my plans for the future. Now it is my turn to shine, to make my family proud, and make a great name for my self. It all starts with graduating high school which is coming up soon. May 25, 2012, the day cant come soon enough. I am so ready to start my life my way. Now I am going to end this with a, thanks for all your help and have a nice day.
Bibliography
Interview with Dave Malehorn
Interview with my uncle Andy Harrah
Interview with my dad Tony Harra
In the 17 short years of my life I have learned so much. Part of my learnings have taugh me to strive for more knowledge. Now I already know a lot about one career but I am not satisfied with just that. I hear that most people base there career descriptions on things that their family does for a living. My family has so many different jobs, so I can’t really base my career on just what people in my family do. The thing is we all have one thing in common. We like producing a finished product that turns heads and people like.
In my dads place, he pours concrete and has been for 20 plus years. My uncle Andy is an artist. He can turn a plain piece of wood into the most amazing piece of art he can think of. My uncle Mike has the same talent but years of drug and alcohol abuse has limited his ability to turn that into a career and make something of himself in the process. He is still amazing at what he does and I would go to him for any tattoo or what ever else over anybody in the world. My aunt Rosa works for ADT Security making peoples homes a safe place for the families living there. My grandpa works on RVs and he loves to travel with my grandma.
Right now I know how to pour concrete but the only time people get to see the work that I have done is if they just so happen to visit the place I poured at. Cars travel the county and sometimes even the world. My career goal is to restore and trick out old cars that look great and perform better. This way everyone can see my creations. So all in all my goal in life is to create a finish product that everyone likes and makes mans creations look like we actually care about what we own.
I am a hard working man that makes a living as an honest man. Right now I pour concrete and maintain the grounds at Canberra concrete pumping. My dad (Tony) owns his own concrete company called, Harrah’s Concrete. He has owned it for about 15 years now. I know that doesn’t sound like a very long time but it was long enough for me to watch the company boom and then bust. Concrete is very seasonal and depends so much on the housing market. If houses are being bought and sold a lot and populations keep growing then more houses need to be built.
All houses start with a concrete foundation so the concrete crew are always the first ones to work on it. Setting forms such as footer and walls to sidewalks and patios even basement floors and driveways. When it is time to pour its all hands on deck. We call the concrete mud when we pour because it is almost the same in that form. I guess you could say concrete is in my blood I have watched my dad set forms and pour all my life. My uncles do it and I’m sure more more people in my family have done it back some generations.
How it all started was on the days I didn’t have school I would go to work with my dad. At first I was the wash boy, washing all the tools as the crew was done with them and then check and make sure we had everything upon time to leave. I started mucking when I was strong enough. Some days my dad would be short handed and I would get in front of the rod (A metal 2*4 thats smoothes the concrete) with a rake flattening and leveling the slab. It wasn’t long though before I had a mag (a float) in my hand smoothing out the edges of the slab and using a bull float on the rest. The mag and bull float brings just enough cream to the surface to hid the gravel. It definitely takes a good eye to make the mud level and I remember having competitions with my uncle to see how close to flat and level we could get the mud before the rod. The rod was the tester and if we didn’t have to fill in a whole or take away from a mound then you got bragging rights and good eye sight is not to common in concrete.
My dad had a couple funny mexicans Balto and Mucher working for him that taught me how to Finish. My dad got lots of jobs from a subdivision that was growing called Iron Bridge. It took lots of practice and I was no good for the first few years. Finishing entails and making it all smooth or stamped if its inside and brume or stamped when its outside. Thats only one side of concrete, the other is setting the forms, Tying steal, and excavating. I am still the laborer which means I do all of the grunt work packing forms into a whole while my dad or someone else would set the form. They are all old farts and I get done lots faster and wind up helping them. Learning how to set forms and tie steel which really is not all that hard to do and I picked it up really quick. After about 3 summer breaks and days I had off school of running circles around the old guys I learned enough to be able to show up and not need any sense of direction from my dad or uncles. I knew what to do, we would park and I would jump out most of the time we would have a trailer and I would drop the trailer. Take off the straps and start prepping the forms while my dad would make his measurements and lay out the how they should go with a string line.
Prepping the forms is that extra step that is needed but no one likes doing, I have to clean dried up concrete off them and then douse one side with an oil that keeps the concrete from sticking to the form. Making stripping the forms after the mud is dry a whole lot easier. Then I pack the forms to where they are being set. I do this mostly with walls and those panels are so saturated in oil they way 3 times what they did as normal plywood. On days I pack panels I get all dirty from the oily forms and dust.
When pouring walls we start with a footer which is depending on the wall but normally about a foot and a half wide and a foot deep. The footer gets two pieces of rebar running through it and dowels sticking out the top so as we can tie the wall and footer together with the steal. Most of the time we start setting the walls the day after we pour the footers. We will set they outside of the wall by nailing a 2*4 to the footer with concrete nail at three quarters of an inch from the outside of the wall. This leaves enough room to nail the panels to the 2*4 having the outside the wall will end up on the inside of the panel. The next step is to tie steal which is rebar and we take sections and tie them to the dowels. then we button up. Pouring walls usually take a conveyor concrete truck or a pump truck. When the mud gets poured someone goes through with a vibrator to make the mud settle. Then someone smoothes the top of the wall and the job is done. We normally let the walls set for 24 to 48 hours before striping off the panels. Most concrete takes about 7 days to harden to the point you can drive on it or backfill the walls. The way to tell is that it is no longer the greenish color of the mud but a gray color.
After 7 years of working with concrete my knowledge of the trade is very brod but I never had to learn the businesses aspect of it. My dad always was the guy that took care of that. The company has 3 form trailer and a tool trailer. One of the trailers is staked with footer and flatwork forms, while one of the other ones has 4 foot panels, ties, and other stuff for small retainer walls. There is a goose neck trailer that has 10 foot panels and more stuff for walls. The stuff on the goose neck trailer is for basements and large retainer walls. In the tool trailer there are tools for setting forms and pouring along with finishing tools. The tool trailer is a decent sized boxvan trailer that goes with us to almost every job we get.
We have had jobs almost every where from Junction to Aspen to Eagle to even Meeker and every where in between. The biggest job we had was in Iron Bridge which is a high classed subdivision just south of Glenwood. We have poured lots of walls and slabs in Glenwood, the most resent in Glenwood was a slab for the Glenwood caverns where they where putting in a new maintenance shop. We have also done a stamped padio at a house not far from the school.
The Experience pouring concrete will help me move towards my true dream which is to restore cars. Again its about creating a great product. Working with my hands to make something beautiful whether its a concrete slab or restoring an old Comaro.
I really want to know how to restore cars, classic cars, pimp out some modern cars, and things that have never been done with them as well. In my opinion every car has to have a clean body. After taring down the vehicle I would fix all body and frame damage making it clean with strait lines and flowing curves. Owning a restoration business is my dream but I would have to have three shops for this. The first would be the tare down and inventory shop. There is would take apart the restoration project and and inventory all salvageable parts. Then the vehicle would go to the body and paint shop.
Now I don’t know to much about how to run a paint shop or the tools used in a paint and body shop so I interviewed Dave Malehorn, the owner of Professional Auto Body.
I first asked him, “How do you budget your auto shop?”
He say, “ I never really had to work within a budget, but I limit myself to certain permitters. I know how to make a profit when taking on a project. There is a mortgage and other bills that need to be paid so I need x amount of money for that. Just know what you need and know what you have to spend on that.”
I thought it was good advice but I know that I will have to have a budget when starting my business. Then I went on to ask, “How did you get started in the auto body industry.”
He told me how he started at a young age being a laborer kind of like I did in concrete. It took him a while to move up but after a few years he started working with metal and other things to straiten panels as well as other parts on a vehicle. “It was more of a trial and air experience learning how do certain things to bring the dent or damage back to a clean body panel.” He worked in a few body shops before he took on the job as owner of his company.
My next questions was, “What are your Job or positions that people have here at Professional Auto Body? As well as what kind of experience would they need.”
He replied, “I am the head manager, I take care of employment, getting my name out there and stuff related to that. There is my operations manager and she runs the business side of things. The operations manager needs a college degree. Then I have my office or production manager that makes sure bills are paid and parts are in. She also needs a college degree. The parts manager checks parts and makes sure there is no damage on them and makes the bill out for how ever much work is needed done. The parts manager also needs a college degree. I have a crew doing maintenance on the vehicle. The maintenance crew needs 4-8 years experience. Then there is my laborer that makes sure things are clean and other grunt work around the shop. My 3 body men take car of getting body panels and other parts back to a factory look. And the to painters prep and paint every piece that gets repaired. The body men need 4-8 years experience. Now one of my body men is a mechanic as well, he takes care of damage that goes past the body. Now my Crew does not go as fare as rebuilding engines and stuff, they just replace and or fix parts that are needed to make the vehicle run. Then I have 2 painters which clean and prep body panels for paint and paint them. I would also like to see the painter have 4-8 years of experience before I hire them.”
I went on to ask, “What is different when working with fiber glass as apposed to steel?”
He said, “Now I don’t work with fiber glass anymore, now there is this sheet molding compound and there are different kinds of the compound. The Compound breaks when stressed the wrong way as apposed to steel bending under stress.”
As the interview went on he took me into the back and showed me projects they where working on. I got to meet some of his employes along with see what they where doing at the time. I continued to ask, “How would I fix extensive damage that goes beyond the body?”
Dave said, “eventually the damage needs to be reversed. If the frame is bent then you would need to bend it back. If you cant bend the metal back then you would need to cut out and replace the damaged part.”
Dave took me into the paint area where I had the chance to ask a painter, “How would I paint a faded 2 tone?”
He said, “Atomize the paint and layer it from thick to thin. Atomizing the paint is when the paint mixes with the air to get a smooth lay out. To where you don’t get spots like out of a spray paint can but as if its a clean sheet of paint.”
The painter told me how I would go about painting which would start off with a primer or metal sealer. Then the base coat of paint is added topped by a clear sealer. They use an infer red lights to dry certain primers along with a IRT light for other primers. They mix all there paints by the weight and depending on the color and kind of paint depends on how much along with what gets added to the mixture.
The tools used in Professional Auto Body include dent pullers, hammers. For the 2 body only workers they have about 40,000 dollars wroth in tools which would be wrenches, screw drivers, sockets, and much more. For the guy that works on fixing and replacing parts has a lot more tools though, about 70,000 dollar in tools. He has tools like torch wrenches, an electrical meter, a timing gun and a whole lot more. There is a lift for alining vehicles, they have a lift for easier access to the under carriage. They have a portable lift just incase the main lift is in uses when there is car with a closely nearing deadline. The list of tools and equipment goes on to large ovens for drying paint to the computers they use to stuff that is used in the body end of the shop.
I want to work on more than just the body though. Suspension, Balance and Rim design would prove to be useful when building a classic that performs. Engine and transmission will bring the speed and gearing creates a smooth take off and brake. I picture cars being sexy and performs, it has to sound great not only under the hood but in the stereo. I could look at any car and have a design for it. I picture a 1968 Comaro SS with a 409 Chevy big block twin turbo with the top of the line NOS system. Painted Chevy orange with silver flake in the clear. Sitting on a set of 19” Foose rims raped in BF Good wrench tires. A stock car rear end, all around disk brakes and a top of the line suspension. A candy cherry red paint with black racing stripes and silver flake in the clear. The car will sparkle and glimmer in the sunlight. When I feel like cruising and listening to my music you will hear my two 18” subs from blocks and blocks away. The back seat will be replaced by a custom built fiberglass speaker box that is painted to match the car. A subs mounted behind both front seats, 6” speakers making a line right in between the subs and 6*9” inch speakers on the back edges of the box. Black racing bucket seats provide a comfortable place to sit for me and my one passenger. A custom fiber glass dash to match the speaker box in the back. And a velvety soft headliner with a design in it along with velvety soft carpet. This is my dream car that I have been dreaming about sense I seen classics on the road.
With every passing day life seems to get harder and harder to live. The economy is going down the drain and everyone is struggling to get by. I am going to learn a career that will always be there. Almost every one in the United States has a vehicle. All Vehicles will break down at one point or another. So I will always have work. More and more cars, trucks, SUVs and other kinds of Vehicles take to the road every single day. Not having work is not an option in the mechanical industry. On the other hand I already know a career and I will use my knowledge of that skill as a back up plan. Not only that but I will be able to work in that career right after high school to make the money to go to school for the career I want to learn so badly. After I take mechanics school I will start working in a shop. Make as much money as I can and then start my own shop restoring classic cars. Every single classic vehicle I restore will be unique and turn heads. That 1968 Comaro will be my first project and I will use it for advertisement to get other people to let me restore their classic. Every vehicle has a personality, my goal is to make that personality pop. So now you know you know what I know and my plans for the future. Now it is my turn to shine, to make my family proud, and make a great name for my self. It all starts with graduating high school which is coming up soon. May 25, 2012, the day cant come soon enough. I am so ready to start my life my way. Now I am going to end this with a, thanks for all your help and have a nice day.
Bibliography
Interview with Dave Malehorn
Interview with my uncle Andy Harrah
Interview with my dad Tony Harra