Who I am

           Hello my name is Joey Bramanti; I am from North Andover Massachusetts.  I am 18 years old and I am at Cheshire Academy to help further my academics and to play baseball.  I took this year to raise my grades as well as my SAT scores.  I also took this year to get stronger, to help further my baseball career. 

            I am a third generation in my family. By the name of, Joseph Francis Bramanti.  My father goes by Jay and my grandfather went by Papa Joe.  I hope to carry this tradition on with my child and I hope he will do the same too.

            One of the main reasons that I am taking this year is because my sophomore in high school I had a serious ankle injury.  I broke my fibula, displaced my tibia and tore a bunch of ligaments in my ankle, playing hockey.  I got sick from my surgery.  This caused me to miss a week of school making me fall behind in class.  The next month I missed another two weeks of school because I was sick from Mono.  This allowed me to fall very behind in school, making my grades suffer.  Along with being behind in class I was falling very behind on the field missing my whole high school season and summer.  When I came back to baseball my junior year I was still not 100% and wasn’t at my full potential.  So now I am here using my senior year in high school as another junior year.

            Baseball is very important to me, this is because my father was a very good player and he started me at a young age..  I feel that it gives me freedom to do something I love.  It also gives me something to push myself in along with school.  I feel that I get a good balance from school and baseball.  It is something that I want to do in college.  I think that it will help with time management to get schoolwork done and baseball.  I feel that if I didn’t play a sport in college that I would get very bored and not know what to do with myself.

            I am taking this class because my parents told me that it would help me further on in life when I have to give presentations or speeches. I agreed with them because I have never been great at giving presentations in class.  I believe that it will help with all the nit picky things and help me become a more fluent presenter.  I would like to break all of the bad habits that I have gained over the years while speaking publicly.  I want to get rid of the “um’s” and “ah’s”.  I believe that if you are a good speaker you will be able to go a lot further.  Speaking well makes you sound smarter than you are.  Especially in job interviews if you are not using the “um’s” and “ah’s” you will appeal to the people you are trying to get a job from.