I am someone who really loves math. I have always been fascinated by how calculations run merely everything in the world from buildings to flying airplanes to designing pathways. Therefore, i am proudly one of those people who view Math as an essence of education and therefore promote it largely within school. When i was younger i always asked my father, why do i need to learn matrix formulas and geometric figures. Later in life i began to appreciate the value of math and how i use it in my everyday life. However, it was not only math that aroused my curiosity. What i loved about all was the numbers and how they made sense to me. I was quite an isolated child who did not really like socializing with my classmates. However, math always made sense to me. I was able to make calculations and understand concepts at a younger age that people at my age were not expected to understand. As the years went by, i deeply became fond of the number 5. This number represents the number of people present within my family including me, my jersey number during my soccer varsity years in high school and the number of best friends i have established over the years.
My family means the world to me. 5 is the number of members in my family and i could not bare the idea of losing any of them. The head of the family, or as i like to call him my King, my father is a very smart man who always supported me in my education and wanted to see me prosper in life. I like to look up to him as my mentor as he guides me through life and helps me achieve my goal. My queen, or my mother, is just as important as my father. She is my source of care and love and cherishes my presence and ides more than anything in the world. She always makes me feel better when i feel low and thus i will always look up to her. My brother is someone who always treated me like his equal and i forever will appreciate that about him. He is ten years older than me, thirty years old precisely, and always puts my opinion and ideas on the same level of his. He usually defends me in the family when i make stupid mistakes and covers up for me. The last member of the family is my sister, who is five years older than me , twenty five years old today, and treats me like a little baby. She refuses to accept the fact that i am an adult now and although that could be annoying sometimes, i love it because she tends to spoil me with gifts and love. She always tells me “ Yakout, you will always be the baby in the family.” I use to really get upset about how she refuses to acknowledge i am an adult but over time i learnt to appreciate it and understand that she does it out of love and not to annoy me. However, number five marks more than just my family it marks the good old days where i use to play soccer for my high school varsity team. Number 5 was the number of my jersey. That number brought me a lot of luck as during my soccer days, we use to win most tournaments. It was very hard for me to give up my jersey number as i really truly believed it gave me good luck. Although, i am someone who believes more that hard work yields result rather than chance and luck, i was very much committed to my jersey number. Sadly, i broke my knee during a tournament and had to renounce playing soccer forever as the injury would be permanent. Although i was devastated about my injury, i was even more devastated when i found out a new member of the soccer team requested number five as a way to “honor” my commitment to soccer. At first, i was very upset as i did not want to give this number to anyone. After a while i realized that this number will forever remain in my legacy and that i should be proud to pass it along to the newer generation, and thus i did.
Number Five also constitutes of the number of people involved in my circle. We like to call ourselves CSDY2, as the initials represent the names ; Chaimae, Sadie, Daniel, Yasmine, and Yakout. I always counted on these people as i would with my own family. During High school, they supported me during my high’s and my lows. I look at them as the people i will always keep in contact with regardless of my whereabouts. Sadly, Today Chaimae is in Holland,Sadie is in Morocco, Daniel is in Spain, Yasmine is in Belgium and I am in the United States. Although so far from one another, we always manage to make time to Skype with one another and update each other about each other’s lives. I have posted a picture of all of us together and a few of me and them separately to get an understanding of how close we are to one another. We support each other completely and plan trips where we all get to meet. This summer, we all planned to meet in Morocco so we can see our family’s as well. I am really excited to see them again as they lighten up my life and i will forever be grateful for their support and love.
My family means the world to me. 5 is the number of members in my family and i could not bare the idea of losing any of them. The head of the family, or as i like to call him my King, my father is a very smart man who always supported me in my education and wanted to see me prosper in life. I like to look up to him as my mentor as he guides me through life and helps me achieve my goal. My queen, or my mother, is just as important as my father. She is my source of care and love and cherishes my presence and ides more than anything in the world. She always makes me feel better when i feel low and thus i will always look up to her. My brother is someone who always treated me like his equal and i forever will appreciate that about him. He is ten years older than me, thirty years old precisely, and always puts my opinion and ideas on the same level of his. He usually defends me in the family when i make stupid mistakes and covers up for me. The last member of the family is my sister, who is five years older than me , twenty five years old today, and treats me like a little baby. She refuses to accept the fact that i am an adult now and although that could be annoying sometimes, i love it because she tends to spoil me with gifts and love. She always tells me “ Yakout, you will always be the baby in the family.” I use to really get upset about how she refuses to acknowledge i am an adult but over time i learnt to appreciate it and understand that she does it out of love and not to annoy me.
However, number five marks more than just my family it marks the good old days where i use to play soccer for my high school varsity team. Number 5 was the number of my jersey. That number brought me a lot of luck as during my soccer days, we use to win most tournaments. It was very hard for me to give up my jersey number as i really truly believed it gave me good luck. Although, i am someone who believes more that hard work yields result rather than chance and luck, i was very much committed to my jersey number. Sadly, i broke my knee during a tournament and had to renounce playing soccer forever as the injury would be permanent. Although i was devastated about my injury, i was even more devastated when i found out a new member of the soccer team requested number five as a way to “honor” my commitment to soccer. At first, i was very upset as i did not want to give this number to anyone. After a while i realized that this number will forever remain in my legacy and that i should be proud to pass it along to the newer generation, and thus i did.
Number Five also constitutes of the number of people involved in my circle. We like to call ourselves CSDY2, as the initials represent the names ; Chaimae, Sadie, Daniel, Yasmine, and Yakout. I always counted on these people as i would with my own family. During High school, they supported me during my high’s and my lows. I look at them as the people i will always keep in contact with regardless of my whereabouts. Sadly, Today Chaimae is in Holland,Sadie is in Morocco, Daniel is in Spain, Yasmine is in Belgium and I am in the United States. Although so far from one another, we always manage to make time to Skype with one another and update each other about each other’s lives. We support each other completely and plan trips where we all get to meet. This summer, we all planned to meet in Morocco so we can see our family’s as well. I am really excited to see them again as they lighten up my life and i will forever be grateful for their support and love.