EXPLORATION TWO: Kiaya

My name is Kiaya Divine Royster. I was born May 29^th 1995, at 4:44 am. I grew up with two older half brothers but I wasn’t very close to either of them. I went to Christ the King, now All Saints Academy from pre school until 4^th grade, which let me tell you is the worst time to move. All the kids are old enough to have formed their BFF’s and losing mine at the time was hard. I started attending Hamilton Township high school where I am now an alumni. I made some friends but never felt too close to anyone except Arielle Marie Gray and Hannah Morgan McGaffee. I turned 18 five days after I graduated and in that time I became a missing person/run away/adult. I lost my mind but eventually came to my senses and got back on track joining the military in November of 2014. I am now 20 and starting my freshman year of college with a lot more insight on the world is how I look at it. I have a French bulldog puppy named Abel and he keeps my hands full if I’m not doing school work.

            In the beginning chapter of a call to write, I learned that not matter where you go looking you will always find thoughts being written out. Ads, signs, posters it’s everywhere. I liked the essay “My culture at the Crossroads” the most. I feel like Powell gets his point across about his past with hip-hop and where he thinks its headed very clearly. He ties in different races and even refers to the transition of hip-hop as a “civil war”. He gets much deeper than a lot of get-back-to-your-roots papers or speeches than I’ve heard.