User talk:Eric Daniel

Biography of Eric Owen Daniel By: EOD

My name is Eric Daniel. I was born in Moses Lake, WA at Samaritan Hospital on February 16th 1989. My mother’s name is Trisha Martin and my father’s name is Richard Daniel. Two or three months after I was born my mom and dad and me moved to Seattle, WA. I was two years old when my Brother Aaron Daniel was born. I was happy that I got to be a big brother. Aaron and I got into trouble together and even more trouble as we got older. When I was 4 years old and Aaron was 2 years old my mom and dad divorced. Aaron and I didn’t understand why we had to go with our mom back to Moses Lake and my dad wasn’t coming with us and why we wouldn’t be able to see him for a while. My mom took Aaron and me to Moses Lake in her convertible. We had nowhere to go except to my great grandma’s. (My mom’s dad’s mom). We went there and my mom and great grandma talked about us staying there for a while and we all got to stay with my great grandma. My mom started to look for a job so that we didn’t have to stay with my great grandma forever. She had a lot of applications to apply for jobs. She was gone a lot and my brother and I stayed with my great grandma Maida. One day my mom was actually at the house when the phone rang she answered it, she seemed to be excited and when she hung the phone up she told all of us that she has a job at Godfather’s pizza as a delivery person. A couple days later she started going to work at night, Aaron and I got to see her during the day but she would always leave for work before we went to bed. About a week later my mom said that I was going to start kindergarten. A day or two later my mom took me to a big school called Midway Elementary and I met my teacher who was very nice. I liked kindergarten because all the kids were nice and we got to do fun things and play lots of games. About four months after I started kindergarten my mom told me that I was not going to be able to go to school there anymore because we were going to move to Mansfield, WA with my other grandparents (my mom’s mom and dad). We were moving because my mom quit her job because she wanted to leave Moses Lake. That day we all told my great grandma Maida thanks for letting us stay with her and good buy. It took us a long time to go to Mansfield from Moses Lake. When we got to my grandparents house In Mansfield, they came out to help us take in our bags of clothes and other things my mom took. We all had fun there, Four weeks after coming to my grandma’s and grandpa’s, my brother Aaron turned three years old and all we had was some cake and ice cream, he never got any birthday presents. A month after Aaron’s birthday it was my fifth birthday and there was a birthday party for me but only some of the family was there. I got a big cake and a lot of cool presents for my birthday. I think my brother was mad at me because he didn’t get any presents, I shared some of the toy’s I got for my birthday. About six months later, I got to start first grade in Mansfield. I had fun in first grade but it was different than kindergarten in Moses Lake, we didn’t get to play as many games, we had to do more than coloring and drawing, and we didn’t take naps. First grade was harder than kindergarten. I went to school in Mansfield for about six months and than my mom said that we were going to Los Angeles, CA because her uncle (my grandma’s brother) was dieing. We went to California after my mom told the school I would not be there for a while. When we got to California it was very hot. It was the hottest place I have ever been, it was hot all day long but it got cooler at night. We were in California for about three weeks and than mine and Aaron’s great uncle (my mom’s uncle, my grandma’s dad) died. Aaron and I didn’t understand what had happened. We just saw a lot of people (some who were our family and some weren’t but the only one’s there that we knew was our mom and grandma.) The day after his funeral we went back to Mansfield. I thought I was going back to school the following day but when that day came my mom said that we were going to go stay with her sister (our aunt) in Bridgeport, WA. After we moved to Bridgeport with our aunt I got to start school again. I didn’t like Bridgeport school because every day at recess there was this big kid who would come over and call me a whole bunch of bad names and chase me around the playground calling me names. I told my mom what was happening and she went and talked to the principle, the principal must have suspended the kid because I didn’t see the kid the rest of the year. After a few months my mom was getting fat, Aaron and I didn’t know why but we found out she was going to have another boy. We stayed at my aunts until my mom had the baby and than we moved into a house with some guy friend of my mom’s (the baby’s dad). We stayed there for a while and than we moved to a different house, my mom was going to have another boy two months after we moved into the new house. About two weeks before my mom had the baby I got out of school. It was now summer time and I had lots of fun playing with other kids around the neighborhood. My mom had another boy, about five or six months later my mom and her boyfriend split up and my mom took Aaron, me, Victor, and Brice to Moses Lake again and we went back to my Great Grandma Maida’s. We lived there for quit a while, I started going to school again, Aaron started Kindergarten and was telling me about how much fun he had. After a while my mom said she wanted to move into a house about ten blocks away with her new boyfriend, her, Aaron, Victor, and Brice moved there but I got to stay with Grandma Maida to help her out. During that time my mom has been to three other houses in Moses Lake. I lived with my mom again for a while and my mom had three more boys. In the year 2005 I lived with my Great Grandma again because my mom found out she had cancer. I finished elementary school at Peninsula, I went to Midway Middle School portables and now I come to Columbia Basin Secondary School. My mom died in February 2005 and all the kids live in different places, I still live with my Great Grandma, one of my brothers lives here in Moses Lake with my aunt, two of my brothers live in Bridgeport with my other aunt, One of my brothers lives with my Grandma and Grandpa in Mansfield, another one of my brothers lives with his dad in Bridgeport, and two other of my Brother’s live with their dad in Wenatchee, WA. I have had quit an interesting life. It’s been filled with good and bad. Some of the good were; starting school, having brothers, playing with brothers, having a nice mom, having a place to go to at all times, etc. Some of the bad were; moving to many places, going to more than one school, living in other’s homes like my aunts and grandparents instead of a home of our own, my mom dieing, all the kids going to different homes and not the same one, etc.