John St.

Former mayor John Street was here at Temple just addressing the bits program for the summer 2010. He came with a message of encouragement for everybody from young high school students to college students that are here in the program as well. It was a fun experience as well as educational. I learned a lot on where he came from and his struggle to make it to where he wanted to be and it gave a lot of encouragement seeing a fellow north Philadelphian make it successfully out of his situation. He left with a message "Evey man or woman that stops to throw rocks at barking dogs will never reach their destination", which means that you will never reach your goal if you constantly are caring about what other people are going to say. He had various games set up for the first ten kids to come up to the front of the room. The games were fun but they had a deep message to them, the message to one of the games that i remember that we as young adults have our head on straight but we are too easily distracted. Overall i really liked the meeting it taught me a valuable lesson