Memoir Bodhi Maximus Yost is my name, but I like to call myself Bodious Maximus because my mind is incomprehensible by mortal minds. The Bodhi Tree or Tree of Awakening in India is the tree that I am named after. According to Buddhism, a Buddha attained enlightenment there. Maximus my middle name means greatest or largest in Latin. I do not know much about my surname Yost, since my father only knows our family lineage up to my great grandfather. Art, basketball, and soccer are three things I love to do. In fourth grade my teacher Mrs. Raben gave her students the project of drawing the “Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh. finishing mine in about two weeks I was way behind everyone, but it was worth the effort, because it turned out to be a masterpiece. I first started doing art at Miriah Arts in kindergarten, where we shaped clay, performed in plays, painted, and doodled. Art is something I enjoy doing because of the amazing sense of accomplishment you have when you’ve captured something onto a piece of paper. Did you know the first basketball was a soccer ball? I play basketball because I enjoy the challenge of shooting the basketball into the hoop. Basketball first caught my interest in the fourth grade. It happened like this: I run out of the school and see some kids lining up for a shooting game called Bump (Bumps a game where you try …show more content…
Your teammate kicks the soccer ball from the corner. Woosh! the ball flies through the air. Boing! it bounces off your legs. Gasp! the audience holds their breath as you head towards the goal. Clang! the ball hits the post and ricochets in. Goal! I first started soccer sometime before second grade, but then stopped after my coach stopped coaching. Since then I’ve recently started it again and am at the point where I can make decent passes and am a decent runner. I enjoy soccer, because of the feeling of being a gear in a machine, with each gear doing its part, some bigger than others, to achieve a common