Former Mayor Street Visits the Students

Mayor Street

Mayor Street is an incredible inspiration teacher. The speech he gave to the program inspired me in numerous ways. Even though it was an educated lecture, he mad it very interesting by throwing in a couple of jokes every now and then.

Mayor Street was very wise in the situation that he was in, He knew how to catch the people eye (attention) when he felt like he was losing it. He gave away many gifts, manly just money, but that’s what kept the people woke and excited about what he was going to say.

Mayor Street also taught us about luck, and that luck is all around us. He told us that there are the lucky ones, and that there are the ones that aren’t lucky, and that we might be the ones that are unlucky so it is up to us to take hold of our own future and not depend on luck

~Joshua Watts

Mayor John Street

Last week former Mayor Street visited Temple University. All the groups in the BITS program sat around for his presentation. He made everyone put their name inside a hat for prizes. My name came up along with a few others. He focused on future decisions. He also said that your future should not be decided on luck. So, you have to have a plan for your life. Mayor Street also shared a quote “ You will never reach your destination, if you throw a stone at every barking dog”. I took that as cannot let everything distract you because you will never reach your destination or your purpose in life.

~Eboney Barnes

Former Mayor Street

The former mayor of Philadelphia John Street gave an entertaining presentation on life lessons. He demonstrated these by doing different exercises and activities involving the audience(us).

One life lesson was “Do not depend on luck” he demonstrated this by put every ones name in a hat and pulling out random names so it was just luck of the draw to see who won either the money or the Obama gear.

Another life lesson was that in life you need goals because “if you don't have a destination you will never arrive”.

I liked the way he Incorporated the audience into his presentation. The presentation was not boring because of that. He also grabbed the attention of the audience by giving prizes and gifts out to those who participated.

I really wouldn’t change everything about it. but if one thing had to change it would be to try to make the presentation a bit longer.

~Robert AJr.

Mayor Street

When mayor Street was here at Temple, I had a lot of fun. I liked that he had a sense of humor. While he was here I learned new quotes to go by like “if you stop to throw a stone at every barking dog, you will not reach your destination.” The quote means that if you let things distract you from doing what you’re doing you will never get there. I wouldn’t change anything about when he came because it was fun.

~Shaniya Brooks

Mayor John Street

When mayor John Street came to our program it was a very cool experience.He made it a fun and cool experience. Mayor street talked to us about preparing ahead.Mayor street speech really made you think about what do you want for yourself. Every goal needs preparation to get there.Like mayor street said “a dream without preparation is just a wish”.Mayor street has alot of humor but is very serious about young peoples future. Mayor street wants the best for young people and wants them to do better than he did.

~Zamir Ayers

Mayor Street's Visit

I came late the day the mayor was here because my trolley broke down. So I missed part of his speech. The parts I did get to see were surprisingly funny, which was amazing to me because when he was running for mayor all of his speeches were boring.

During his speech he didnt really talk a lot but he taught us stuff we would need later on in life. Firs he made everyone write there name down on a peace of paper and put the names in a hat. Then he withdrawed from the hat. Who ever name did get picked got some money from a bag. A couple of people won more money then the other.

Then we played another game. It was a game he played while he was growing up you couldn't laugh or speak for five minutes. Someone came close but the mayor said virgana. And the whole room started laughing even the boy who was close. Thats why he lost.

Finally at the end he told us why he made us play them games. Why because he wanted us to never depend on luck but to go and get a deploma make money on are own

~Gary Bates

The Mayor John Street

During the visit , He talked about his life in North Philadelphia and how it all begin . He also talked about how he was a student at Temple University . AND how much effort he had to put into becoming a mayor . Then he gave us some good advice of being capable to reach our goal in the future.

~Maurticia Brinkley