My Project

This is me before, and after.  School doesn't start for a few more days.  I wonder what everyone is going to think.

Hi my name is Mikel and I'm 13 years old.

So I am starting this blog to show others what I did.
What is that you ask?  Well, I shaved my head. I have done it twice, and both times it was a lot of fun. But I always thought it was strange how some little kid was wearing my hair, now there is going to be two little kids wearing my hair.

The last time I did this I had a lot of different experiences.  Like the two little girls at the furniture store who made it a point to tell their "mommy" about my hair.   As one pointed, the other whispered, "Mommy, that girl has no hair!"  Or the little boy at the look out at the lake whose voice carried to us on the wind.  He also pointed and and loudly proclaimed for his dad to look at us. 

Then there were people who, when I told them about why I had done it, looked at me like I was crazy. However, there were many, many more people that responded to my bare head with tears, and a giant, sometimes several, giant hugs.

At my old school many of the kids there didn't seem to care. Then about a year ago I went to a new school and when those kids found out, they all thought that it was so cool that I would give up all my hair.

I think its funny how I get halfway done with my hair cut and then I start having second thoughts, but you know its impossible to go back.  This is day three and I cant wait to see what all my friends think about it.  One of my friends said they wanted to do it too.  (We'll see if her parents let her.)

So with her prompting, I've decided to see how many people I could get to donate all of their hair for some little kid.   A kid who struggles every day, with a serious disease and a loss of hair because of the treatment's for that disease.

So if you decide to donate all of your hair please let me know. And I'm not talking about to the shoulders or to the ears, I mean to the shortest you could possibly make it without being completely bald.

Here in a 2 minute nutshell, is me taking the plunge.
My project.

I am so grateful to have the support of my mom and my sister.  They are both walking around bald with me too.  I am glad they are willing to do this with me.

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