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Please Help me live my Dream!!!!

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Hello my name is Karlyn Ray, I am a 17 year old senior at Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, IA. I am asking for a business, a person, anybody that will please help me achieve my dream, going to Japan. I am particpating in a compeitition called the Japan Bowl. What it is is basically a Academic Dethalon for Japanese Culture and this year for the first time ever they are having were the top 5 teams in all categories and that team's members get to go to japan for free. The Japan Bowl takes place April 10,11 and I need to get plane tickets before March 25, 2014. I have always been in love with Japan since the first Anime I seen. Dragonball Z,  after watching DBZ, it left a impression on me. it help me create motivation. With God, my family, and DBZ, those things help me become who I am today. I always wanted to go to japan because i want to become a translator for the Japanese embassy. I need 700 to help me get my ticket to go washington D.C. to particpate. Plane tickets are around $325, Room and board( i will be there more than one day) is $140 and me and my other team members must pay for our teacher to come with us because he is taking time away from his kids and wife to be with us. I have been through alot in my life. The world is already hard on me because i am an african american black male. I seen people killed in front of face as a young child. I was once chased by the KKK when I used to leave in Leavenworth,Kansas. Help me push pass all the people who told me I cannot be something Great and that I wont succeed to anything wrong. Please Help me go to Japan!

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Karlyn Derek Deon Ray
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Cedar Rapids, IA

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