Draft 1 Outline –

• Who Bobo is
  • Why we call here bobo 
• Why I choose Bobo
  • Crazy portuguese 
  • Took care of me as child 
  • Took in my mom as her own child     
• Things Bobo has taught me 
• How strong Bobo really is 

Draft 2 Outline –

• Introduction 
• Bobo and I are very close
  • Nickname 
  • Yelling at graduation 
  • Took care of me when I was young 
• Bobo has the magic touch
  • Food when sick
• Taught me about unconditional love
  • Took in my mom 
  • Show’d no difference to us 
• Did not just teach me things
  • Swimming in her pool and running around her yard 
  • Playing blurt  
  • Watching house hunters 
• She is the strongest person I know
  • Currently going from chemotherapy
    • Had a reaction, asked Gabriella if share wanted food 
    • I call her and She’s still Bobo 
  • Never shows us fear but instead a smile
    • Something I take to heart
      • A role model for all of us

Link to Speech –

Robert Cielakie

SPC-100 

Prof. Miller

3/31/2023

Someone you look up to 

Hello everyone, I’m Bobby. When I first asked myself who is someone I look up to, I am very fortunate to say many people came to mind but I believe it took me about forty-five seconds to decide on who I would talk about. The fantastic person I am referring to is my Bobo. Bobo is my grandmother on my mother’s side and to say Bobo is one of the greatest people ever, would be an understatement. A little background on her name, Bobo is Portuguese so she first tried to have my older cousins call her Avo, which is grandmother in Portuguese but one of my older cousin’s Lucas could not pronounce that and Bobo came out of his mouth and it has stuck ever since. Her and I have always had a very close bond. For example, she gave me the nickname, her “Baby Boo” when I was very young, which I had to ask her and apparently I was a really really big peekaboo fan. But the nickname stuck and even at my high school graduation when my entire family was shouting, all I could hear over all of them was this crazy Portuguese lady screaming, “That’s my Baby Boo!, That’s my Baby Boo!”. 

Bobo took care of my two older sisters and I very often as my parents both had to work as we could not afford day-care or babysitters. So many summers were spent swimming in her pool and playing a board game named Blurt! where you literally have to “blurt” out the answers to the questions as fast as you can, which doesn’t sound too crazy but it gets extremely competitive at Bobo’s. A lot of my early childhood was spent with her so behind my parents, she has been one of the biggest teachers I’ve had in life. She has taught me many skills and lessons that naming them all would take too long but the reason it took me so little time to choose who I would be talking about in my speech is due to her teaching me two of my biggest life lessons. The greatest lessons she has taught me is to love unconditionally and to be mentally strong. 

Bobo is not my biological grandmother and you would never be able to guess. She was my mom’s step-mom and even though she and my grandfather separated, Bobo never left my Mom’s or any of my aunt’s or uncles’ lives. I have never seen her treat anyone differently because they were or weren’t her biological child and that is something that has and will forever stick with me. Family is so important to me, it is the people who love you regardless, those who may be mad at you in the moment but would do anything for you. It is these little things, like simply making sure we aren’t hungry or need anything when we first come into her house, that has shown me over time how much she cares. She does not have to go out of her way to try and make others happy but she does. This is not a rare event for Bobo to put what she has going on aside for other people, even when we are supposed to help her when she is not doing well. Bobo refuses to allow bad circumstances to change the love she gives to others. 

Recently Bobo was diagnosed with stage two cancer, which was said to be close to stage three so action was immediate. She has successfully gone through surgery to remove the mass as well as the first round of chemotherapy . She went back for her second round of chemotherapy and had an allergic reaction that resulted in her going into anaphylactic shock. The doctors got her stable and she was able to return to her house later that day. My oldest sister Gabriella went to check up on Bobo and when Gabby gets there, Bobo springs out of bed to make my sister a full dinner with a sandwich, chips on the side, and soup she had made early in the week. The lady literally went into shock from her chemotherapy a few hours prior and she made dinner like it was any other tuesday. The strength to go through everything she is going through, have a severe allergic reaction and then pretend none of any of that happened and still just being our loving grandmother is honestly just incredible to me. 

I really am lucky to have such an amazingly loving and strong individual to look up to. The two main lessons that Bobo has indirectly taught me, go perfectly together in my opinion. Having the strength, no matter the obstacles life has thrown at you, to love. To put your own business aside and show others kindness. This is being strong, to love when you don’t want to or even when you don’t need to give love but you do anyways. So I want to finish by saying Bobo, I definitely will be showing you this, so thank you for these lessons, and to cancer, I’d watch out because this crazy Portuguese lady is definitely coming for you.  

Thank you!