Oklahoma’s Kids Belong - Demetrius

My name is Demetrius, and I'm 16 years old. I think my favorite food is Chinese food, and my second is American food I guess. Some of us, we just like to go to the swing set. We swing, we go to the basketball court and play basketball, volleyball, tennis. Majority of the times, we like to go to the basketball gym and shoot around and stuff. I played small forward, and then I used to play center, but I used to switch out. My favorite team is the Cavs, Cleveland. I think my second favorite team is Thunder. 

[No Audio: How would your friends describe you?]

Some of them would say I get annoyed real fast, so probably annoying sometimes. Probably funny. 

I know I want to be a dad who has my own kids, but also I want to adopt kids in the future as I get kids of my own old enough, and then I'll adopt some more kids, I guess. I think of a family like a whole, with kids and stuff in a good house and good jobs. A family that loves each other and that is there for each other. Once I get out of high school, I want to go to college, and might want to be a counselor for a few years. After counseling, I want to become a police officer. I like helping people, so I guess I'd be a counselor in school I guess, just to talk to kids one on one. I'm not the person that just thinks about me all day. I'm probably a person who worries about other people sometimes.

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