Keyshawn

by KYW's Larry Kane
Produced by Jim Melwert

Fifteen-year-old Keyshawn loves playing sports like football and basketball, and says he just picked up a new activity:

"I just started boxing, too. I'm trying something new."

As for school, Keyshawn says he likes history and math:

"It's going good.  At first, I ain't gonna lie, beginning of the year I started slipping up.  But I'm working up and I'm getting better now. I'm pulling my grades up and everything. Doing what I've got to do."

When Keyshawn thinks about adoption, it's the simple things he wants from a family:

"Going out, having fun, laughing, making jokes, and just enjoying life."

As for his future plans:

"I want to own a studio and stuff. Like go to college -- of course college first -- but I want to be a rapper and stuff."

And when he's with his friends, Keyshawn likes to come up with rhymes:

(brief rap sample)

Keyshawn's social worker, Will Florese, says Keyshawn would be a welcome addition to any active family:

"Having this dry sense of humor. He says something funny, but for him it's just a statement thrown out, but there's just a lot of reasoning, there's a lot of layers to the jokes. He doesn't realize how funny he can be."

For more information, go to the web site of the Adoption Center of Delaware Valley, ACDV.org.