Many people face challenges that they have too over-come in live. A challenge I had to over-come was losing my father freshman year of high school. Losing any parent is tough, but I felt like it was more of a challenge for me. What made this difficult for me was that it was my first year of high school and that's one of your most important years in school. I had a lot of work to catch up on because I had missed a lot of days at school. It was around exam time, so I had to work extremely hard to get caught up on my work. Also, I had to study for my exams so that I could pass all my classes. During all of this I was facing problems at the house, so I was trying to balance everything out. At this point I was overwhelmed with school and everything else that was going on around me. I started separating myself from people so that I could focus on my work. Losing my father freshman year was a challenge for me because I was missing a lot of days in school. I had too makeup classwork, homework and on top of that it was around exam time. So, I was extremely stressed out because all the work I had to do. What made this so hard was me trying to balance school and issues at home. One my first day back at school my teachers were …show more content…
At the beginning, I was missing a lot of days and had a lot of catching up to do. But I was able to get all my makeup work done study and past all my exams. I was working very hard at school because I didn't want my father death to be the reason why I didn't past the 9th grade. I stayed after school, asked for help and even had my own personal tutor. Even though there was a lot going on at home, I still was able to get all my work completed by the time it was due. If you are just starting out in high school and one of your parents died and things get tough don't let that distract you from going to school. If you ever experience what I went through you should work hard in school, don't get
Life will be overflowing with challenges but that's to be expected, As everyone experiences some sort of problem or discomfort that might irritate them. That's to be expected but what matters is how people can handle those situations and not repeat their mistakes causing them a more drastic time. Some find their way out of a situation that you never want to be in by making the right decisions and others turn to have a harder challenge. The novel “speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson displays this as a young teen girl, her name Melinda sordino going into her first year of high school and facing many problems and challenges as she is unable to communicate with others about all the horrific things that have happened to her in school and outside of
Although I personally feel like I have accomplished a fair amount for my age it was definitely not easy There were many hardships faced on my journey which started freshman year in my second semester and sophomore year it began with my parents arguing a lot after my grandparents died which we were very close to they would argue all the time in front of my little sister and I so during school that 's all I thought about because I wanted to make sure my parents stayed together which led to my grades dropping, forcing me to fall behind which made me not strive to get the grades I
During elementary school, I rarely struggled with the difficulty or workload. When I tested in and attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School for 7th grade, I was soon overwhelmed by the stress and workload. Because of how independent I was in grade school, I struggled with figuring out how to lessen the stress and deal with it. I rarely approached my parents, because of their lack of knowledge about my coursework. Even though my grades began to drop, I continued to believe that I could handle it on my own.
It was struggle, especially when I first entered high school. It was at that time when insecurity filled my mind and body. I questioned my abilities, and every single detail in my work. I asked myself, if only
The days I did go I was exhausted from staying up with my mother and had difficulty staying awake or concentrating in class. My grades suffered horribly so over time the thought of even going to high school faded from my mind. In fact, if it weren 't for the special help of my math teacher I most likely would have failed 8th grade. When I came to Pennsylvania things completely turned around. With heavy hearts, my younger brother and I moved up to live with my mom 's aunt and uncle after her death.
Perspective Change "Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. " These are the words of the one and only Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a distinguished leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Perspective change is an important tool when speaking in regards to other people’s feelings, and putting oneself in someone else’s shoes can have a tremendous impact on his/her outlook. My perspective on my mom changed greatly when she and my dad went on vacation for a week and left my brother and me with our grandma.
I had to take care of my books and do all my work in time. I didn’t really have to do that before; it was really new. I went to high school for a few years after I came to America, but college was a lot harder and I almost
So life had to drastically transition from me being a lax sophomore that depended on my parents to plan everything for me and keep me in check for school work to living on my own and not having that sturdy support. At this school when I was learning to become an independent individual I had many opportunities to work on my time management and scheduling, and I had to learn how to get over my emotions on my own as a teenager with no parent or sibling to express these feeling to. Also through this whole school experience I had to have relationships with my teachers independently be able to figure out compromises and create bonds with them, without the help of parents and keeping a handle on my
With that going to college is a complicated procedure. My dad dropped out of high school, my mom only got her high school diploma, and my sister has dropped out of community college four times. My mom told me I would never amount to anything and that I could never go to college because we don’t have the money.
Getting through high school is a difficult thing to do and once you graduate you have a lot of important choices to make that are influenced by the environment that you are in and the people around you (your family). You have to decide if you’re going to go to college or not, if you’re going to live at home or move out, and many other things. Some people go from high school graduation straight into the work force and don’t even think about college due to the environment they grew up in and the expectations of their parents. My dad graduated high school and went straight into the work force because his family was extremely poor and to them college wasn’t even an option. My mom on the other hand had no choice but to attend college.
Literacy Narrative Essay Growing up in New York City was hard for me because my mom and dad split and we always moved all over the place. First I lived in Harlem then i moved to Brooklyn then moved to the Bronx.
I do not that not let any setbacks or obstacles interfere with my education. I have maintain a 3.7 GPA despite of my after school job during my junior year. My mom told me during my tenth grade year that my junior year was going to either make me or break me. She explained I had to be really on top of my studies and I had no room for small mistakes.
High school grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I’ll take with me the rest of my life. My high school experience has influenced my development as a person inside and outside of the class by making me more independent, choosing friends wisely and teachers motivating me to attend college and accomplish goals I have set for myself. I have gained my independence slowly throughout high school. The importance of being independent is being secure with who you are and what you believe in.
I realized I wasn’t a good student my behavior inside the classroom was horrible but I could recognize I had a really good connection with my teachers even though I was super noisy in class and always laughing basically I was like a clown, until today I still talk to them as my second parents. Memorable moments in my life that I consider the scariest days and at the same time moments to celebrate was my last year in High School. De La Salle Panama is known for a lot of people as a really hard school to graduate and the hardest year is grade 12 (2014: my last year in High School). Remember moments when I was studying and I took me the whole night to study for my several
In our life, there are periods of challenges that we must face, but the real challenge is how we grow and learn from overcoming them. Being naive children, we believed that life was simplistic and effortless. Well, we were wrong, we can only yearn for life to be easy. Growing up, we continue to face countless hurdles that only get bigger and bigger. My life, in particular, has been filled with numerous up and downs.