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Personal Narrative: I Had To Go To High School

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As a child, I was always told to dream big by my mother, father, and many others. Nonetheless, living with my mother, stepfather, and siblings in San Jose, there was constantly fighting, moving around, and fear from within, as well as the outside world. I always struggled in school but didn’t think much of it, considering both parents and older siblings were high school dropouts but weren’t in disastrous situations. Towards the end of elementary school, I refused to go to school because of my social phobia, as well as the fact that I would be bullied because of my speech impediment. Near the end of my seventh grade, I went to Modesto with my dad every weekend and found the different environment to be very calming, thus when the time came for him to bring me back home, I would cry in the car and beg to be taken back to Modesto. …show more content…

In this new environment, I was able to focus more in school and overcome my phobia, as to where I am now a straight A student with a 4.39 GPA who is active in various clubs on campus. Now, as I am in my last year of high school, I look back on what I have accomplished and can’t even comprehend how much I have changed over the years. This experience has lead me to where I am now, the first in my immediate family to graduate from high school and not just have the opportunity to go to college, but even the possibility of choosing which college I go to. Such an experience taught me that nothing is given in life; if one has a desire, they must reach out for it, not just sit idly by and wait until somehow, the desire reaches

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