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Personal Narrative: My Life As A Professional Soccer Player

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I live about 4 hours from Fort Wayne,Indiana. I am from Chicago,Illinois and was born and raised I had an amazing childhood. My parents would took my sister and I once a year on vacations. This would include all over Europe basically, Hawaii, Cancun, Toronto and The Bahamas. All my life I dreamt of because a professional soccer player. Playing for 12 years made me realized that I grew apart from the sport and It wasn 't what I loved anymore. I was more like a job at the end of the day and I couldn 't stand the presser and the stress. In high school I took a lot of engineering classes and I started to enjoy something else then soccer. I came to IPFW to pursue my civil engineering dream. In my spare time I like to play volleyball & soccer

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