Growing up I was the second child, my sister and I was seven years apart. My childhood days consisted of me sitting in my room playing with my toys. I only played with other children, if my cousins came over. I was very different; I was a tall boy with short hair. I didn’t like the skin I was in too much, because I always got picked on in school.…
For most students, the transition from middle school to high school is the evolution from childhood to adulthood. In my case, my middle school graduation was a quick transition for another reason. The first few months of my freshman year had my parents rushing my grandfather in and out of the hospital because of his failing heart. By this point my grandfather had battled off colon cancer, 3 heart attacks, and 2 open heart surgeries. At age 74 he was not a candidate for a heart transplant but he was able to get a defibrillator.…
I was 10 years old. I looked from the edge of the mat, unaware about the endeavor I was about to take the moment my foot touched that mat. I finally decided to walk on, like they had taught me by bowing, it was the first of a near million times I was going to do this. I was a white belt, at the best taekwondo centers in the area. All the kids, stood to the side eerily silent, waiting for instructions.…
The rest of the year was great to me, I finally saw the rainbow. I gained many new friends and I was/am doing fairly well in my classes. I overcame an obstacle of mine that was really large, and I am proud of myself for doing so. I finally got to see what it looks like when the clouds part. I went from being a stress mess to a straight success (maybe not success yet, but soon).…
I noticed that it was getting easier to talk to people without being too awkward in conversation. I started to take risks and open myself up as a person, regardless of the reactions of those around me. I realized sometime in my ninth grade year that I had always been this way, I was too scared to embrace it. This is something I consider one of my greatest failures, but also my greatest development. My younger years were difficult due to a combination of my parents struggling to pay bills and providing for my sister and me, lacking academic determination which kept me a B student for too long, and having no confidence in any personal social interaction.…
In the seventh grade, I faced a large transition in life. The previous year I had experienced middle school for the first time, but I would make that entrance again. I moved from Texas to North Dakota, where seventh grade was the first year of middle school. I took on those same fears and hopes that I had faced before, but in an unfamiliar place where I had no one except for family to give me support. I tried a lot of new things that year, mainly wrestling.…
I was eight years old, shy but bright, and excelling in the second grade. Though I did not expect it, big change was about to come. One day in March as I was waiting for my mother to pick me up from school, Ms. Allen, my teacher, told me she would need to talk to my mom for a minute before we left. "…
1.) I won't procrastinate that often as much as I did back in middle school. I can stop doing this by completing or working on assignments the day that I'm assigned them. I can also fix this by not being lazy. 2.)…
“Koen?” Mr. Blume, my sixth grade teacher read off the roll sheet. “Here!” Koen said as he raised his hand. It was the first day of my sixth grade year.…
Through time and my love for music and boys in punk rock bands, I learned a lot about myself and I even changed how I acted towards people just…
Back in Middle School on a class trip, a group of my friends were engaging in an activity late at night that I knew was against the rules. They assumed that nobody had seen them although my roommates and I were fully aware of the situation. It was tough to decide whether to tell an adult what they did because of the possible punishments that could affect my friends. I figured that I would give them a day to come forward themselves and do the right thing, but they did not. The next day I told one of the teachers what happened and they later had a meeting with all of those involved.…
For the first five years of elementary school, I attended the small school located at the back of our church’s property. Enrollment ranged from about 10-15 students in 1st through 8th grade. The last three years of my grade school experience were spent attending Lodi Seventh-day Adventist Elementary. This school went from kindergarten to 8th grade and fed into Lodi Academy, so in all, kindergarten through 12th grade! I came from a small, two-room school, and seeing as I was not very accustomed to being with such a large body of students, suddenly becoming immersed in a class with more students than that of my entire old school was definitely intriguing!…
School life has changed me in many ways. Whether it be the expectations of school or what actions happen in school everyday. A lot of us teenagers tend to get very distracted, and we always want to be accepted. Sometimes we try to hard to be liked and that can lead to bad pathways. The bad habits that take place in school have changed me and also the good things.…
Everybody changes within time, some for the good and some for the bad. I on the other hand changed for the best. About 5 years ago, I was a careless sophomore at Crestwood High School. I never cared about anything that involved school; homework, tests,…
What changed me into a good person I was starting to realize everything I did which the day my dad gave me full day lesson learned. All these years that I was going through I looked back and wonder how bad I turned when I would hang out who you call “friends. “ I was so much in danger and in bad health. Which made me wake up and start changing my life again. What my parents did to change my life around again was that they talked to me and said if I want to be kicked out into the streets if that's what I wanted.…