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I faced many challenges that affected my achieve in school but the one challenge tjat change my life , is when I failed first grade. When I first came to America I could not speak, write or understand English . As time pass I began to understand , and speak English , but I still struggled in school. I struggled so much to the point that I failed first grade. I knew my parents were going to be so disappointed with me, that's what hurt me the most. After failing the first grade I became very depressed , and I even felt worthless. I soon learned that I had to work twice as hard as my classmates in order to be as good as them and three times harder to be better then my classmates. After I realized that I am not worthless I started doing really

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