A Significant Challenge Analysis

There are many challenges in my life that I never thought I would accomplish. A significant challenge that I thought I wouldn’t have accomplished was getting my STNA. I was only a young pup when I wanted to help people. I started working at a nursing home when I turned 15, and I loved it but I couldn’t do hands on care just yet. I had to take a four week class and take a state test to get certified. My class started the Monday after my last day of Junior year. The teacher was a friend of my family, so I’m glad I knew somebody. I marched down to the basement to begin my learning. I knew some of the things that we were being taught, but I felt awkward because it was mostly older women. Just a few young girls, and one guy named Edward. He was a little different but as time went on we began to really get to know each other. I enjoyed getting up early to go to class, but the whole time I was dreading taking that state test. I am not a very good test taker so I did not have confidence in myself. I kept saying …show more content…
Saturday morning, I got up and prepared myself, saying that I was going to pass, when in the back of my mind I didn’t think that. I arrived and all my classmates were waiting in the room just like I was. We waited for the state testers to arrive and we began. The testers made sure we were who we said we are, and they split us all up into two groups. One group to do the hands on part first, and the second group to take the big test first. The hands on part went very smoothy, me being in the group to do that first. Then came the written. I tried to calm myself down, and said that I was going to do just fine.
It turned out, I got almost 100% on my written test, and passed the hands on with flying colors. I spent so much time putting myself down, saying that I couldn’t do it, but look what the end result was. Now I get to work doing hands on things, helping people. This was a very big challenge for me, and I got through