Fifth grade is a cardinal year; an important milestone in everyone’s life, especially mine. With the first day approaching, and the warm summer of 2009 coming to a close, many of my peers were bursting from the seams with excitement as well as harmless cockiness; we had earned our positions as the top dogs at Pineville Elementary! With my fresh, glossy folders and binders and notebooks, and an outfit I picked out all by myself ready to go, I assured my mom she didn't have to walk me to my class on the first day. Being a fifth grader now, I couldn't have my mom embarrassing me; she did, however, steal a few quick pictures of me walking into the school. As eager as I felt about being an almost-middle-schooler, fifth grade meant something else to me. From the beginning of time (okay maybe just first grade), the school news show fascinated me. Every Tuesday, our teacher would walk over and turn on the TV in the corner that actually looked like it came from the beginning of time. As a class, every year, every week, every Tuesday, we would watch the 5th graders on the screen, deliver to us the weather, some corny jokes, and my favorite: the “special report”.
A few days into the year, after students warmed up to the newness of everything, our …show more content…
No matter how silly that sounds or sounded to anyone else, it meant a lot to me at the time, and it means a lot to me now; but for a different reason. It means a lot to me now, nearly 8 years later, because I have the same dream. I don’t particularly want to be on an elementary school mock news show (although I’ll take what I can get), but I do aspire to be a journalist, with my whole heart. Just as I made my dream a reality in the fifth grade, I plan on doing the same with my dream now; and when my dreams do come to life, because they will, I intend on carrying them out with the same passion and enthusiasm as I did as Mother Nature in the fifth
A few days into the year, after students warmed up to the newness of everything, our …show more content…
No matter how silly that sounds or sounded to anyone else, it meant a lot to me at the time, and it means a lot to me now; but for a different reason. It means a lot to me now, nearly 8 years later, because I have the same dream. I don’t particularly want to be on an elementary school mock news show (although I’ll take what I can get), but I do aspire to be a journalist, with my whole heart. Just as I made my dream a reality in the fifth grade, I plan on doing the same with my dream now; and when my dreams do come to life, because they will, I intend on carrying them out with the same passion and enthusiasm as I did as Mother Nature in the fifth