Personal Narrative: My Journey Away From High School

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She had a dream and she achieved it It’s not like it was one day I woke up and decide that I was going to graduate early from high school. It took dedication thought and time and prayers. I wanted this since my freshman year. But then life happen and the journey began. My freshman year was from normal at all I got bullied and got sent away from my family. I was a trouble child, I got into the wrong crowd and I was a cutter because of the bulling. My freshman year I never thought I would make it to become a senior, why because I got sent away and I had to go to a program so I could get clean and handle life. Victory village was not a normal place it was where they treated you harsh so you would get clean quicker. This place taught me that you can’t be a little kid anymore you have to grow up and not depend on nobody. They gave me the choice to do a year program or go to jail. I decide that I would to the program so I could get home. During this time I actually mad friends and I felt alive because I was surrounded by people who were deal with the same problems as me. At …show more content…
And what I want to do is graduate early and do something better with my life I might be rushing to some but in my option mine not. I’m actually happy. And I plan on getting done by May of 2016. People have asked me if it was because of Irving Reyes that I want to leave the high school and my answer is no. What is the real reason I want to graduate is my grandfather who lives in Texas won’t make it after this year and ever since I was a little he made a promised he would watch me walk across the staged graduate early. After the doctors told me he wonted live much longer I had to stop and think and put things in my hand and realize that I really want him to watch me cross the stage so I have to graduate early there was no choice. This is what I told them and this is the

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