Legacy Early High School-Personal Narrative

It was in early June of 2006, a pleasant, exciting Saturday evening. One hundred of us sit anxiously, one after the other, in cold metal chairs in the cafeteria of my elementary school. We wore purple silky gowns. We wait nervously for our names. Once all our names are called, we wait patiently for what happens next, and look for our parents faces, we had just heard that we were the 2006 graduating kindergarten class at Elgin Elementary. For all of us, this was the beginning of everything we’d wondered about. Quickly, I find my mother, the photographer, and hug her excitedly. She is a tall woman who never falters, as if she were a building, never moving, she stood soundly. In her shiny shirt, she looks like a real professional and a proud …show more content…
One of the biggest things that she has helped me accomplish in my life by not letting me settle because I was too scared to go outside of my comfort zone is making me interview to get into my current high school. For the minute she heard about Legacy Early College High School, she was hooked. When I asked her about her point of view from when we heard about Legacy and the events that ensued after such as filling out the application and the interview, this is what she remembered, “ I remember us sitting in Jalisco’s talking to Violet and she told us about the school she was sending her daughter to. It was an early college school in Taylor. I was really excited about it and you were not. I went home and looked it up on the Internet and noticed that we had missed the deadline. Luckily for us, we were still able to apply because it had been extended and soon we got a call for an interview. You didn’t want to go so I gave you the options of either moving or going to Legacy. You were nervous when you interviewed, but you ultimately did very well. You started your freshman year that fall and since then you have been glad that I “forced” you to go. It really was the best decision.” Having my mom push me to do something like this was very foreign to me; I had always been in the same school district with the same people I went to kindergarten with. Going to …show more content…
Because you know you gave birth to me, though not really because I was a cesarean. However, you have helped shape me into who I am today. Since I grew up with basically only you as my parent, you had the primary influence on me and because of that I turned out pretty good (don’t mean to toot my own horn). Unlike most parents, you did it your own way. You made me make decisions for myself. By having me do that you gave me a sense of self-reliability and great decision making skills. Because of you I was never a thoughtless child who had my parent make every decision for me or were one that couldn’t do anything for myself. I’ve gained a different point of view on the world than my siblings because they were weren’t only raised by