Personal Narrative: My Junior Year In Puerto Rico

An interesting event that happened in my life that seem bad, but turned out good was attending my junior year and senior year in Puerto Rico. Reminiscing back to when I walked into the halls of Lysander Borrero Terry all I could hear were little voices speaking in Spanish. I could understand what everyone was saying, but I was so confused on why everyone was only speaking in Spanish. As I started my first day of school at the end of the day I came to realize that all my classes were in Spanish and that’s when I felt like I wasn’t able to do it because all I could do is understand and speak slang Spanish. As weeks went by students started to bully me and make fun of me because I couldn’t speak proper Spanish, write or read it. Not only didn’t the students believe in me, but my director didn’t either. I didn’t let them put fear into my heart because I knew what I was capable of and what I was not capable of. This only pushed me to succeed even if it was going to be a challenge. To tell the truth my junior year was horrible, I would fail every informal assignment there was, but I didn’t let that stop me from moving forward with my education. One thing for sure is that it wasn’t easy especially when I had writing and reading …show more content…
I was not scared to ask any questions when I needed to or I wasn’t scared to ask for help during or after school. I started to get nothing but A’s or B’s on all my work; as graduation got closer I was eligible to cross the stage. Graduation day came and when the director acknowledge my name on stage to receive my diploma on stage she began to cry and tell me how proud she was after all. She apologized for being ignorant and not seeing potential in me. When I crossed the stage with my diploma in my hands all the students stood up from theirs chairs and screamed “you did it Eunice.” I was more proud of myself than anyone could ever