Personal Narrative: Early Childhood Obstacles

My life started off a few months earlier than it should have. That was a very early obstacle that I don’t even remember. It is speculated that being a premature baby might have caused any of the early childhood obstacles that I encountered. As far as I remember, the first few years of my life were fine. In kindergarten, according to my dad, I was very talkative and liked to help kids with “subjects that I excelled in, such as spelling”. In the summer of 2005, my mother came down with breast cancer, and she died from it in the subsequent winter, just around the new year. I was only five to six years old. It was a very long time ago, so I barely even remember it. I grieved for a little bit but then moved on, as one should. Ever since then, it’s …show more content…
The summer after I completed kindergarten, I enrolled in the Horizons Enrichment Program at New Canaan Country School, where I have been deeply involved since. Back at school after that, I had trouble making some friendships due to some shyness. That was only a relatively minor obstacle for me. When placed in environments where I don’t know anyone, I like to observe first and figure out which people are good and which could be trouble. I also observe to see what their interests may be. If our interests match, it is really easy from there to make a friendship. Third grade was an important change because I transferred to a magnet elementary school which took in smarter people. I did well socially there and made a few friendships that still exist today. I struggled academically with some reading and writing skills and received assistance for that through programs like IEP. Despite that, they somehow accepted me into the academically talented …show more content…
This puts me in classes with fewer troublemakers and with people who care about their future and education. In junior year, I enrolled at Norwalk Community College for free through the High School Partnership Program. At NCC, I took a course in Computer Networking but found it to be way too challenging. That is when I decided that the whole idea of a computer science major is not for me.
Currently, I am interested in pursuing a degree in broadcast journalism or some related field. This is because of the classes that I have taken in junior year, such as broadcast journalism, where we produce short stories for the school’s news show. It is also due to the great journalism that I have been exposed to through listening to NPR and the BBC countless times in the car and at home.
I am taking my second college level course at NCC, Sociology 101, which is far easier and more interesting than Networking. Over 17 years, I have transformed from a premature baby to an elementary school kid that didn’t talk much to a 17-year old mature teenager who won’t stop talking and wants to get into communications out of all