Personal Narrative: Heather Hills

Parting is such sweet sorrow. Over the past 17 years, I’ve found myself saying goodbye to a myriad of both people and places. Of course, the vast majority of the locations and faces I’ve encountered bear no deep significance to me today and are forgotten. However, there are certain places that are able to trigger an inundation of memories for me. One such place in my life has been Heather Hills Elementary School. Heather Hills was a school I attended for hardly a year; nevertheless, it is a location that bears the ability to engender endless memories of blissful nostalgia as well as spite and regret. Heather Hills signifies a period in my life when my potential could not have been higher as well as a period when my entire future was in jeopardy. Moreover, Heather Hills not only signifies the shaping of my young mind, …show more content…
During my time at Heather Hills, I had the privilege of having a plethora of devoted teachers who truly wished to see me succeed. These teachers latched onto the slightest promises of intelligence that my fifth-grade self could exhibit, and tenderly nurtured the minimal skills that I had into a student who, at the time, performed at the top of his class. Heather Hills was a place in which I was enabled to flourish as a student. It was within the walls of the school that I was able to accomplish all manner of academic achievement, ranging from a regional math championship to being an honorable mention in the school’s “Write a Book” competition. Because the school facilitated these competitions, I was provided with a method by which I could accomplish things I never believed I could. Heather Hills provided an environment where I was encouraged to exceed all prior notions that I had about my intellectual limits. For me, Heather Hills saw a period in my life where my ambition for academics was piqued more than it has ever been