Personal Narrative: My Changing Time

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After all this hard work I still didn’t start but I was so determinate to start. So I took my plan to drastic measures and ask the coach what do I got to start. Coach Johnson said, “You are going to have to be patience for almost everything in your life you might as well start now.” He told me I wasn’t ready and I was too childish, but Coach said, “I like your work ethic.” So I had to find out a way to show him that I changed and I wasn’t the same person I was. So when we watched film I went from sitting in the back to sitting and the front. I went from sleeping to paying attention. Coach Johnson ask us, “did we have any questions” and I started asking questions if I had any. Eventually coach seen me as I begun to change over a period of time.

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