There are approximately 397,000 children in foster care in the United States of America currently and I used to be one of them. However, foster had not even been near the forefront of my mind that summer. The summer before I started my first year of high school, I had plenty of anxiety about the tall tale I invented in my own mind that stood before me. Stories about how hard high school were numerous and often regaled on the crowded bus ride home by high schoolers who seemed to have the knowledge of every wise teacher in history combined. which that scared me to death; I had always held my position as a good student who followed the rules of my middle school. School had come easy to me up to this point, but I feared that high school would challenge
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The new friendships I had made taught me how to make friends within diverse groups, something I had never fathomed would happen. New cultural aspects became introduced to me in the small, impoverished neighbourhood as I learned more about Hispanic, African American, and other new culture’s I had not encountered or avidly interacted with before. This interaction with a new population showed me how similar most people are in spite of cultural and physical attributes. An awareness of the world around me formed and I learned I had not realized how much privilege I acquired it while living in the suburbs of Holly Springs and the fortune bestowed upon me to have been born into a white, suburban, Christian family. This extreme life experience taught me how to cope with extreme situations and to stay in control of my own life. Here I learned that we all have to learn from our failures to gain any insight within our life. Living in an impoverished area in the middle of a food desert has assumed its place as one of the most awakening lessons I have learned from the whole experience. Although I only lived there for three months it had taught me some of the most important life lessons one could ever learn in their
The new friendships I had made taught me how to make friends within diverse groups, something I had never fathomed would happen. New cultural aspects became introduced to me in the small, impoverished neighbourhood as I learned more about Hispanic, African American, and other new culture’s I had not encountered or avidly interacted with before. This interaction with a new population showed me how similar most people are in spite of cultural and physical attributes. An awareness of the world around me formed and I learned I had not realized how much privilege I acquired it while living in the suburbs of Holly Springs and the fortune bestowed upon me to have been born into a white, suburban, Christian family. This extreme life experience taught me how to cope with extreme situations and to stay in control of my own life. Here I learned that we all have to learn from our failures to gain any insight within our life. Living in an impoverished area in the middle of a food desert has assumed its place as one of the most awakening lessons I have learned from the whole experience. Although I only lived there for three months it had taught me some of the most important life lessons one could ever learn in their