Sharndip Singh
Essay 1 (Narrative)
Average or Below Average?
First Grade After taking a decent amount of my pictures of me on the first day of school, my mom finally decided to start walking me to Jefferson Elementary. Jefferson had this really tall principle and this Asian teacher that never got along with me. I got in trouble for all kinds of things, from lying to the teacher about why I didn’t do my homework to coloring the carpet with crayons during story time. All in all, I loved pigging out at lunch time and going on the monkey bars during recess which I remember falling from and spraining my wrist one time.
Six Grade When I first set foot on Leroy F. Greene, which was known in the area as a “ghetto” middle school, I met some people there who loved to wear the color red to …show more content…
While most of my classmates and friends took senior year easy by getting a modified schedule in order to leave school early, I was making up classes I needed in order to get my high school diploma. I did what I needed to get done so I could graduate high school and be the first one in my family who would go to college and get a degree. Being involved in every school activity was very important to me along with everyone else because we knew it would all be over soon. Whether it was just a high school football game or dances like homecoming and prom, I made sure I was there being involved and having a good time. Walking down that football field with my cap and gown was a dream come true. For some people graduating high school is no big deal and for some it is the marking point and beginning of a new chapter in there in life. For me, graduation day was the proudest day of my life. The difficulties and the mistakes I made/fixed just made the day feel even better. I knew people had questioned my capabilities and proving them wrong was a feeling like no
Essay 1 (Narrative)
Average or Below Average?
First Grade After taking a decent amount of my pictures of me on the first day of school, my mom finally decided to start walking me to Jefferson Elementary. Jefferson had this really tall principle and this Asian teacher that never got along with me. I got in trouble for all kinds of things, from lying to the teacher about why I didn’t do my homework to coloring the carpet with crayons during story time. All in all, I loved pigging out at lunch time and going on the monkey bars during recess which I remember falling from and spraining my wrist one time.
Six Grade When I first set foot on Leroy F. Greene, which was known in the area as a “ghetto” middle school, I met some people there who loved to wear the color red to …show more content…
While most of my classmates and friends took senior year easy by getting a modified schedule in order to leave school early, I was making up classes I needed in order to get my high school diploma. I did what I needed to get done so I could graduate high school and be the first one in my family who would go to college and get a degree. Being involved in every school activity was very important to me along with everyone else because we knew it would all be over soon. Whether it was just a high school football game or dances like homecoming and prom, I made sure I was there being involved and having a good time. Walking down that football field with my cap and gown was a dream come true. For some people graduating high school is no big deal and for some it is the marking point and beginning of a new chapter in there in life. For me, graduation day was the proudest day of my life. The difficulties and the mistakes I made/fixed just made the day feel even better. I knew people had questioned my capabilities and proving them wrong was a feeling like no