Growing up in African was difficult. I was there till I was 10 years old, moving from a different family member each year to find a place that would be suitable for me to be successful at school. I am not one of those kids that education came to easily, I used to hate going to school. I hated the fact that I was always the last person to get the right answer in class and that is if I did get the answer right at all. I hated the fact what I could never talk to my friends about how I was doing in…
honor roll and high honor lists, I participated in a lot of extracurricular activities at Joliet West High School- I was in Choir, Speech Team, Chess Team, Scholastic Bowl, Leo club, and Key club, and my future plans after high school involve me going to Joliet Junior College for two years where I am going to try to get a GPA around 3.8 and 4.0 or higher so, I can get accepted to a very good school like Yale University and Georgetown University where I was thinking about having a major in…
are all headed down the same path to the same ending unless there is an angel hiding in the darkness along the way that will show us to the light at the end of the painful tunnel. I have suffered from a eating disorder, anorexia to be exact, for 4 years and even I have issues bring it up or opening up to people. Its hard even though I have accepted it. Other than my parents and therapists, less than 10 people know out of my family…
Charles. To me, music is a huge part of my life, just like breathing. Playing music is also a big part of me. I started playing music in the fifth grade, and give me the chance to do it again, I wouldn’t change a thing. At the end of my fourth grade year, high school students came to my elementary school and talked about band. At first, I didn’t care one ounce, but then they brought out their instruments and played a little bit. I was hooked from there on. I went home that night and told my…
only numbers, finishing a math problem before my classmates and also helping my fellow classmates. When I think about math in my early years, I realized how easy and uncomplicated the subject was. However, things became more challenging for me when I reached the higher elementary grades, high…
impact on the public school. Then in the eight grade we read the Hobbit which was a really good read and also did some poetry with the must we listen too, which in all honesty I enjoyed. After the Hobbit I backed up from reading for the rest of the year cause I didn’t know what to read…
statue, Mount Rushmore, Disneyland, and the Redwood National park. We picked up Lon along the way, in Kansas City, Kansas, where he was living at the time. My family and I moved him into a house in Spokane, Washington, where we also moved for two short years. I went to two new schools while living there-as I was in between 6th and 7th grade (Most schools in the east side of Washington have 6th in elementary and 7th as the start of middle school)-which was different for me because I had not been…
5th grade, I attended Franklinton Elementary School in Franklinton, North Carolina. When I first started going to school at FES, I noticed that much of the material being taught I already learned last year. I was not sure if southern schools liked to do a lot of review or they literally were a year behind with their curriculm. Whichever one it was placed me back with the most advanced individuals of my peers. I finally enjoyed school once again. The North Carolina teachers were so warm and…
parents attempt to provide are philosophical. Most commonly the lesson today consist of ignoring societal biases, and become our own person. We also have become people that desire to celebrate more frequently. We celebrate many holidays such as new years, Martin Luther King Day, Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, and…
reading and writing haves always seemed like a chore to me, and it doesn’t seem like my view on that is going to change anytime soon. First, starting before it all started, was preschool. There I learned the very basics, as would be expected from a 4-year-old kid just learning how to handle the demands of school; although, it wasn’t very demanding back then. With it being preschool, there really wasn’t too much reading, and there wasn’t any writing. However, moving along into the early stages…