English Essay About Myself

accept my mistakes and use it to improve myself. In your class you allow test retakes. You taught me that it is okay if I mess up at the beginning. As long as I learn and improve from my mistakes, that's all it matters in terms of success. 3) What do you most enjoy doing; what are you passionate about? 
I enjoy talking to different people and learning about their cultures. I think it is interesting to learn about people that are different from myself.…

Once, during a team dinner, everybody started talking about the upcoming school year. The biggest topic was who would be in each other’s classes. When the faces at the table turned to me, it was my queue to list the courses I was taking. “Advanced English, Advanced Geometry, World History 1…” I began going through my schedule, when someone interrupted me. “Izzy,” they said, “you’re a lot smarter than you look.” What a curse. Throughout my life I have always tried to be the confident,…

Highly pompous for a 14 year old failing English, yet at the time it was conducive to the lonely lifestyle I wanted to achieve. Fortunately, I out grew this isolating mindset that led to explore and adopt new methods of living. Ridding myself from that debilitating mindset to work a job that required me to directly interact with kids everyday. Before the experience, kids were oddities that…

learning the language.was a struggle for me. I was not able to express myself the way I wanted, and not being able to communicate with others and defend myself in where I was the victim, motivated me to more to learn the language. Eventually I was able to overcome the language obstacle, and become more independent. I did not have to rely on others to stand up for me, or to show pity on me just because I could not speak English as fluently and efficiently as them. My desire to learn the language…

Being a native speaker of an expressive language as Spanish it becomes common to find myself in situations when there are no words in English to express what I truly mean. This is the reason of why I found myself attracted towards the German language, it is descriptive and explicit, with specific words for the most specific situations. There is a word in German that describes the impulsive will to visit a place one had never been. The word is fernweh and it expresses the feeling of missing a…

Everybody has faced a challenge before, like “bullying.” At anytime, everyone has faced it, as they were kids, teenagers, and as adults. As like me, I was called names, I use to get beaten up and I usually returned them back. I did not let myself get too much hurt. Bullying has changed me, it changed the way I was living before and the way I was before. Bullying did not only changed me, it changed other ones. One of my worst experiences about bullying was when I was in Elementary School…

I view myself as being independent and very capable. I know that gender stereotypes can influence how a woman specifically views herself in terms of being successful in what is deemed as masculine roles or leadership positions (Davis et al, 2005). Therefore, I am even more thankful to my family for not pushing those implicit rules into me but for allowing me to grow into a strong person. I have had to fix my worldview because I realized that women or girls in developing countries are not always…

comforting as I was huddled together with my sister and my parents, where we were all ready to face the "new world". I was soon placed into an elementary school where I had to assimilate with the kids and learn English. Picking up English was the easy part, as I was able to learn English in a few months but assimilating with the kids was the hard part. I did not know how to act with all the other kids at school, and this led to me not really connecting with the other kids. Most of the friends I…

Early in the semester, I created a goal for myself regarding teaching English. My goal was to create a collection of resources that I can use in the future to support students who struggle with reading by the end of the semester. The various assessment I have completed as part of EDUC4702 has allowed me to further my understanding of struggling readers and help me begin to meet my goal. Research that I have undertaken has also helped me determine high quality resources to include in my portfolio…

also I was the only one that drives, but I made a way to take an English course. Studying was the word that I woke up every day in my mind, I just could not admit to abandon my dreams and I did not do it. As Confucius stated “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”…