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The times we spent at each class, discussing about what success meant to us has allowed me to take a closer look at who I really was, and has made a great impact on myself. Personally, I have never thought about who I really was, nor what I was good or weak at. I always thought it didn’t matter if I was good or bad, but that I can always get better. However, lately, I have been reminded, from the passionate classes Mr. M has spent, talking to us, of our strengths and weaknesses I had, in which made me think of who I was at school, and who I was at home. Was I different? When Mr. M discussed this in class, I knew instantly that I was a different person at home and at school. At home, I am much more lively and outgoing than I am at school. To …show more content…
I also have interest in music. I am a person that absolutely detests waking up early for school. Yet for music, I always get up on time because of my love of music. I love playing in ensembles because throughout the 2-3 minutes our ensemble plays, I feel included and we work as a team to achieve a piece with lots of practice. Music also, opens another gateway for me where I can escape to, when I am feeling down. Therefore, I feel music as another important aspect and interest in my life. Although, the ensembles aren’t as important as school work, I feel as the most important person when I play with my …show more content…
Truthfully, I hated piano, and I still do. I absolutely detest it, because I always got scolded by my teacher. I started to take piano lessons when I was in grade 3. Back then, my brother also learned the piano, and I loved the sound of the piano. Therefore, I always begged my parents that I wanted to take lessons. I went to every single lesson my brother went and watched him play and learn new pieces. Eventually, I got to have my first lesson and it was a dream come true. My teacher told me that I was very talented, and that I could become better than my brother. As time went by, I started to complete and pass through each of the grades. For the first 3 years, I was a very good student. I played all of the pieces my teacher assigned me, and every piano lesson was amazing. However, the next 1 and a half years were horrible. Mainly because I didn’t practice, and I would get scolded by my teacher for not putting effort into my pieces. Through all the troubles my teacher and I’ve been through, I am still continuing to take lessons and I am currently in grade 8, moving on to grade 9. Piano has been the first ever gift, I received from my parents, and this is why, I would never give up on piano. I don’t want to throw away the gift my parents got for me, because I wanted it. Aside from this, piano is another one of my pride and confidence. I participated in competitions and performed in recitals. Strangely, I was never scared of performing in front of
Well, who really am I? Am I rude, strict or obnoxious? Or am I loving and caring? Think and know me better.
There are many things that have molded me into the person I am today such as being born into a family with four children. With three siblings, I have been forced to be able to work out problems from stealing each other’s toys to having to rush to the emergency room to get stiches because my brother chased me around the house and I tripped. My mother, father, brother, and two sisters were all born in Pennsylvania and I am the odd ball and I was born in Adrian, Michigan. From when I was a child I always loved being involved with sports because of my competitive nature. I grew up playing soccer and having success with that but then my love changed and I began playing lacrosse and football. I started playing lacrosse in middle school and played
Music has always been an important part of my life. During high school I have developed areas of service and leadership through interests in children and gardening, which will continue to be major parts of my life.
Identity-“Ones personal qualities.”Identiy is something only he or she can fully define. My uncle says I am affectionate,cheerful, and calm. My grandmother sees me as slim, pretty and sweet. My dad described me as perky, cheerful and happy, my mom says beautiful, gentle, and self-conscious. These adjectives describe me accurately, yet they are only abstract versions of me. Adjectives cannot begin to describe me and I aknowlege these descriptions for what they are, a condensed translation from my outward self to the world. It is impossible for anyone to understand me completely because nobody has experienced the things I have. My mother has never cherished a raggedy doll named Katie and my father never spent hours upon hours making collages and scrap books for his future children. My uncle never hid in the back of a pick-up-truck and traveled four hours to New York and my grandmother has never walked hours in the rain looking for the Queen of England. My identity is something only I can define.
Who I think I am? I’m not exactly sure who I think I am or how to describe who I think I am. I tend to act differently around certain people. Constantly changing to try to seek approval. Constantly in fear of accidentally doing something wrong; that I might say something wrong and all my friends will abandon me or leave me for someone better. I think this fear came from when my best friend was taken from me. I had known her since preschool, but she had met another girl and she stopped talking to me completely. I’m in constant fear that this will happen to me again, so I struggle to be accepted. I don’t want to be forgotten again.
To conclude this, music plays a big role in my life on how I feel and how strong the music is. Music helped me stand up and be where I am right now. It’ll always define for who I am and what I’ve done. Not only did it affect me it also helped me mentally through my time and moments.
Music has absolutely been an enormous part of my life and who I am. However,
Music has always been part of my life since I was young I was active in church musicals, chime group, and the bell choir. Throughout elementary I loved it, listening to music was unsurpassed no matter what the genre. In the sixth grade I mistakenly joined the band and decided to play the trombone, my perception was that the slide made it the preeminent instrument, where I would later learn that it is the greatest. Regrettably, after sixth grade, band took a back seat where I prioritized basketball over the band, this occurred pending my sophomore year where I was forced to discontinue the sport I loved because my skills were not equivalent to what the coach expected. Feeling as if my identity was taken directed me to find my enjoyment for music
Music is the third most important thing to me in life outside of god and my mom. Music keeps me balanced. Every since I was a baby music was played around me. Jazz was always played around me to soothe me. There would be times when I would be really hyper acting like I couldn't sleep, my mom would put on some jazz and I would be fine. A lot of times I can have a long chore and I say to my self how can I accomplish this, Knowing it will take me forever. So I'll put on some jazz music and in twenty-five minutes I'm finished.
What makes me is football, I used to play but I don’t play anymore because I lost interest. I always watch football games though. I like to hang out with my brothers and on the weekends I go with my dad and we hang out at his house. I think that Kutcher is an outstanding man and that the speech he gave was very inspiring to the audience and people watching. The first thing Kutcher says is that there is 3 main things. These are opportunities, being sexy, and living life. When Ashton Kutcher said “The sexiest thing in the entire world is being smart” I agreed. I think that if you are smart, you attract to more people, being smart shows to other people that you are capable of doing anything that you want. But when he said everything around
Music is such a big part of everyone’s life, all for different reasons, and all becoming a part of their lives in different cases. For me, music became a big part of my life through a simple instrument, the viola. I started playing in the fifth grade because that was when I finally made the leap to pick up a new hobby and to see how it would work within my life. After the first couple of years of learning how to play and learning general information about music, I began to fine tune my abilities when playing and I finally was able to see an improvement with me playing the viola. I couldn’t have been any more enthusiastic about music by this point, finally getting through the biggest obstacle when it comes to music, learning it. Now I
I’ve always been interested in music when I was little. I was taught to play guitar, piano, and a recorder and I always listened to a diverse variety of music. When I got to 6th grade I joined the school’s beginning band. I decided to play the flute and I fell into the obsession with it. I practiced every day making sure I would be great at it. I went to a few band competitions over the next 3 years and received superior ratings in solo and ensemble competitions.
In the past twenty years I have experienced different aspects of life that have shaped me into who I am today. I have had personal experiences, moments with friends, and indirect encounters. Each story explained below goes into detail of what occurred how it has shaped me into the student I am and future teacher I am becoming. Experiences throughout life affect the way we teach and the opinions that we can potentially transfer over to our future students.
I am sentimental, out-going, indecisive, understanding, curious, naive, lazy, and young. I want to be ... , well a lot of things, and growing is discovering what they are. I feel people cannot see the potential within, although there is no one to blame but myself. I look to others for approval instead of to myself. I aim to please; it leads to approval. I don’t like to discuss my faults; I pity myself.
“If your dreams don’t scare you, they are not big enough” (Ellen Johnson Sirleaf). My dream is to be a music teacher, and it terrifies me. As more and more schools cut their music programs, there are less opportunities to land a job. More importantly, there are less opportunities for students to find their passion in music. Music is a form of expression when words are not enough. People turn to music for so many reasons. We sing at church and at Christmastime, at weddings and in the car with our friends. We put on our favorite song when we are feeling happy, and sad, slow music when we need a good cry. Music is my passion, and I found it through my educational system. Without it, I have no idea what I would be doing with my life. I know that it will take a lot of dedication and hard work to achieve my dream, but it is well worth it if I can positively impact one child’s life through music the way my music teachers did for me.