The Importance Of Growing Up In Foster Care

No doubt, growing up in foster care is difficult for any child, especially when you are the oldest of seven children. Your siblings well being is a constant concern in the forefront of the mind, even placed before personal happiness. Multiple homes and lacking a consistent reality can break you down emotionally and make you feel as small as rice. Making the conscious decision to grow from your personal adversities is rewarding, fulfilling, and makes one realize their true self worth. I personally know what it is like to feel very small, but continue to work hard, not only to better myself but to set an example for the people around me including my younger siblings. Foster homes are crowded, loud, and they constantly make you feel like you are being overlooked. It takes a lot of strength and inner trust to keep pushing yourself towards the right path and continue to focus on a better future. I have struggled every day to stay in school and stay motivated to make a better life for myself. Thankfully, something inside my heart kept me going. I take pride in certain personality traits that I have learned to posses. Once my inner fire has been lit nothing has the ability to extinguish it, except myself is I choose. I have been told on multiple occasions that I push myself too hard and that I expect

I had finally settled into living on my own and was doing well adjusting from my life in the foster system. I went to PIMA Medical Institute to speak with the admissions counselor, who worked out a schedule for me and had my classes starting two weeks from that meeting. I committed myself to the next step of my education. The only exception I gave myself were the breaks from school and studying that I used to work two jobs as a server at Red Robin and Chili’s Bar and Grill. I worked day and night, ending my vocational course with a 3.7