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Although high school was over for me in June 2009, I still think about the memories of my freshman, sophomore, and junior years. In these first three years of my high school experience I did not participate in school activities except drama club and a beauty pageant. I regret my decision of not participating in clubs, or going to the sport games, and not attending events in school. I would go back and change this decision for many reasons. Not participating in school resulted in me not meeting as many classmates as I could have. Also, it became hard for me to fill out college applications, because I did not have anything to state in the school activities section. Finally, not participating in school for the first three years will result in me not being able to share many high school experience in the future with my family. I would change my decision of not participating in school because I did not meet as many classmates as I could have. High school is a time to be focused on schoolwork; however, it is also a time to interact and make new friends. I met most of my friends through...
As a child I was not in to many sports or involved in school activities. Going through high school I figured out that being involved in a sport or a school club would make my high school experience better. The first and only sport I chose to do was track. Track changed my whole high school experience and life. I learned to never give up, and it kept me out of trouble throughout my four years of high school.
Regretfully, when I entered high school I did not realize how hard I had to work to get what I wanted. I went to my classes, did my work, but never really pushed myself to my full abilities. I thought that as long as I graduated with decent grades I would be able to get into college and really focus then. But as high school quickly came to an end I realized that I was not as well prepared for college, as I would have liked.
High school was not a completely dreadful experience, but I did not get a really an exceptional education. As I entered high school, I thought it would be a whole new exciting chapter in my life. I started out as an involved student, and went through all of the Advance Placement and Honor classes, and managed to be at the top 12% of my class. In high school, I basically placed myself to enjoy it; I joined all of the extra curricular activities I was interested in. I was in band, tennis, swimming, dance team, and Key Club. Sometimes I was at school for about fourteen hours a day, four times a week.
I have to admit that I will not look fondly on my high school career. I spent most of my study time going out with my friends. I felt that I was paying my dues with the eight hours of boredom that began most of my days. Until now there were only a few classes that I enjoyed. In retrospect, I believe that it was my inability to choose the classes I took which resulted in my lack of enthusiasm on the ride to school each morning.
My High School life has helped shape the way for my college experiences that I will face. My senior year in high school is not the same as many other high school students. I am taking many advanced classes to help me prepare for college. These classes help me better understand exactly how much harder I must work to succeed.
I have chosen to write my personal narrative about my life and my experiences. I want to write about my kids, husband, mom, dad , brother, and nephew. These people play a important roll in my life. My family and god is what keeps me going. I have a ten year old boy he is my first born.
High school was a time when my friends and I got into vices and violence. Many of my friends started to experiment with drugs and alcohol because they were easy to access. Another group of friends was making a profit from selling drugs. I fell into to peer pressure, however I looked for brighter
Over the last 15 years of my life, I’ve learned countless lessons from my mistakes, as life began to slowly hit me harder and harder each year. I learned how to be more confident, to be kind, to build my own self-esteem, to care and be compassionate towards others, but most of all, to be mentally and emotionally strong. During my years of childhood, I was plagued with shyness at a young age. I had the troubling tendency to hide behind my mother when meeting new people, or never raise my hand in class due to the embarrassment of potentially saying the incorrect answer. This became a problem for me, as I wanted to interact and mingle with others, however, my shyness caused me to miss many opportunities of making new friends or meeting new people.
PART ONE – My life before I accepted Christ I grew up in Honduras with my mom and my younger sister; because my dad came to the United States when I was 2 years old. My family was Catholic and we believed in God in our own way. However, I felt empty, I felt that my life had no meaning and it hurt that my dad had not been with me. Many times I questioned God, because he had to let bad things happen to good people. So, I decided that there was no point be good because whatever life was going to mistreat us.
Wake up, vomit, sleep, repeat. This was my routine schedule one summer in India. But first a step back and a look into my beautiful culture. My ethnicity is Indian. My parents immigrated to the US before I was born.
There is a point in everyone’s life when they step back and realize “I can’t do this anymore, it’s ruining my life”. Many of my friends have started smoking cigarettes while drinking at a very young age, and continue to use this drug currently and don’t realize the affect it has on their future. While I have been smart enough to avoid smoking, I haven’t been as wise at making decisions when it comes to drinking. The amount of partying I’ve done in college has taken over my life, and has had a huge impact on my grades. Changing my drinking habits and continuing to avoid cigarettes will enable me to be the best I can be for the rest of my college experience.
I would attend the school pep rallies, football games, join the school powerlifting club, and school dances like Homecoming and Prom. Although these annual school events were fun and memorable, volunteering for community service hours holds a special relationship with me. It helped me realize my passion for helping people in a socially and physical way. This passion accompanied with my hobby of exercising led me to pursue the career of a physical therapist. In general, the experiences and lessons that I’ve adopted in American Canyon High School was truly life changing, and I’m grateful for it everyday.
High school has been a very interesting experience for me. It has definitely had its highs and lows and many confusing experiences in between. Overall, I feel like I have been equipped for not only college, but also life as a whole. High school has taught me many things, both academically and emotionally. It has revealed and exposed my true colors, both good and bad, and as a result, has built many aspects of my character. My experiences at Alameda High school and Alameda Community Learning Center have shaped me into the person that I am today.
By the time the end of my junior year rolled around I was ready to get away, so I enrolled in the Running Start program. I felt I had outgrown all that school activities had to offer and I wanted to just get on with my life. But as many teachers have clearly demonstrated over the last four years; you never get too old or too mature to have a little fun in high school. It took me this year to realize this. It was around homecoming that I started to feel a little left out.
My early experiences as a student had little effect on shaping my life. I was too young and too apathetical to have any sincere interest in my education at that point. I remember more about President Reagan bombing Libya and the television miniseries “V” then I do about my first years of school.