Eight Years Research Paper

My past eight years have been a learning experience. Eight years ago I was just beginning first grade. In the first grade I was in a unstable living environment full of drunks and unstable people. I was a happy child trying to fit in with people around me. It was difficult because I would change schools every year and would move around a lot to many different living environments. I learned that I was going to have to raise myself and so I did just with a little help from the people that were around me.
I have had many friends and enemies over the years. I went from being very open minded and happy to closed minded and very curious. When I was in the sixth grade was when first realized that I would need new influences and change my ways. I write this because I was starting slipping in class and my grades were dropping from B’s to D’s. I didn’t really care at first until I my coach saw my grades and wouldn’t let me play any in any games until I got them up .

I reflected on my behavior and my school year, my friends at the time were very funny and talkative but they got good grades.

I remember when I was in about 4th grade and my teacher was very in shock that I had gotten trouble and had gave me an entire lecture and at the time it just went in one ear and out the other. I didn’t really care because at that specific time I felt as no one understood me. My teacher Mrs.Miller said “ Necie, you are a smart child you know whats right from wrong. If you choose wrong then you will be known for all the wrong doings you have done and forget how good of a child you are.” Now that I’m older and reflect back on what she said I realized that she did care for me because she was check on me every morning and check if I was going to have a good day. They weren’t affecting my grades I was. I would love to stay at the park and hang with friends but I had to cut that down and start doing my homework before I go

outside.
I have made many mistakes in life and have had to change my ways and sometimes I don’t those lessons so seriously and I would continue to do things that would get me in trouble. I have gotten suspended just because of the people I hang around and how I react to certain things. In my past years, I have dealt with anger issues. There were many ways to calm down but I didn’t really want to try so, I would blow up at the most littlest of things. Things didn’t change until the summer of two-thousand seventeen. I had decided that my eighth grade year was going to be different so I developed peaceful skills to stay out of trouble. You have to want to change before someone does, or you will always back to your old ways. You have to remember that everyone is not good for you.