Overcoming Obstacles That Changed My Life

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In life, everyone seems to face unwanted obstacles. These obstacles are the cause of all the twists and turns people experience. Like most challenges in life, mine came unexpected and would change both myself and my life in ways I couldn’t imagine. At my former University, I was part of the cheerleading team, this allowed me to develop friendships with certain football players. One night my best friend and I decided to hang out with one of our friends on the team. Later that night, we all ended up falling asleep. I woke up to him sexually assaulting both my best friend and myself. After this happens, we both were scared and confused on what we should. The next day, in need of major advice I turned to my close friends on the cheerleading team …show more content…

It was the girlfriend of the guy that had assaulted me. She started yelling and treating to physically assault me. When I hung up the phone about thirty minutes later I heard a knock on my dorm room door. My roommate opened the door and it was the female that had pervious called me. She walked into my room and had seemed to calm down and I started to explain the night the sexual assault happened. Then about five minutes into the conversation she randomly jumps on my bed where I was sitting and started to punch me rapidly in my head. After she was done attacking me she quickly ran out my room. Once she left I had to report the physical assault to the campus police this then lead for the sexual assault to be brought to light. Weeks past after that night and the university finally made a decision of what would happen about the two assaults. The school had decided that the male would not be suspended from campus because they felt the assault never happen since the incident was not reported imminently after. Also, the female was not suspended from campus because they did not find her as a threat although I had to go to the hospital the night I was

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