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Things must go on Back in my sophomore year, during the second most important time of the year, the midterms, something major occurred in my life that would change my highschool life and perhaps my whole worldview, my dad had a stroke. I came to America when i was 3-4 years old, I had come from a small country to the east of India called Bangladesh. Coming to a new country during that time really changed me. I had no friends in America like I had in Bangladesh and because of my initial language barrier, I could not make many new friends. My Dad at that time was working for nights and days trying to pay off debt from college and providing for us. As such, I would only see my dad only once or twice a day. So I never really developed a solid father-son relationship with him. Not to mention he wasn't even there when I was born because he was studying at America. My mom on the other hand was always there, but she did not have the imagination of a kid or the energy to keep up with me. Still I found ways to have some fun during my childhood years, whether it be playing with toys or watching television. When I had begun school I had no Ideas on how things worked or how the customs of dealing with people where, I was …show more content…
When I had walked into the suffocatingly white hospital room, my eyes immediately fell upon the white hospital bed, white white, everything was white, save from my dad who contrasted deeply with the white with his dark brown skin. There was a deep sadness in his eyes along with a tinge of frustration. My little sister ran up to my dad and started crying. My dad could not move the right side of his body. My dad also started crying, something I had never seen before. He was a strong man, providing for his whole family including the family in bangladesh. Although he could speak very well he was a man of action, not moving his right side must have been a very huge blow to his mind and
...ademic hardships. Even though I lost so much during junior year, I was unaware of the fact that secretly I was actually gaining a great deal of life experiences and real-life lessons for the future. Quite honestly I feel lucky. I feel lucky that I matured early in life; with this new maturity I feel I can accomplish anything. I feel I can make a positive difference in this world. I feel like this experience will be the primary step in my success, in terms of my career, and in the launch of my Children in Need campaigns in third world countries. I feel like the young superman who just learned how to fly, slightly aware of his magnificent impact towards the world. In short, I feel junior year provided foundation for the more mature and adult chapters of my life, and without the numerous obstacles of junior year, I would never gained the key to a successful future.
Middle school was a amazing experience, for me anyway. I, myself have changed tremendously from the beginning of 6th grade to the end of 8th grade. Not just in appearance either, on the inside as well.
Throughout my four years in high school I have been fortunate enough to fulfill many of my aspirations and my thirst for knowledge. One goal that I would like to achieve is to become an international attorney. I have aligned my involvement in specific academic and extra-curricular activities to aid me preparing for the long road between my present situation and the day I pass the bar exam. Through my high school activities I have learned three virtues that I have deemed necessary to achieve my goal, passion, self-discipline, and perseverance.
I was told that this, my junior year, would be the easiest year of my high school career. And no, they were absolutely wrong. It was not just school and grades that I was concern about either. I had other things to worry about, things like, driving, clubs, friends and family. I however had no idea that it would be this difficult. Throughout this school year I have learned many things; like the value of sleep, whose really your friend, and that although very important, grades are not everything.
Before I enrolled into SAC, I was a non-fan of sports, nervous, young man, who heard about SAC from a friend in Upper School and has tons of hopes for Grade 9. Something was hold me back to go to SAC. , although that "something” terminated after I knew that everyone were Andrean Brothers and that's why I'm currently aiming to perfect the role of a well-rounded citizen. As they say, “Friends are the most ingredient in the recipe of life”. Friends, like Daniel Zhao, who told me about this school changed my whole life. Once I stepped on Andrean soil, I knew that I was part of something special. In addition, I never had "fun" in sports events because I thought I might get hurt. Yet when I joined SAC sports teams, I was afraid
Sophomore year was the first chance for me to prove to my mom and myself that I could do better and make better choices. I felt focused and determined, and I wasn’t going to let tricky teachers or any kind of distractions stop me. All of my classes were brand-new and exciting until I got to my algebra class and learned that I had been dropped to a lower algebra class than the one I had originally failed. Aside from being a sophomore in a freshman math class (Pre-Algebra), the reality of why I was in a lower class sank in. I was in the class not because I couldn’t do the work, but because I didn’t.
Let’s flash back in time to before our college days. Back to then we had lunch trays filled with rubbery chicken nuggets, stale pizza, and bags of chocolate milk. A backpack stacked with Lisa Frank note books, flexi rulers, and color changing pencils. The times where we thought we wouldn’t make it out alive, but we did. Through all the trials and tribulations school helped build who I am today and shaped my future. From basic functions all the way to life-long lessons that helped shape my character.
As I walked in to their bedroom, I found my mother sitting on the bed, weeping quietly, while my father lay on the bed in a near unconscious state. This sight shocked me, I had seen my father sick before, but by the reaction of my mother and the deathly look on my father’s face I knew that something was seriously wrong.
I never had a father figure in my life someone who would take me to soccer games or teach me how to be a young man. All that I had to learn by myself with the assistance of teachers
My father was not able to be around very often when I was a child, I would see him maybe once every six or seven months, if we were lucky, since most of the time he was serving in the military, he was overseas, and I would cry if left alone with him since Partly because I was still young, and partly because I rarely saw him, which caused me to feel insecure with my own father, eventually our relationship became relatively normal, but the stronger bond that
Growing up I attended schools where white was the minority. One day towards the end of my sophomore year in high school, we were reviewing for the state exam we had to take in a few weeks. Our teacher excused himself from the room and one of the school security guards came in to watch us while we worked. We were working silently on our questions that were focused on the Holocaust. Suddenly someone behind me asked loud enough for everyone to hear “Samantha was your grandfather a Nazi?” I was completely blindsided. I had never really spoken to this person before. I calmly explained to him that my family was in the United States when the war started. All of a sudden, someone else asked “So did your family own slaves?” After I explained that this too was false, I found some people looking at me with skepticism, the security guard being one of them. These were questions that I had grown accustomed to over the years. I was used to some of my
I woke up. My head was hurting so badly and I didn’t know where I was. Dad was lying beside me– hidden beneath an endless pile of rubble. His usually radiant complexion was an off grey- caked in dust and debris. I asked him to help. I told him that I was hurt through floods of tears but he didn’t move. I shook him; begging him to hear me .To comfort me.
The moment we stepped foot into the hospital, I could hear my aunt telling my mother that “he is in a better place now”. At that moment, something had already told me that my dad was deceased; it was like I could feel it or something. I felt the chills that all of a sudden came on my arms. As my mother and grandmother were both holding my hand, they took me into this small room. The walls were white, and it had a table with four tissue boxes sitting on the top. My other grandmother was there, and so were my two aunts, my uncles, and
I looked back at my father, still in the darkness of the doorway. His face was strange, empty. His eyes were golden and where the pupils would be they reflected red, like a cat in the dark, but when he came outside he looked like himself.
When I was in high school I had a problem, which was being shy. Being shy made me seem as if I was anti-social, and caused me to have no friends, but my shyness was decreasing each year of high school because I talked more, and by the time I reached 12th grade I had many friends, who are very close to me till this day. While being in high school, I was always focused on my studies. People believed that I was a genius in high school, but I really wasn’t, I was just focus on the lessons, and understood what the teacher taught us. As I reached eleventh grade, I was chosen to be a part of the National Honor Society; I thought that I was never going to be part of the National Honors Society. I was at the hospital when my friends told me the good news—that I was selected to be part of the National Honors Society. As I reached 12th grade I learned that working while going to school is a bad idea if you can’t multitask right. When I was working I didn’t realized that I wasn’t multitasking right; I wasn’t putting enough effort into my studies, and having a job was distracting me, so I decide to quit my job, and continue my education by going to college. Growing up was scary, but I’m ready what the future is holding for