My name's Amber, I'm a fourteen year old girl. Plus I am diagnosed with cerebral palsy which is a problem with the part of the brain that controls the body movements. Also, I have a caring mom, dad, and an eight year old sister, I love my whole family, but sometimes it's hard for me to express it. On the weekdays I go to Deerpark Middle School. I'm in eighth grade, and I have wonderful teachers like Mrs. Huffman, Mrs. Kobren, Mr. Wildis, Mr. Williams, Mrs. Pikas, Coach Vazquez and Amy. In school I try to do my best. I have U.S History with Mrs. Huffman, which is my weakest area in school. However, my wonderful teacher makes sure that I don't fall behind in my studies, and my mom helps me with my homework. I have an eighty-nine percent average in history, but she's quite strict because she thinks that I'm a normal kid. However, sometimes I feel like it's way too much for me to handle! Next, I have Science class with Mrs. Kobren, or as I like to refer to her as, ‘Crazy Auntie Kobren’. She tells me funny stories like how her daughter invited a …show more content…
On the weekends if I have a test I study and go to my Arabic classes. I love it but sometimes it gets a little frustrating because sometimes my mouth doesn't want to co-operate with me. My teacher tells me to try to be a little clearer but she doesn't know that I'm putting in 2 million percent of my effort and sometimes it's just out of my reach. But I never give up! Then, I come back and study. After studying my mom quizzes me, and after that I watch TV, sing, play with the iPad, or play with the DS. I do a lot of things that people think are weird but I do everything for a reason. For example, I don't like baths. I hate them because it feels like I'm taking a bath inside a waterfall. Sometimes I wiggle my fingers when I'm doing something, and I don't know whether it’s another stim (an input to block out the
But of course, the voices of my aunts and uncles were always in the back of my head: "you're not smart" , "you're not trying hard enough", "you're not good enough", "just give up". And the fear of failure would make me nervous when a test was around the corner. I couldn’t ask my parents for help because they weren't literate in English and they were only Spanish speakers. I couldn’t ask my brother he was always playing outside with his friends and I couldn’t ask my cousins because they would only make fun of me and tell their parents. So, there was a time I stopped asking for help. My parents saw my struggle so they signed me up for afterschool tutoring. I didn’t know what to expect, I just hoped I would get the tutoring I need to pass my classes. The tutors were so understanding and they didn’t just have homework tutoring but activities for learning which were fun. They also had books they read to us and they made the big kids read to the little
Halfway through my sophomore year, my mom ran into some financial troubles. We had no choice, but to move away from my high school, and move in with my grandparents. After we moved, she didn’t have a job for over a year. I really didn’t want to switch schools. I was comfortable at my school and with my friends. My mother was willing to let me continue going there, even after we moved. I drove 30 minutes, everyday so I could go to school. It wasn’t easy, but it’s been worth it. I had to get up even earlier, I
First of all, my perceptions of my greatest strengths display that reasoning and enthusiasm to learn are some of my greatest strengths, however, my mother reports that my greatest strengths which we did not share were English skills, kindness, politeness, and trustworthiness. Another question in which our opinions differed was that I was not in high school long enough to have a solid experience which to explain about, but on the other hand, my mother had a great experience in high school, enjoyed school overall, and had mostly wonderful teachers. Lastly, my worries for myself in this school year include falling behind in my advanced class, not obtaining perfect A’s throughout the year, or accidentally being late. However, my mother had absolutely no fears or worries for me this year in school, demonstrating that she has a great deal of faith in me. Between my perceptions of my skills and my mother’s perception of them, the fact that there are differences between our opinions has been validated with these pieces of
“Good Luck, Have Fun and Don’t Cheat.” Every day during the school year and most days during the summer I see Megan Tompkins. She is my science teacher and has been since I started 7th grade life science. Mrs. Tompkins has been a role model for me since that time. I started looking up to her because being a girl with a love for science is not the easiest, especially just staring my high school career. Even being my role model, I do not know that much about her except for the basics from being her student. First is what I already knew about her.
I am an 11-year-old 6th grader and I go to Jefferson Houston, I go by the name Blane. I have gone to Patrick Henry for kindergarten and Samuel W. Tucker for 1st-5th grade. In Jefferson Houston there is a program called AVID, this is a program that helps and motivates young adults to go to colleges. This year, I took an AVID interview for next year, and I passed so I will be in AVID next year. My favorite time of the day is lunch and my favorite subject is math. When it comes to school my strength is math, I am in 7th Grade Honors Math. I have gotten the A/B honor roll and citizenship award for semester 1. My plans for a successful and happy future is, to attend Harvard or Yale for law school and become a defense attorney. The most difficult event that changed me, was going to Jefferson Houston instead of Hammond. All throughout 5th grade, I was planning to go to Hammond and stick with my friends. But then, in the summer my mom preferred for me to go to Jefferson Houston, I obviously did not want to,
Therefore, I was very dependent on my family and friends. Anytime someone new tried to talk to me, I could always count on at least one of my sisters, to be standing right by my side, answering any question they threw at me. One of the things that scared me the most about public school was the number of hours I would be away from my family, after all, they were my interpreters and protectors. After the first few weeks, when everything started to settle down, that’s when I realized “I can do this.” The whole communication and conversation was not as horrible as I imagined it to be. In fact, people were really quite pleasant to me, being the “new girl” and all. I started to make list, which may not seem to be a big deal, but it was a big step for me. Since, previously, I thought that list were just something mothers made for groceries, or the elderly made due their forgetfulness. I was wrong. I came to realize, that it was an independency thing, not an age or gender thing. They had so much responsibilities that they had to write them all down, in order to remember them
I remember at the end of the day our eyes would sparkle, even some of my friends that were not interested of science told that they really enjoyed it. Afterwards my grades for my science classes have been increasing vastly; difficulties like not having equipment’s and lab didn’t stop me to continue knowing more about science. Mr. Ashenfi’s assistance did not stop at school; he gives me advice what to do like: volunteering at hospitals and by providing me science books. My life was difficult growing up. From losing my grandmother when I was seven by diabetes, not living with my mother for most of my life and also living in a third world country, put me on a challenging trail of life. But through my journey, science always cheered me up. Even though there where tragic days, my desire to know about the world made me a stronger
I studied 2-3 hours a night and disconnected myself from the outside world just so I can make the grades. When the semester end and report cards were sent home, I once again disappointed my parents and didn't make the honor roll list. I felt hopeless and discouraged and thought to myself “I’ll never be able to do it, I’ll never be able to make my parents proud and make the honor roll list”. I was almost obsessed with the idea and it consumed my mind, body, and soul. But to my surprise, it was all about to change the following
Hi! My name is Joh Doe and my life has had its ups and downs before, like any other person has had. I was born at Huntington hospital in Huntington, New York. I grew up in East Northport, New York in Suffolk County. I have always lived in the same house and I like it that way. I had the chance to move but I chose not to. My family consists of five people, my dad, my mom, my two sisters, and myself. My mom and dad were the greatest parents growing up and all throughout my childhood. I thought I had the greatest life and wouldn’t change anything about it. I have become extremely close with my dad, especially as I have gotten older. My dad is more like a friend to me now, I guess because I can relate to him and talk to him about things that interest us both. Not that I don’t see him as a father, its just that he is a friend and a father. My other good friend is Matt who I met through elementary school and through little league because we were in the same class and on the same team. I became best friends with Matt in third grade, when we were eight, and to this day we are still best friends at the age of eighteen. The first way Matt and I hung out outside of school was through doing homework and projects for our class in third grade. I have always struggled with school grade wise. I do fine in class, taking notes, completing what I need to get done, and even homework. But the biggest trouble I had and still have to this day is test taking. Whenever I take a test, I freeze up and can’t remember anything I studied. I think I had a lot of pressure put on me to do so well because my two older sisters always did so good in their classes that I wanted to do the same. I generally like school because its ...
Everyone has challenges in their life and mine were speech and depression. From preschool to second grade I had to take “special” classes because my English was far more behind than everyone else’s. At the time I didn’t notice anything different, though now I realize that without those classes school would of been twice as hard. I overcame this challenge by simply going to school and learning. I found out that school can help with anything, for this reason I love learning to this day. I began noticing a negative change with myself throughout middle school, which now I classify as my second challenge, depression. I’m still not exactly certain if it is just depression, seasonal depr...
My first experience of learning Arabic language was at age 4. I start to observe my father when he was teaching his student Arabic. I remember that one day I went with my father to his school because I was in holiday and for some reason my mother have to go out, so nobody taking care of me . The first time when I enter the class, I felt shy in front of student. At the moment when I started to get attention to lesean and saw student copy things on the board, I felt very curious how they could write. It is obviously I couldn't understand every part in lecture, but I had hoped that someday I will be able to write like them and to understand. Then when I return home I went directly to my room. I started to hold the pen and paper and try to copy any thing in front of me. I thought it would be easy to me to copy things but it was difficult. I didnt notice that I hold pen sidelong. The...
When it comes to my schoolwork, I tend to be extremely conscientious, diligent, and ambitious. A few of my academic strengths are my organizational skills and ability to think critically. A weakness that I have is test taking; while taking tests I become nervous, and forget the information. I become upset with myself if I earn a C on a test or in a class. Then I consider what I could have done differently to receive a higher grade and apply it to future assignments. I react this way when it comes to my studies, because my dad used to get upset with us if we received anything below a B in specific subjects. For example, if we got a C in math my dad would say, “You don’t know how to count? I guess I will stop giving you money since you cannot count it.” He would also reward us for being able to count and getting good grades. When I was a little girl, he used to put out money and give us 30 seconds to count it, if we counted
Some people may see me now and think that I had an easy road to get where I am today. However, as I stated in my introduction my life has been full of obstacles. As I think back on my life there are three specific things I had to overcome. The first thing that I had to overcome was having a speech impediment at the age of four years old. I remember kids laughing at me because I couldn’t pronounce words that started with the letter “S”. Because of this my mother put me in speech classes. I still remember the name of my teacher, Mrs. Bay. She helped me for two years. After working with her I went to kindergarten without any speech impediment made friends and start love going to school hanging with friends and being able to talk right without anyone laughing at me. It
I’ve had to find a rhythm to “balance” my academics with my extra-curriculars. I say rhythm because I know some days have focused more on preparing for a track meet or soccer game, while other days, I’ve had ASB duties or heavy studying that needed to get done as well. I’ve realized I can’t do it all, and need to prioritize for that specific day’s responsibilities. With this constant challenge, I’ve been given a healthy pressure to get tasks done well and efficiently. I’ve had to do most of high school “alone” in some aspects of it. I come from a very loving and supportive family, but I’m the first to go to a university; which is stressful all in itself. I’ve had to be my own motivation to keep working hard because neither my parents nor siblings understand the ins and outs of the application and scholarship process. Going to a small school has made me feel alone through the years too. Not many kids are motivated so I’ve had to be my own cheerleader a lot of times, and keep pushing even when nobody else seems to be on the same path I’m working towards. While my peers go out on the weekends or school nights, I haven’t been able to, nor wanted to from how to tired or busy I am from the week. Learning to find time to re energize and prepare for success the next week ahead has made me “grow up” very
For this short story, I will talk about my recent build of a new dedicated system solely devoted to video games. I have been building computers for both myself and peers for over 10 years now and yet I had the most difficulty with this build as I was also migrating from Microsoft Windows 8.1 Operating System to Windows 10. The first thing I had to do was install Windows 10 to a flash drive. This peripheral device would enable me to install the operating system on to the flash drive and then once all the hardware was installed, I could install windows 10 onto my computer.