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The times we spent at each class, discussing about what success meant to us has allowed me to take a closer look at who I really was, and has made a great impact on myself. Personally, I have never thought about who I really was, nor what I was good or weak at. I always thought it didn’t matter if I was good or bad, but that I can always get better. However, lately, I have been reminded, from the passionate classes Mr. M has spent, talking to us, of our strengths and weaknesses I had, in which made me think of who I was at school, and who I was at home. Was I different? When Mr. M discussed this in class, I knew instantly that I was a different person at home and at school. At home, I am much more lively and outgoing than I am at school. To …show more content…
my parents, based on the person I am at home, I am very confident and happy. However, at school I, myself notice that I am usually, the opposite. At school, I am not confident, dull, stressed and really tired in most parts of the day. Both at school and at home, I usually speak blandly, unless I’m talking to a close friend. At school, I am active towards my learning/education, amiable, anxious, cautious, at times but, carefree and hyper in front of my closest friends yet, careful and conscientious, to the teachers and other adults I speak to. Overall, I am a respectful, well-respected student who shows lots of enthusiasm and tries to keep a positive mind towards her daily work. On the other hand, at home, I am deep, keen, obedient, polite, imaginative, lively, persevering, good listener and really crazy. In school, I show more interest on some things rather than others. A few interests I have are sports, school work, music, and building good relationships with teachers and friends. I love sports and although I am horrible at a few, I enjoy staying active, and it helps me to take a break off of whatever school work I’m doing, and recovers my mental being. The most biggest interest I have at school, is school work. I always try my best and put in time and effort into anything I do. Whether in core subjects or others, I always try my best. Recently, I have learned the consequences of missing school work, and will continue to always put it as my greatest interest.
I also have interest in music. I am a person that absolutely detests waking up early for school. Yet for music, I always get up on time because of my love of music. I love playing in ensembles because throughout the 2-3 minutes our ensemble plays, I feel included and we work as a team to achieve a piece with lots of practice. Music also, opens another gateway for me where I can escape to, when I am feeling down. Therefore, I feel music as another important aspect and interest in my life. Although, the ensembles aren’t as important as school work, I feel as the most important person when I play with my …show more content…
peers. Lastly, I am interested in building up stronger relationships with my friends, peers and most of all, teachers. From being in Mr. M’s class, I have learned that teachers aren’t always the people who teach with no feeling at all, but are people who help us, and supports us and it gives me a boost of confidence, knowing that there’s someone who is always supporting me. Therefore, I’m glad that I have teachers that help me, as well as friends who support what I do. My strengths are the subjects I love, and that I am good at. I like math, music, french, science and language. My weaknesses are presentations and speaking in front of people. This is because I do not have a lot of confidence in myself, but I am working in building my confidence and accepting myself for who I am. I will also, listen to the things Mr. M taught us in class, and will try to put them into actions, so that I could overcome my fear of presenting in front of people. As I got into a higher grade, I became more and more terrified of presenting in front of people. Throughout grades 4-6, I participated in various speech contests, outside of school, speaking both in korean and english, but I was never as nervous as I am right now in this class. I’ve won medals and trophies from the contests, and I had a love for presentations, until at one point, I messed up completely during one presentation, and my confidence towards presenting, from then on, was thrown out the window. From then on, I started to avoid presentations and speaking in front of large groups of people, at all. The 3 major factors that has mostly led me in becoming who I am right now, are swimming, piano, and my family, mostly my brother. First of all, I chose swimming as one of my factors because it has always been with me. I started learning swimming in grade 1, and still I am continuing to learn to become a lifeguard. I love swimming and it has helped me get to who I am now, because it gave me confidence. Back in grade 1, I wasn’t fluent in english, nor did I have any friends. I was always alone at school and mostly at home, because my parents were busy looking after my brother, since he was in a higher grade than me, as well as, he needed more attention than I. Therefore, I didn’t recognize any of my strengths and weaknesses, nor anyone to talk to about how I felt, until I started taking swimming lessons and growing rapidly as a swimmer. I began to love swimming, and always waited for the next swimming class. Every lesson, competition, tournament and practice, I’ve done has slowly shaped my confidence. Therefore, whenever my friends were talking about swimming, I was able to show my strength and my confidence towards swimming. Currently, I am practising my speed in swimming and I am waiting until I’m fourteen, before I can take my final course to becoming a lifeguard. Swimming has given me confidence, support and my skill reflected upon how people judged me. I loved swimming and it was my farmost pride. This is why I chose swimming as one of my 3 factors, because it has been such a great support that I could always lean back on. Secondly, I chose piano.
Truthfully, I hated piano, and I still do. I absolutely detest it, because I always got scolded by my teacher. I started to take piano lessons when I was in grade 3. Back then, my brother also learned the piano, and I loved the sound of the piano. Therefore, I always begged my parents that I wanted to take lessons. I went to every single lesson my brother went and watched him play and learn new pieces. Eventually, I got to have my first lesson and it was a dream come true. My teacher told me that I was very talented, and that I could become better than my brother. As time went by, I started to complete and pass through each of the grades. For the first 3 years, I was a very good student. I played all of the pieces my teacher assigned me, and every piano lesson was amazing. However, the next 1 and a half years were horrible. Mainly because I didn’t practice, and I would get scolded by my teacher for not putting effort into my pieces. Through all the troubles my teacher and I’ve been through, I am still continuing to take lessons and I am currently in grade 8, moving on to grade 9. Piano has been the first ever gift, I received from my parents, and this is why, I would never give up on piano. I don’t want to throw away the gift my parents got for me, because I wanted it. Aside from this, piano is another one of my pride and confidence. I participated in competitions and performed in recitals. Strangely, I was never scared of performing in front of
people more than the number of people in my class. I loved to perform pieces to people and it was another one of my joy. I didn’t have to explain anything in words, all I had to do was show my true feelings and meanings towards the piece I was playing. I never had to impose as someone else or I never had to change myself because of the way people judged me. I always forced myself to change because I was afraid that someone would judge me. I got so afraid, that I felt like I wasn’t allowed to talk like myself or even act like myself. This is when I started to act differently at home at school. I always changed, but while I was playing the piano, I never had to change, and even if someone didn’t like how I played, I almost didn’t care, because I loved how I played, and I am never going to stop nor change. Lastly, I chose my family, mostly my brother. My family has been my greatest supporters. My parents were always on my side, and I could tell them anything. Most of all, my brother has helped me to become who I am right now because he showed me all of the possibilities that I could take and gave me courage. I would often be afraid to try out for something or admit that I was wrong, and each and every time he was like my social worker. He always listened patiently to all of the problems I was facing and told me stories about how he dealt with some. He told me to always think positively and has given me courage. Before I talk to him, I would get all nervous and scared. But, once I talk to him, all of the nervousness I had before would go away. I always came through and I mostly relied on him. However, once he left to fulfill his dreams, I would only talk to him when he visits us. We would spend the best times together and the best memories in my past, always consisted of him. This is why he is my biggest and final factor that helped me become who I am today. These are my 3 major factors and the things/people that helped me, supported me and the ones who puts a big smile on my face, everyday.
We all have our favorite genera of music, one that we believe has shaped us. For me, my musical experience began while still in the womb. While I was still a fetus, my mother would play classical music for me every day. I believe that this experience has shaped the type of music that I listen to today. When I was a child, I remember having music playing but simply as background noise. As I grew up, music became more important to me. When I entered fourth grade, music becomes something more than background noise to me. To further indulge in my love for music, in fifth grade, I joined the chorus and band. I thought that since I enjoyed listening to music, I would also enjoy making music. Being a part of the chorus was short lived for me. I sang with them for about three months and then decided it was not for me. However, the same was not true
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Within my fifteen and a half years of living, I have experienced many heart wrenching moments that have changed who I am, so many that I stopped trying to keep count long ago. Like most teenagers, the past couple of years have been some of the most confusing, hectic years of my life. I'm at that age I'm trying to figure out who I am, as well as who I want to become. As indecisive as I am, I will more than likely change my mind a time or two, but right now at this very moment, I've finally come to terms with who I really am, and what I would like to do for the rest of my life.
Identity-“Ones personal qualities.”Identiy is something only he or she can fully define. My uncle says I am affectionate,cheerful, and calm. My grandmother sees me as slim, pretty and sweet. My dad described me as perky, cheerful and happy, my mom says beautiful, gentle, and self-conscious. These adjectives describe me accurately, yet they are only abstract versions of me. Adjectives cannot begin to describe me and I aknowlege these descriptions for what they are, a condensed translation from my outward self to the world. It is impossible for anyone to understand me completely because nobody has experienced the things I have. My mother has never cherished a raggedy doll named Katie and my father never spent hours upon hours making collages and scrap books for his future children. My uncle never hid in the back of a pick-up-truck and traveled four hours to New York and my grandmother has never walked hours in the rain looking for the Queen of England. My identity is something only I can define.
Music is the third most important thing to me in life outside of god and my mom. Music keeps me balanced. Every since I was a baby music was played around me. Jazz was always played around me to soothe me. There would be times when I would be really hyper acting like I couldn't sleep, my mom would put on some jazz and I would be fine. A lot of times I can have a long chore and I say to my self how can I accomplish this, Knowing it will take me forever. So I'll put on some jazz music and in twenty-five minutes I'm finished.
There are many things that have molded me into the person I am today such as being born into a family with four children. With three siblings, I have been forced to be able to work out problems from stealing each other’s toys to having to rush to the emergency room to get stiches because my brother chased me around the house and I tripped. My mother, father, brother, and two sisters were all born in Pennsylvania and I am the odd ball and I was born in Adrian, Michigan. From when I was a child I always loved being involved with sports because of my competitive nature. I grew up playing soccer and having success with that but then my love changed and I began playing lacrosse and football. I started playing lacrosse in middle school and played
Music has absolutely been an enormous part of my life and who I am. However,
To conclude this, music plays a big role in my life on how I feel and how strong the music is. Music helped me stand up and be where I am right now. It’ll always define for who I am and what I’ve done. Not only did it affect me it also helped me mentally through my time and moments.
In the past twenty years I have experienced different aspects of life that have shaped me into who I am today. I have had personal experiences, moments with friends, and indirect encounters. Each story explained below goes into detail of what occurred how it has shaped me into the student I am and future teacher I am becoming. Experiences throughout life affect the way we teach and the opinions that we can potentially transfer over to our future students.
What makes me is football, I used to play but I don’t play anymore because I lost interest. I always watch football games though. I like to hang out with my brothers and on the weekends I go with my dad and we hang out at his house. I think that Kutcher is an outstanding man and that the speech he gave was very inspiring to the audience and people watching. The first thing Kutcher says is that there is 3 main things. These are opportunities, being sexy, and living life. When Ashton Kutcher said “The sexiest thing in the entire world is being smart” I agreed. I think that if you are smart, you attract to more people, being smart shows to other people that you are capable of doing anything that you want. But when he said everything around
Music has always been part of my life since I was young I was active in church musicals, chime group, and the bell choir. Throughout elementary I loved it, listening to music was unsurpassed no matter what the genre. In the sixth grade I mistakenly joined the band and decided to play the trombone, my perception was that the slide made it the preeminent instrument, where I would later learn that it is the greatest. Regrettably, after sixth grade, band took a back seat where I prioritized basketball over the band, this occurred pending my sophomore year where I was forced to discontinue the sport I loved because my skills were not equivalent to what the coach expected. Feeling as if my identity was taken directed me to find my enjoyment for music
Music is such a big part of everyone’s life, all for different reasons, and all becoming a part of their lives in different cases. For me, music became a big part of my life through a simple instrument, the viola. I started playing in the fifth grade because that was when I finally made the leap to pick up a new hobby and to see how it would work within my life. After the first couple of years of learning how to play and learning general information about music, I began to fine tune my abilities when playing and I finally was able to see an improvement with me playing the viola. I couldn’t have been any more enthusiastic about music by this point, finally getting through the biggest obstacle when it comes to music, learning it. Now I
I’ve always been interested in music when I was little. I was taught to play guitar, piano, and a recorder and I always listened to a diverse variety of music. When I got to 6th grade I joined the school’s beginning band. I decided to play the flute and I fell into the obsession with it. I practiced every day making sure I would be great at it. I went to a few band competitions over the next 3 years and received superior ratings in solo and ensemble competitions.
“If your dreams don’t scare you, they are not big enough” (Ellen Johnson Sirleaf). My dream is to be a music teacher, and it terrifies me. As more and more schools cut their music programs, there are less opportunities to land a job. More importantly, there are less opportunities for students to find their passion in music. Music is a form of expression when words are not enough. People turn to music for so many reasons. We sing at church and at Christmastime, at weddings and in the car with our friends. We put on our favorite song when we are feeling happy, and sad, slow music when we need a good cry. Music is my passion, and I found it through my educational system. Without it, I have no idea what I would be doing with my life. I know that it will take a lot of dedication and hard work to achieve my dream, but it is well worth it if I can positively impact one child’s life through music the way my music teachers did for me.
I am sentimental, out-going, indecisive, understanding, curious, naive, lazy, and young. I want to be ... , well a lot of things, and growing is discovering what they are. I feel people cannot see the potential within, although there is no one to blame but myself. I look to others for approval instead of to myself. I aim to please; it leads to approval. I don’t like to discuss my faults; I pity myself.