Prompt #1
I come from a hard working and loving family. I have a mom, dad and a little brother. My parents came from a hard life, they struggled a lot to be were they are right now. They immigrated from Mexico to the US to give me and my little brother a better life. They wanted me to have the opportunity to get a better education than I would in Mexico . They knew how hard of a life I would had have in Mexico , they always saw the US as the land of opportunities.
All my life I had to do everything by my self, when I needed help while doing my homework, I had no one to turn to. It was a struggle doing my homework not having any help at all. My parents never did understand the simplest math problems I brought home. As I grew up and brought more difficult kind of math, they still did not know how to help me out.
Since my parents did not have as much of an education as they wished they could have had, all they could do was work to support me. No kind of educational help only the tools to go to school and learn. Every time I think whether to go to college or not, I think of all the sacrifices my parents made in able for me to have the education I have now. They left their hometown, their family to come to the US all alone not knowing a single word of English. Thinking of all the sacrifices my parents made for me motivates me to do well in school. Everything I do is all for my parents.
All these struggles and sacrifices my parents made for me led to one thing. It led to the future I want to have. I think every day of what I want to be when I grow up, but to tell you the truth all I really want when I grow up is to be able to support my parents. I want to pay them back for everything they have done for me. I want to give them the life they wanted me to have.
One way I can think of doing this is by going to college and become a business man. The fact that I see my parents always applying for jobs at various restaurants makes me want to be the person that owns the restaurant in the future. If it is not a restaurant ,then I want to own something that is worldwide.
Prompt #2
One talent that I see in myself is perseverance. I am the type of person that learns from their mistakes and capitalizes on it. In the beginning of my high school years, I did not do well in terms of grades, but I still moved forward and beyond. Sophomore year was a success for me since I did not give up and I persevered to make a success out of myself.
In my freshman year at my high school, I passed with grades like C's and D's. I was not proud of my myself, and something that helped me realize that my grades were unacceptable was an award that I had received from a previous teacher. The award was named "Diamond in the Rough". This award is handed out to the students who had a tough time with school subjects, but still persevered. This made me realize that I was capable of doing as good as my other peers. I felt as if this award was a wake up call telling me to do better in school. I became to realize how I was not going to get far with the type of work I was doing. I also started to think that it does not matter that I am going to school as the only full Mexican in it. My school is full of very intelligent people who happen to be primarily Asian. Although I was not doing as good in my grades as they were, it did not mean that I was going to be left behind while all of them moved on to a better future. I was going to be right there next to them moving on to a better future as well.
The "Diamond in the Rough" award made me think about my sophomore year at my school. Coming back to school as a sophomore, I decided to not play around and get my work done. So this year I ended up stronger, I ended the year with only B's and A's. I was proud of how well I had done, I knew that I was capable of doing this and now something that has prepared me for my junior year at my school is another award that I have won. This time the award was because I shined in class and was not struggling as much. The name of the award that I got as the " “Award. I won this award for English class and the teacher who have me this award was Mr. Sutherland. He has now motivated me to do good during my junior year. He has gave me the will to move forward and to not give up. I think that knowing that I am capable to struggle in the beginning and come back stronger has made me realize that now for college classes I need to work even harder. Now I need to persevere twice as much as I had before. This awards that have been handed to me have really opened me up to realize of what I am capable of.
In my freshman year at my high school, I passed with grades like C's and D's. I was not proud of my myself, and something that helped me realize that my grades were unacceptable was an award that I had received from a previous teacher. The award was named "Diamond in the Rough". This award is handed out to the students who had a tough time with school subjects, but still persevered. This made me realize that I was capable of doing as good as my other peers. I felt as if this award was a wake up call telling me to do better in school. I became to realize how I was not going to get far with the type of work I was doing. I also started to think that it does not matter that I am going to school as the only full Mexican in it. My school is full of very intelligent people who happen to be primarily Asian. Although I was not doing as good in my grades as they were, it did not mean that I was going to be left behind while all of them moved on to a better future. I was going to be right there next to them moving on to a better future as well.
The "Diamond in the Rough" award made me think about my sophomore year at my school. Coming back to school as a sophomore, I decided to not play around and get my work done. So this year I ended up stronger, I ended the year with only B's and A's. I was proud of how well I had done, I knew that I was capable of doing this and now something that has prepared me for my junior year at my school is another award that I have won. This time the award was because I shined in class and was not struggling as much. The name of the award that I got as the " “Award. I won this award for English class and the teacher who have me this award was Mr. Sutherland. He has now motivated me to do good during my junior year. He has gave me the will to move forward and to not give up. I think that knowing that I am capable to struggle in the beginning and come back stronger has made me realize that now for college classes I need to work even harder. Now I need to persevere twice as much as I had before. This awards that have been handed to me have really opened me up to realize of what I am capable of.
