Looking Back

Sophomore Year First Semester

For this sophomore year, I have to admit that I had no clue to where my classes where or if I had first, second, or third lunch. I didn’t even know that we have more than one lunch! But I was happy for my new journey here at the high school; however I knew my school life would restart all over again. It was already difficult for me without knowing much people in middle school, but not impossible to meet new ones at the high school the next year. Anyways some of the challenges I confronted, and I’m still confronting are my first to classes, Enriched Chemistry and AP World History. My Chemistry class because my mind tricks me by playing me memory games, however in my History class is the nominalization that is keeping me down on the reading or the way questions are being worded on my tests or quizzes . But honestly I need to admit that I caused myself the famous “snowball effect” by not acting probably right at the second and find myself or at least let myself out of it. Yet I never realize it, until I got really sick and I started to reflect on how I had let down myself theme and my grades. Looking back that’s the first of so many mistakes I fully believe that I committed. My mom always tells me that if you ever heard someone admit their own mistakes on life; they’re people who know what they most need to fix before their final day comes. Or I often have her tell me mejor ser conocido como tonto por un rato que tonto por toda tu vida, which translate to better be known for idiot than be known it for your whole life.  

Although most of the semester was challenges and adapting to another new system, again, we went to our first and hopefully not the last ESL field trip! We went Ice Skating at the Depot Rink! For AVID we went to River Falls Wisconsin to visit their college, and Hamline in Saint Paul! I had some victories too such as being part of this blog, meeting the amazing Schneider; not missing the bus on the first day of school, being able to set up a lab all by myself without having another chemical decanted on my nails; overcoming personal challenges plus fears, and finally but definitely not least and yet the most important of all of them was to have my mom, and brother with me when I needed them the most. Before I wind up this looking back let me give you guys an advice don’t let your mind tell you, you can. Because we’re all capable of doing anything with set off for. Maybe not in the way you thought you were going to accomplish it, but doesn’t matter how you will get there, the deal is to get there.