“Do not think of a painful experience as a dark time in your life. You emerge out of everything learning something or becoming a better person. You realize who your real friends are and how much your loved ones mean to you. “-Colleen Ho. In this life no two people are the exact same. It is possible to find someone with similar qualities, characteristics or interests as you, but it is not possible to find someone else exactly like you. We all have lived different experiences, and learned different things. I believe more in blessings in disguise than tragedies. It took many emotionally challenging obstacles to get to the person that I am today. No longer do I tell my experiences in search of pity, but instead tell it to people so they know that there is sunshine after a rainy day.
The summer of 2012 my nephew came to visit from Georgia. While my brother was at school, I had to take care of my nephew which was pretty much every single day. At the beginning, I did not mind because it was rare that I would see him, over time I realized that I had to sacrifice my summer and social life to take care of my nephew. The thing that upset me the most was that my brother never took responsibility for my nephew, so I had to take care of him even when my brother was home. I love my nephew with all my heart but me, being a teenager I thought it was too much. At one point I looked at my nephew playing and talking, and thought to myself that it is not his fault that he has an irresponsible father. So I sucked up my pride and played the mother role for my nephew. I look back now, and I do not regret at all sacrifices I made in my summer for my now six year old nephew, he means a lot more to me than any party, any friend, anyone in general. So I do not regret one thing I have done for my nephew.
The summer of 2012 my nephew came to visit from Georgia. While my brother was at school, I had to take care of my nephew which was pretty much every single day. At the beginning, I did not mind because it was rare that I would see him, over time I realized that I had to sacrifice my summer and social life to take care of my nephew. The thing that upset me the most was that my brother never took responsibility for my nephew, so I had to take care of him even when my brother was home. I love my nephew with all my heart but me, being a teenager I thought it was too much. At one point I looked at my nephew playing and talking, and thought to myself that it is not his fault that he has an irresponsible father. So I sucked up my pride and played the mother role for my nephew. I look back now, and I do not regret at all sacrifices I made in my summer for my now six year old nephew, he means a lot more to me than any party, any friend, anyone in general. So I do not regret one thing I have done for my nephew.
Scholarship 2
If I could get one do-over, I would most likely do-over my path of education in high school. I’m not saying I did awful but I didn’t do great. I don’t stand out from the rest of the class, well educational wise. I am different from my peers but I just wish I would’ve been able to at least apply to 4 year universities with confidence that I’ll get the scholarship. Whereas in the position I’m in I didn’t even bother applying because I wouldn’t want to face the reality of the fact that I really do not stand out. I know I made my mom happy just by where I’m at right now, I’m actually graduating but I wish I could’ve got beyond that, but when you start high school you don’t really think about your future too much.
Scholarship 3
Being almost seventeen years old I often see and hear many complain about their job. One of my many goals is to wake up every single morning, go to work and do the things that I love to do. My goal for the rest of high school is to do whatever it is that I have to do, to graduate early from high school. Many people interrogate me as to why I want leave high school early. Their argument is “You are going to miss out on your senior year, why do you want to grow up so fast?” I have a different mentality than they do, they see me as wanting to grow up fast, and I see myself as taking advantage of every single opportunity that comes my way. I eventually want to graduate from California State University of Long Beach, or San Diego State University, and possibly become a pediatric nurse. I want to be able to help out children, and get them through their health struggles. Every time I went to the hospital or doctor, I always had to experience it with rude nurses. Also my nephew, that means the world to me, constantly had bad experiences at hospitals due to disrespectful nurses. I have many people doubting my abilities to achieve what it is that I want to achieve in the future. No matter what it takes I am going to prove to all the people that have ever doubted me that, yes I am good enough to graduate from a university, and yes I am going to reach my career goal.