My Sophmore Year

"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." ~Napoleon Hill

My sophomore year of high school has been a great experience for me. I have learned many things academically, socially, and physically. This year I have made many friendships, made older friendships stronger and have even lost a few.

I have realized that for almost everything that has happened to me over this school year it is mainly because me and my personality. This year i have learned that I have changed a lot. I have changed the way I look at things. I have changed the way i look at things because i have taught myself to look at situations and try to analyze them. By this, I mean I will take a situation, think about it, then I have learned to try and figure out why it happened. I may have always done this, but now i do it with more logical thinking. I have also changed because I am more comfortable speaking my mind in a strong way. I have taught myself to not be intimidated or afraid of speaking my mind to anyone. I have learned that this is not just something that you need to do sometimes, this is a life skill that is very important to have.

During my sophomore year I have had a lot of very exciting and interesting experiences. At my high school I am in the health academy. At the beginning of the year I the chance to meet with and talk to Medical students from UNM. This was a great experience! It really helped me get to see what it is like to go to a medical school. This made me even more determined to achieve my goal. My goal is graduate high school, go to college and become a pediatrician. This year I went to my cousins high school graduation. I was very interested in the valedictorian at their school. It was very surprising to hear their grade point average, they had a 4.589! This really motivated me to work extra hard in school. After this experience I set a new goal for myself, when i graduate in 2012 I want to be my class valedictorian.

This year I was able to help myself grow physically. My whole sophomore year I have been involved in cheer leading. This has helped me stay healthy and fit. Being in cheer leading I have had many experiences that I have never had before. I got to go to cheer camp and work with the UCA team, I got the chance to compete in state, and I have also been able to meet many new kids I would have never met if it weren't for cheer leading. I think that a big reason for me changing was because of cheer leading. In cheer leading you have to be very outspoken and loud. so that has really helped me.

This year has been amazing! I have learned and grown so much in many different ways. Many people have noticed that I have changed others haven't. I have noticed a change in myself, I think that that is the most important part. If I notice that i have changed myself in a good way it must have been a really good change or a really big change. I can't wait to see what the rest of my high school years bring me!

"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them." ~Francesco Guicciardini

Myself

"Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

This year I have had a lot of very new experiences. I have made many new friends, gotten closer to some friends, but I have also lost some very close friends. These are some of the good experiences and not so great situations that I have experienced this school year. I have learned so many things in just the time length of one school year.

This year I have learned that people change some change for the better, but others for the worst. When people change for the worst, or when people change at all what they don’t know is that they are not only affecting themselves but they are affecting others around them.

I have lost close friends because of people changing. I changed. This is the reason for one loss of a friend. This person didn’t like that I have become more outspoken. So they showed their true self. I saw that the person who was my best friend was not who that person truly was. So because of this loss I gained new friendships that accept the fact that I can speak up more, and they like it. I may have lost what I thought was a good friendship, but better things and people came out of this situation.

Now I have a big group of people who are my real best friends. These people I can trust with anything and everything we tell each other. Form this type of situation I have learned to always find the bright side of things. I believe this is very true. I think that this is true because when bad things happen things will fix themselves or they will get better.

People say I have changed, I’m not going to lie, I have changed I have noticed it myself. I am very glad that I have changed because I am a new person and I like the new me. I am really glad that everything that has happened to me (good or bad) happened because all of it changed me and made me a better person. It’s weird when you notice changes within yourself. When you yourself notice these changes it shows that there are big changes taking place, hopefully they are good changes!

"Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates."

- Thomas Szasz

Wisdom Quote

"Life is about making mistakes, learning from them and letting yourself move on. Never regret the mistakes you make, they can always help you." Amanda Otero

If today was the last day of my life journey this would be my wisdom quote. I think that life is about making mistakes and being able to learn from them. Many people make mistakes and always look at the bad side of it. I think that when you make a mistake you need to look at what you did, think about how you could have prevented what happened and think of how you can fix it. Many people also don't let themselves forget mistakes that they make. This just makes everything worse. I don't think you should completely forget your mistake but just forget that bad part about it and look at the situation as a learning experience. When you make mistakes, at the moment, you might think that everything is messed up. When you look back on the mistakes you've made you will be able to see that they did help you or make you look at something in a different way.

If I Could be Someone Else for a Day...

If I could be one person I would want to be someone who is my age but lives in a country where they don't have as many advantages that I have. I would like to do this because it would be a good experience. This would show me how of kids my age live. It would show me that I am very fortunate to have parents who take care of me and my family. Kids who are my age in other countries have a lot of responsibilities. For example they might have to work to get food for their family or take care of their siblings. They might have to look after their siblings because their parents are sick or may not be capable of looking after their family.

This type of experience would change my  paradigm of the world. It would give me another way to look at the world. This would show me how grateful I am to be able to go to school, and be able to see my friends on weekends and I wouldn't have to worry about what was going to happen to my siblings or family. I am very grateful that I have parents who take care of all of that. I also have a house to live in, food to come home to everyday, and new clothes, these are some things that some kids my age have to worry about. I am very fortunate to know that i have family who I know will always be there for me.