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