Worst Years In Grade School example essay topic

My family comes from all around the world. My great grandpa was from Ireland and my great grandma was from Germany. On my dads side his parent were from England and Scotland. My mother and father met and married here in the U.S. both at the young age of nineteen.

They had my first sister Courtney in 1980. My mother then gave birth to my other older sister Kristin in 1981. My older brother, Michael, was born in 1986. Then I was put into this world in 1987.

My mother wasn't done yet, she had my little brother Matthew who was born in 1990. Finally and last but not least my little sister Tracie was born in 1991. I was baptized on January 3, 1988 at St. Michaels' Church. On that day I was it was official that Rosemary Wells, my grandmother was sworn into being my God mother. Also, Charles Sauer, my grandmas' best fried was given the opportunity to be my Godfather. As I started to grow up and become more aware of all the people, places, and things around me, I decided to explore the world a little more.

From what my parent tell me, I was always a pretty calm and quiet child as I was growing up, but I still managed to get in to a little mischief and get into trouble a few times. Although being young and fully unaware of all the sinful and bad things in the world my mother seemed to always be the more "friendly" parent and completely understand that I did not know any better and that I did not yet know the difference between right and wrong. My father was also a very caring guy for when I can remember and loved me very much; he just had a different point of view on parenting and different perspective on punishment. As far back as I can recall, I remember being yelled at by my father for running out the front door and running out in the road when I was about four years old. As each punishment kept on coming one after another I began to learn from my mistakes and correct myself.

Although being very excited to start going to preschool there were also a few bad things that were going on at the same time in my life that I was not fully aware of what was going on. At age five my parent began to see differences in each other and figured the best way to resolve the problem was to get a divorce. When I was five, I really had no clue to what exactly happened in a divorce, a matter in fact I did not even know what a divorce was then. I finally learned what I t was when my sister had explained it to me and described it by simply saying it's when your parents live separately and never go back together again. From there on I did not know what to expect later in my life and how my life was going to be forever changed from that one significant event. For me life was pretty difficult as a young child still not fully aware of everything.

I discovered that since my parents had a divorce and lived in two separate places that meant a new whole change in my life. My father had moved out into Lancaster to live with his mother and father, and my mother stayed in the house where we were living in presently. My three sisters, two brothers and I all had to switch each week and stay with one of my parents for a week at a time. I wasn't as physically shaped as much as emotionally shaped from this event that I had to go through as a child and I think, because of my parents divorce I believe I would be like who I am today in various ways. Like my mother always says, everything is meant to happen for a reason. Going into grade school and feeling like I was old enough now to take responsibility, my little sister Tracie had just been born before I went into Kindergarten.

I could not wait to go to kindergarten. In my first year of grade school at St. Michaels, I had my wonderful teacher Mrs. Barwinki to guide me though the year. Whenever I think about kindergarten, I think of the reading loft. The reading loft was the best place in the whole classroom because you could just sit down, relax and read a book silently.

I was always interested in reading and learned to read before I went into kindergarten. My best friends in kindergarten were Brad Kernan and Joey Bluebaulgh. We had the best times together and always loved to go to each others house. Moving on into first grade with my teacher Ms. Lazzeroff we, as a class were becoming very involved with religion.

I finally got involved with religion and started to understand who God and Jesus were around the age of six. As a first grader I believe that I was most interested in religion and was more concerned with the topics we studied than in any other subject. I also began going to CCD as a first grader. That's where I met my new friend Pat Kelly.

He and I have never had more fun than we did then. Our times were great together. A lot of the times after school we met up with each other and rode our bikes together around the neighborhood and go on bike trails. Second grade was pretty ordinary for me having the teacher Ms. Sauter. In second grade things started to really change and get serious. There was no more nap time or snack time, instead it was studying math problems and doing spelling.

Spelling was by far my favorite subject. Not only was I pretty good at it, I loved to have a good challenge with spelling big words. I was still really good friends with Pat Kelly and Brad Kernan as a second grader. But I was also making more friends. I became best friends with Abby Gering and Jordan Fur bee. We were all very close classmate buddies and had fun all the time together.

They definitely had a big influence on me as a younger child, growing up and becoming a more mature person. Also around second grade my whole family started going to church more often now that I could accept the bread and wine at church. Third grade was probably one of the worst years in grade school. Only because I had the teacher Mrs. Green, the mean, mean, homework machine. Each year was getting more and more serious which really didn't seem like a good thing to me.

School actually started to get a little more challenging and more demanding. We were now being given lots and lots of homework each and every night and were starting to loose some of my free time on the days after school. This year was also a very good year in another point of view because I started to meet a lot of new people, such as Sean Gillian d, Alex Zarilli, Cara Fowler and Anthony Ceritelli. That was pretty much our big gang. I was still friends with many of my other previous friends too. Basically my social life had pretty much developed in third grade.

Science was my best and certainly my favorite subject in third grade. We started to learn all about plants and other things on this planet, and the universe. I remember winning the best project award for a project on the planet Uranus. I had also gotten into art when I was about seven and became very interested in it. I had a few pieces of artwork go into the school art fair and I remember being very proud of myself then. I think that's where my whole interest in art had begun and developed me to how much I love art today.

Fourth grade brings back many memories. Such as my teacher, Ms. Taylor who now volunteers at Shepard's Corner. Fourth grade was a big part in my life. I would say that this year had the greatest impact on my life so far. My mother had moved to a new house which was a pretty fun time and my father had now moved back to the previous house we all use to live in.

I had pretty much become aware of who everyone was in my class by fourth grade. I was becoming very close friend with everyone that I could. I met Dan Hensley at a birthday party that I was invited to and became good pals with him. During the time in fourth grade, I was going to a few more social events. Such as going to the movies on Friday night and going to D.A.R.E. skating parties every other week which were very fun. I started to also have enemies also.

Davide Cu gini and I didn't see eye to eye and were not quite best buds. We got into a fight and both had to face the consequences and soon we both had forgiven each other and became pretty good friend from then on. This was also the year where you were allowed to participate in sport activities. I decided to run track, play basketball, and play volleyball for my fourth grade year. I can remember still loving the subject Spelling and was very good at it then.

My fist penance had also arrived in fourth grade. I wasn't exactly sure what to expect or what to do but in a way it felt kind of special to me. I don't know whether to say that fifth grade was my favorite year or worst year. Ms. McConnell was my teacher and was a fabulous Math teacher.

That's when I became interested in math and all the interesting things in it that I never really saw before. For many, whenever they heard math they were sick to their stomach, for me it was the opposite. Although I wasn't getting an A in it, I was till very interested in it. There was the moment where I had one the class Spelling Bee and went on to face the rest of the class winners all the way up to eighth grade. Although I did not go any farther than that I still felt good about my self and proud of how far I got.

Basketball was a kind of a "must do" thing in fifth grade. I mean that if you didn't play basketball, then you weren't considered to be cool. Part of the reason that I played basketball was because everyone was doing it. But I also loved playing it also. I also did Track again that year as my father being the head coach and helped a lot through out the season. He had pushed me to the limits and made me run 5 K road races almost every Saturday from then on.

At first I didn't think that they were necessary and I started to get tired of them plus I hated dealing with all the nervousness each night before the race in the morning. But I would like to thank him because he pushed me so hard through each training and race he has put me to where I am athletically now. My friends had pretty much stayed the same in fifth grade. I didn't get into any fights or anything but I still ran into a few other problems. There were a lot of peer pressuring and other bad things people were trying to get me to do. Such as cheating or breaking a window or lying to a teacher all had come into my life in fifth grade.

As all these other things began to come into my life things started getting tougher. I was given my first C on a report card and my grades weren't as good as the previous years. I was still attending Church every Sunday with my family and I was becoming to be more aware of God and Jesus and took them pretty serious from then on. Now that I was focused on Religion more, now I tried to become what was a real true Catholic. Sixth grade was a very tough year for me emotionally, physically and mentally. Although Mrs. Such, my sixth grade teacher, was very nice and understanding it still didn't really help the fact that things were getting even tougher.

My Grandpa Wells had died when I was twelve and was very depressing to me because I had looked up to for so long. My Grandpa Wells had taught me all of his secrets about fishing and all his techniques. This put me through a lot of hard times and set me back for a while. Going into sixth grade I was expecting a lot. Not necessarily all god things, but not also all bad things.

Obviously both had to come at some time in life. My grades were pretty fine and steady in sixth grade but to my father he always believed that I could do better and learn more, so I tried as hard as possibly could. It was also pretty hard to keep up with my school work while focusing on sports too. I participated in Track, Basketball and Cross Country during my sixth grade year with my father being my coach for both Track and Cross Country. My relationship with others had grown very strong. I was very concerned with my parents' conditions and health and focused on trying my best to please them.

This also went for my Grandma too who I probably saw the most each day in my life because she babysitter me for. I will never forget my seventh grade year. It was just a fantastic year. Everything went my way and everything always felt like it was a good thing to me. Although there were a few bumps in the road.

My homeroom teacher Mr. Rutter was a very exciting and enthusiastic guy. He and I had a very good relationship with each other and could talk with each other real easily. He basically introduced me into playing the guitar in seventh grade. At first I didn't really think much about playing the guitar, but until I met him he showed me everything. He gave lessons after school and taught me how to play the guitar for about a year or so.

I also had to keep up on my school work too. Over all I did pretty well in seventh grade. It got tough sometimes and the homework piled up sometimes but I wasn't going to let that get in my way. My favorite subject was Math.

Only because Mr. Rutter was the first teacher who I could easily work with. He was very elaborate on everything and almost made it too easy for me. I was elected for class student council that year and did my best to stand out and change the school. I ran track, did basketball and Cross Country. Unfortunately during my seventh grade Cross Country year I had seriously injured my ankle in a race and was out for almost the whole season. So far religiously I have felt pretty strong in what I believe in.

I had a pretty strong relationship with God and a good understanding of the Bible. I attended Mass at St. Michael Church every Sunday. Eighth grade was outstanding and felt so outgoing that year. My teacher was Mr. Kendra ch, one of my personal favorite teachers.

He taught American History for my class and me and did a fabulous job at it. He always got everyone involved during class and always helped a lot of people who were a little confused at times in the best and most comfortable ways. He was very easy to talk to and also a very funny guy as well. He got me to feel that maybe Social Studies was my favorite subject and helped me to excel in it.

So I would probably say that History was my favorite class in Eighth grade. I was almost great friends with pretty much everyone in my grade and had fully got to know everyone. My friends and I were hanging out constantly on the weekends and were meeting new people every weekend from other schools at the dances. I met Mike Kun dla at a dance and he got me addicted to skateboarding that year.

Ever since then I am obsessed with skateboarding and can't stop. Although it just didn't feel right having so much fun all the time and taking school as a joke. In eighth grade, my grades dropped dramatically. I use to get descent grades and now I was getting C's, D's and even my first F. I had felt so angry with myself and I wanted to change things all around. My social life in eight grade was getting ahead of my school work and I needed to do something about it because I knew that I was going to go to St. Charles next year and I needed to get my act cleaned up.

My father was also very concerned with my grades and was very disappointed with my academics. My mother had also felt the same truly helped me with my schoolwork to get me where I needed to be in order to get to St. Charles. Eighth grade was my year for Confirmation and also for many others. I had never felt as close to God before in my whole life.

For some reason I took confirmation so seriously and was very close to God at the end of my Eighth grade year. Going from elementary school to Junior High was a very strange time for me. I had felt so confident going into seventh and eight grade hoping for the best to turn out for me. Emotionally I was going through some tough times. I do not know why I was getting depressed a lot of the time and for some reason always seemed to focus on all the bad things going on. I had a few relatives pass away in Junior High and never felt so emotionally hurt in my life before.

Spiritually I was growing very close to God and trying my best to get a better relationship with Him. I was so spiritually connected with God because all the hard time I went through I always went to god first and tried to calm myself down. My mother had remarried to the kindest man in the world. He also gone through a lot of hard times and knew what I had been going through and helped me out. He gave me faith in Good when I doubted Him and when my relationship with God was basically worthless. He spiritually helped me connect with God and resolve all my problems.

Physically I was growing and becoming a young adult although I was still pretty small compared to the average twelve or thirteen teenager. Physiologically I was becoming a very intellectual thinker. Although sometimes I thought pessimistically, I was thinking more optimistically more often then. Going through all these different experiments in school and in life I had certainly learned a lot. I had learned how to correct myself from my mistakes and create new thinking processes. I learned that when you have a good friend, you should take him / her very seriously and don't take them for granted because you will never find another friend out there just like them.

I also learned during this transition that you should truly respect you teachers because they basically have devoted their lives to you to educate you and hopefully help you become the basis of our future. I also learned that I should seriously realize how lucky I am to be alive and have a home to live in and food to survive and a caring loving family to take care of me and help me become who I am. Making a transition from junior high to high school was a variety of feelings. I had started out to be very excited and exuberant over the summer going to high school. Then a lot of my feeling had changed. I went from happy to depressed.

I was being so occupied with homework and so focused with school all the time it just got to overwhelming for me and got to me. Unfortunately on top of all this commotion, just last month my mother's house had burnt down and put my family and me through a very difficult time emotionally, spiritually and physiologically. Fortunately God was kind enough to have my whole family safe and lucky to be alive. This was the most depressing time in my life. Until that day I had never known what it felt like to be completely depressed. I would consider this time a "desert time" in my life because even though family members I had felt very alone and felt that I had lost everything and had also felt very lost and confused with my relationship with God.

It was just too much to handle at one time and my faith with God had been getting farther apart. Thanks for my family and friends they filled me with hope and got me back to normal and got my relationship back with God. Don't get me wrong I wasn't always having depressed times; I was also very lucky and fortunate too. My mother married my step father Charles Walker and changed my spiritual life forever. He helped me connect with God and understand everything I was confused with in my life. He has also been very respectful to my mother and made her very happy which I love to see.

Now being a mature adult I have to act like one too. I have gotten rid of a lot of my childish attitudes. I decided to change my attitude and become a very appropriate gentleman all because of my father sending me to St. Charles Preparatory High School. I changed my life by focusing on school and not letting my social life take over because I need to focus in what really matters in life.

I gave up acting like a little child and getting into mischief the entire time making my parents upset. Becoming a freshman I made it necessary for me to make some considerable goals to achieve. I set a goal saying that I would become a more positive thinker and be more optimistic on everything that I face. At the start of my Freshman year I promised myself that I would try my hardest and achieve the most I can so that I can have a future ahead o f me. Beginning high school was a total transition and reform for me. My life was changed in so many ways, academically, socially, athletically, emotionally and spiritually.

Going into high school I didn't really know what to expect in these areas. At this point, academically I am standing at a pretty consistent average GPA. Although I do wish that I could have a higher one. I feel that I could probably could put little more studying in and take a little more time on doing my homework.

I have been doing fairly well in IPC all this year and haven't had much trouble. On the other hand Latin has been a little bit hard for me this year. I have been struggling all year but have still managed to have a passing grade for all the quarters. Social Studies has been a gradual incline trough out the year. I started out very slow and did very poor on the test. As the year moved on I gradually climbed up the ladder and continued to increase my percentage from a 45% at first quarter interim to an 80% right now.

Algebra has been the opposite. I started out great and had and 87%. But as the year went on it just went downhill. I have been struggling these past two quarters and have been trying to get back together. Religion has been very bumpy this year. In junior high I was getting an A all year.

But until this year I didn't know what to expect. I started out pretty well and had a consistent grade until fourth quarter. Studying has been getting tough and very demanding now that it requires more thought and memorization than just common sense. I am thinking positive and giving it my best shot and trying my hardest to raise my grade this whole year.

I was doing rather well in the beginning of the year in English. Then as the fourth quarter came along, things turned around and my grade dropped dramatically. When I my grades get low its no ones fault but mine. Of course, at first I fell depressed and perhaps angry with myself but then I decide the only way to resolve the problem is to continue trying my best and study harder or maybe even change studying techniques. I came to St. Charles with out having many friends come here.

But as the year went on I made a lot of new friends who are polite, funny and easy to talk to. I just like to hang out with my friends and be who I am and don't worry about being a follower, leader or group member. Although sometimes I do feel like a follower and do stuff just to be accepted. I sometimes do stuff that I normally wouldn't do in front of my friends so that I can just have the chance to fit in and get along. I felt like this for the beginning of my relationship with my friends but then realized that they don't care what I do or try to act like them they just accept me for who I am. I love to get involved in any physical sport because I love a challenge.

I mostly like to play basketball in gym and on my free time and play lacrosse at home. I believe that I am perfect in every way that God made me. I don't need to be faster, or bigger, or stronger to excel in a sport you just need to have confidence and believe in yourself. At this point in time I have kind of lost some of my social life only in order to help me focus on school and homework. I still am keeping in touch with my friends and doing things on the weekends with them but not nearly as much as I use to when I was younger. My best friend is currently Pat Kelly at Bishop Watterson and is also trying to focus on school too.

We have fun every weekend and go to movies, skateboard and just have simple fun as often as we can. I also always hang out with all my fiends that are girls too on the week ends. Currently I don't have a girlfriend sot hat I can remain focusing on school and have a full dedication to school. All of my friends understand all the problems I go through, but sometimes they just don't take it seriously and understand how I really feel about it. Bu t they also are a great help too when I am in the dumps. Whenever I am down or just simply depressed I can easily be cheer me up by my friends.

It's hard to explain my emotional side. It is on and off and I tend to have mood swings. I sometimes seem to feel that everything is just bad or shouldn't have happened and I seem to think pessimistic. Each day I usually feel good or bad, all depends on how that day turns out. I believe that my mother is what I look forward to seeing everyday after school and the thought of being with her helps me be into a good mood.

I also look forward to coming home to my dog Veronica everyday and playing around with her each day after school. Ever since I got a job I started to work on the weekends and not be able to attend church on the weekends. My father then asks me to quit my job so that I can focus on school and so that I can go to church with my family. Now I am going to church every weekend and have gradually had an incline of my faith with God each time I attend church. I believe that God is who he is.

He is the Almighty and creator of heaven and earth and we should all appreciate Him for what he has done for us each and every day in our lives. Ever since my mother's house had burnt down I have felt closer to God because I have realized how lucky I am to have my whole family still safe and alive. Even though I lost all of my possession and some that are irreplaceable I still feel that I am lucky to be here on earth thanks to God. So far in my life I am thankful that my family and I are all safe and unharmed and are doing exceptionally well in life. I am also very happy and thankful that I went to St. Charles because I would of never of met any of the great friends, faculty or staff.

Because I made the decision to go to St. Charles I am also lucky to have such generous and caring friend and faculty who donated money to me help me get on with my life and return to the way my life use to be. All of the special and significant people in my life have affected me so greatly and changed my life significantly. They have all been so kind, generous and caring too me. I hope to accomplish to be just like the people at St. Charles and be as caring, loving and generous a them when I get older. I like the fact that I am very funny and can make a lot of people laugh. That's the first thing people point me out for and recognize me for when they know me.

Most people like the quality that I can make someone laugh when that aren't felling so great too. If I could change something about myself it would have to be the gift of academics. I know that I try very hard to achieve high grades and goals, but for some reason I seem to fall short and not make it to where I want to be. I would want to have the quality or characteristic and someone recognize me as being an outstanding academic achiever. Even though I study hard and do my best most the time I still can't achieve the best grades. I would also probably like to not have the fear of making new friends because I have a tendency to not be who I really am by acting to shy or being who I really am.

I feel pretty comfortable athletically and feel confident in how good I can do in a sport or activity. I think that I fall short emotionally because I seem to always be upset over everything and get angry for no apparent reason. I wish that I could maybe control my emotions a little better and be happy more of the time. I also feel pretty confident in my relationship with God and am spiritually connected with God just fine. Although sometimes I do have my doubts in God and tend to get angry with him when I really shouldn't be. I think that any friend needs to be trustworthy, sharing, kind, forgiving, honest and compassionate.

I would love to be al these things to my friends and family and in some cases improve in some areas. I also believe that I need to maybe change y attitude on the way I look at things at school and take them seriously so that I can become a true student. I could improve on being a little more encouraging u = instead of putting down my teammates in sports and help them achieve their goals just like I want to. I think that I could maybe find a little more time to pray to Jesus and thank Him for just how much he has given me, my friends and family. I usually don't take part in many community activities and know that I should. I wish that I could get a little more involved with my community and return a favor for what all they given me.

I love to build and create things on my free time. I love to try and invent things or try and improve things that might be a hassle to some people. I also find an interest in fixing things or putting things together. I would love to become a future Architect in my later years after graduating from college and excel in my career. At this point my older sister is studying all types of architecture classes and learning to become an architect for her future architecture. I really look up to her and would love to be just like her after I graduate high school.

My mother has also always been a support and encouraged me to excel in something in the field of architecture and become the best person I can. I hope to become the world's greatest architect and have the greatest impact on the world of architecture ever in history. I hope to improve the ways everyone lives and help them to have a home that they can live in. I want to build a house for someone so that they can feel comfortable and relate to the design o f it. Just like the famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright said once "a house is not just a place to live, it's a way to live". When I graduate from college wherever that may be I hope to accomplish the same thought.

After I pass away I want to be remembered as an outgoing and adventurous person who always had fun even when I was depressed. I want o be known as the most creative guy and inspirational person. I want everyone to realize that you don't just have to take life so seriously, you can have fun some time too. Generosity is the most important thing to me. Because so many people have been so generous to me, I wish that when my kids grow up I will focus on telling them that quality and hope they will grow up and do the same. When my life is over and I pass on and am buried I wouldn't bother to have anything on my gravestone except for my name, birth and death date because that all anyone who knew me will need to know in order to remember me.