Getting My Driver's Licence

Some people have jumped out of planes, some people have dropped out of school, and others have stolen food from stores. Everyone has taken risks in their lives. I have taken risks myself. I have jumped off of a 10 foot cliff rock on a lake. I have shaved my brother’s eyebrows when I was younger and I also rode a skateboard down a hill. However, the biggest risks that I have taken is driving without a license. When I was 15, 16, and 18 years old, I paid for taking those risks.

My single biggest accomplishments that i have achieved, is graduating from middle school and starting a new phase in my life, this is inportant to me because i have turned from a boy to a man. I have also learned priceless lessons and values from the people around me that helped me become who i am. It helped me be defined as someone else and not just a shell of a person going through school, what i do now defines the life i have, and will forever be me. I said goodbye to me elementary and middle school teachers that inpacted my life

Moving from Guatemala to the USA. My whole family move to the United States; my whole view of life change. There was more to know. Many different thing and perspectives.

Everyone has an event in their life that helped changed them in some way or stood out to them in some type of way in their life. Rather if it is, something like a birth of a child, a death of a family member or even receiving a job. A significant event in my life and helped me grow as a person was when I decided to pack up and move to Houston, Texas. My move to Texas may have been short but in that short period it helped me to grow to be more independent and to provide for myself and much more. When I made the moved to Texas, I moved with family members that I knew but I was not close with it.

An accomplishment that set my life forward and taught me multiple traits and allowed my character to develop would have to be when I set out, got a job, and saved up enough money to buy my first car. It was a summer I'll always remember. After my sophomore year of high school I set out during the summer and got a job at Glidden Fence Company. I was nervous not working at all previous to working at Glidden and started wondering whether I had gotten too far ahead of myself. I was assigned to a three man crew and started my career as a fence builder, the crew leader was super nice to me and guided me in every step as I began to learn how to do it myself. So long story short I threw myself into a foreign environment unaware of what the

Every individual comes to a point in their lives during which they reach a tipping point between adolescence and adulthood. I happened to reach that tipping point when my mom told me the story of how our family got to America and to the position we are in now. Before I heard this story, I used to complain about small issues all the time, and take important things for granted, but after hearing the story, I am extremely thankful for how we are living and all that we have. I felt like a changed man due to my family's past and it gave me unbelievable amounts of determination to work hard and to become successful in the future, not only for myself, but also so that I could make sure my family would never be in that situation ever again.

This is my complete and honest truth. Personally, I feel like my most significant mark of adulthood occurred as a string of events following the last day of junior year. I expected to experience an average teenage summer, sleeping in late, watching my favorite shows, going to the fair, hanging out with friends… all that good stuff. Instead, I spent the months of June, July, and August as a visitor in a variety of hospitals and treatment centers. My mom has battled severe alcoholism for several years now, but last summer was the time when everything just collapsed. I felt forced to grow up because being mature was the only option when my mom needed help.

Every little mistake and success story in my high school years qualify as a factor to my personal change but by far the biggest experiences were definitely my efforts of maintaining a good GPA and the participation in the National Honor Society. Trying to achieve and keep up with my GPA was harder than it appeared but due to all the effort I can anticipate that whatever the future has in store for me I will be ready to endure. Not only was the experience of my GPA life-changing but it was also the door to bigger opportunities, one being the National Honor Society. Although I doubted myself almost every step of the way I can truthfully say the experience was transformative in the sense that it taught me morals I will cherish throughout the rest of my journey.

Growing Up We all have accomplishments in life I just think mine changed me in a greater way than most. As a kid I didn't really care about many things especially school. The only thing I really bother to find interest in was probably sports and the way others thought about me. Then came a day where nothing really mattered to me but my academics.

Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.

For me to discuss a single event that transitioned me from childhood to adulthood would be impossible. As people grow, they experience many events and those experiences are what shape us into the people we are today. Starting from my origins, I was born in a dense city called Reading. Throughout the city there are people roaming the streets from different ethnicities. Growing up was tough, it didn’t matter who you were because you were always surrounded. You did one wrong move and someone would look at you differently. Hearing stories about my young childhood, made me a little sad. My dad was never around, and my mom was either at work, or inside trying to take care of the house. At first it was only me and my older brother. We got along fine, but as your average pair of street kids, we would get in trouble from time to time. Since we didn’t have too much money, our family tried to get by with what we got. We couldn’t buy all the toys that we wanted, and even if we did, there was a good chance

What is a big accomplishment in your life? Making it to the Superbowl with my football team. My team worked really hard to get that far. Unfortunately, we ended up losing the Superbowl. Even though they didn’t win the big game, it still meant a lot to me because

The event that marked my transition from childhood to adulthood is when I was accepted into the People to People Student Ambassadors Program. This program was started by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956 for a lifelong crusade for peace that everyday citizens wanted a more peaceful world and could achieve it more effectively without government interference. The People to People Student Ambassadors Program progressed into an academic

The moment that changed me as an individual was when I read a simple book, a book filled with controversy over the message advocated within it even though it was merely the memoirs of a mother and her family. The book was "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" by Amy Chua and it's a fascinating account of how a Chinese mother raised her two daughters under a strict, authoritarian tradition. Her parenting style was incredibly important for me when I felt like I had no agency in my life, even though I did. It wasn't until my junior year that I read the book and it opened my eyes to a new, matured me that was hardworking, determined, and willing to accept my limitations.

As a child one of the most positive events that impact my life that broadened my knowledge about what it means to be somebody. It was a world famous event that was televised many years ago the trip to the moon. The trip of the moon was televised when I was still a child. This event has had a positive impact in my life. As a child, I had the dream of becoming an astronaut. To become an astronaut unfortunately that dream never came through. Now as a parent, I encourage my daughters to put close attention to those positive events that they may encounter in their lives, because one of those events may lead them to a