Most Difficulty To The Blame Team

Challenges are a part of everyday life, and they change us in different and unexpected ways. The theme challenges create change (within individuals) can be a pivotal part of a text. Characters and people that face challenges have to change their ways of thinking, or even their lives in order to overcome these challenges. The texts Carry On by Rainbow Rowell, Every Day by David Levithan, Looking for Alaska by John Green and Not If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom all show how challenges create change in not just one individual but multiple people throughout the texts.

The boys were trailing closely behind me, gaining speed with every movement. I had nearly made the summit of the rock climbing wall when the unthinkable occurred. Trembling profusely, my foot lost its grasp on the sleek, plastic peg and I started to fall. Freefalling down onto the mulch covered playground, I instantly began to feel the embarrassment of my failure. Loud gasps from the spectators met the loud thud of my body hitting the ground beneath the rock climbing wall. Embarrassment turned my face bloodshot and shattered my spirit, but I gathered enough courage to stand back up. At that moment, with my peers surrounding me laughing at my failure, I felt unhappy, ashamed, and dissatisfied with myself, and I knew that I never wanted to experience those feelings

During the fifth grade, an event occurred that really shaped the way I am. It was the Math Is Cool competition. I was a very shy person, afraid of people around me and dared not to work with anyone. My classmates knew that I excelled at math and wanted me to be a part of their team. Time passes by and it gets closer and closer to the first practice for the competition. A part of me wants to be a part of the team, but a bigger part of me says “no” because I’m too shy and afraid to do so. Everyday, my classmates would try and talk me into it. After some time, I finally gave in and gave myself a try. After many practices, it was time for the actual competition.

Challenges and obstacles are life defining moments in someone’s life that teaches them skills and responses that they can utilize and build upon for the duration of their lives. I would not necessarily call my challenge a moment, I would call it a period or season of my life where I had to learn how to cope with the many personalities of high school students, and differentiate who I would consider my friends. High school is a very stressful environment and peer pressure is very prevalent. Not only is there the fact that you may not attend a high school in the same town as you live, but inevitably, it thrusts you into a world of people you may not even know.

The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?

When I first got put in the challenge program I was very scared. I only knew a handful of people and I didn’t know if it was the best fit for me. However, the past 4 years have proven me wrong. I would have been bored and in challenge when you have teachers like Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Hill, you wonder why you questioned yourself.

The biggest challenge for me this year was doing my work thoroughly. While on the surface this may seem like something that should be easy, for me it was the first year I was really unable to get away with only giving 75% effort on my work. The assignment that really got me to understand this was an active reading assignment we had early in the school year. When we got into class we were told to define the word “affectation”. While I had read over the article I had not taken the time to define every word and got a 0/5. This assignment was my abyss because of the fact that I missed points that I could have easily received had I spent just another 30 seconds to completely finish my homework. The majority of my challenges occurred after my abyss. A major challenge for me came in my writing. At the beginning of the year I did not realize how important it was to truly stick to the writing process and take time with my writing. In past years I had been able to get away with occasionally drifting off topic during my writing and it took me a while to understand how exactly to approach a paper. Throughout the year I went through a transformation in my writing. After a few writing assignment I began to understand how to approach a paper and my writing has grown since. This year in humanities has left me with a gift. Through Humanities I learned a couple things that I will take away with me and use not just for the rest of highschool but for the rest of my life. One thing I took away was how to approach my work. When facing a large assignment it is important to not be intimidated and procrastinate starting your work. While the first few days of such an assignment can be challenging if you focus and knock out parts of the assignment slowly and concisely the end result of your work will be much better and your last few days doing the assignment will be far less

My stomach twisted and scrunched up into knots after gazing up at the structure. The dreaded day had finally come: the day that I would conquer the high ropes course at summer camp. As a fourteen-year old girl who was frightened by heights of any kind, strapping on a harness and climbing up a bunch of shaky poles and shivering wires was definitely the last thing I wanted to do. Nonetheless, peer pressure got the best of me, so in order to satisfy my friends and to avoid being teased, I made the decision that I would climb up the ropes course no matter how much the voice in my head screamed at me to stop.

A significant challenge I have faced in my life was when I went through survival training during the summer of 9th grade when I was apart of a military youth program known as the California Cadet Corps. Known as the hardest feat in the program, Cadets who enlist in it must survive 5 days in the woods without food, water or shelter accompanied 3 strangers in order to receive one of the highest honors, the red beret. Though at first the task sounds lively, it quickly transforms into a living nightmare where one must endure hunger, cold nights, and grueling feelings of regret and homesickness that nearly made me pick up the security radio given to us and say the shameful words, I quit. If not for the group of daring individuals alongside me,

Everyone goes through a challenge at some point in their life. I went through a challenge last year at the beginning of my freshman year attending Foothills Christian High School. Last year, my freshman year I did not know anybody starting the school year. This made me super nervous to start high school. I was also concerned about the three days a week at school and two days homeschool. One of my challenges was going to school and parts of that challenge was not knowing anybody starting school, having to go to school on three days a week instead of five, and not knowing the campus well.

To begin, one quote that stood out to me was, “At International High, there are more than four hundred walking memoirs waiting to be translated.” (p. 39) This made me realize that all the students that attend International High have been through some sort of struggle or event that lead them to come to a place like that. Ann was trying to get her students to answer the prompt: What is your personal power, but got answered as what is the worst

The challenges I have overcome would be getting to know my classmates. I tend to keep to myself, but this program make you step outside of your comfort zone. This class is all about stepping out, learning new things, and being able to be comfortable with these challenges. This class taught me to trust more people and trust is not something I give out easily. This class also make you look at yourself and makes you comfortable in your own skin.

The anticipation before the trip got worse as time went by. The type of person who wanted to be the least involved was definitely me. I was always the type of person to get worried over the small things. Instead of seeing the big picture, I found myself analyzing all the tiny details. Approaching conformation class with this attitude was hard. I was never really giving these classes a chance. Conformation class was the last thing I wanted to be doing on my Sunday nights. The reason I went to these classes was because my parents forced me too. The only place I wanted to be was at home on my computer. The days went by and the summer drew closer. The time was finally here to register for the trip.

My greatest example of challenge came from my engagement in Eaton Girl’s Basketball. I have always played basketball since before I can remember so it was no surprise when I decided to play as a freshman. Two years prior to my freshman year, I had torn my ACL, this had changed the way my knees functioned and provided me with several obstacles from that point forward. I learned to deal with this and made the decision to continue playing. Just before my sophomore year, at a summer camp, I twisted my knee and tore my ACL yet again, this time on the opposite leg. I missed out on my sophomore season but stayed on as a manager. I attended every practice, traveled with the team, and kept statistics during games.

The biggest task was learning how to write my name. At first, I thought reading and writing would be fun. I used to watch my siblings read and write at home, and I thought it was fun. My teacher always corrected me because I could not write my name correctly. The other kids did not want to be in a group with me, and I was always chosen as the last member of the group. I remember a time when my teacher asked me which group I wanted to join. When I chose one of the groups, the group leader said that they would not like me to join their group because I was a slow learner. That was the worst thing I have ever been told by another person. I felt really devastated and cried the whole day. I thought that I would never read or write well because I was the only kid with a major problem. I felt like I would beat that group leader for making such a comment.