Personal Narrative: Continuing And Improving My Personal Development

I unzipped my coat as I stepped into the warm basement. I crinkle my nose as the bitter smell of alcohol hits it. I feel like I should be used to it by now, I go to concerts at least once a month. We walk over to the small table overflowing with merchandise. It’s a tradition to by the opening bands CD.

My dad was born on April 23rd and that date always brings fond memories. When April comes I always find myself thinking first of him and then my mom who was born at the end of May. I sure miss them both. As the years roll on and I think back it really boggles my mind to think that my parents had to leave everything behind when they fled their homeland Latvia during WWII. They started up a new life in New York City as most likely none of you have ever had to do literally from scratch. They had no furniture, no belonging only the things they had with them from the DP or Displaced Persons Camp in Germany.

It has been years since I have had to write a paper, so writing the reflection paper made me nervous. Since having my reflection paper handed back to me, I noticed some skills that I had improved. On the other hand, I also realized I had more skills I need to work on still such as comma splices, using more transitions and the use of better word choices.

Overall, my first semester has been going pretty well. The semester is going like a roller coaster up, down, and fast. I have some bad days and some good days. Through this semester, I have many challenges I faced which I honestly did not want to face. Even though I just wanted to dodge or run away from the challenges, I still face them and fought through them. Some challenges I face this semester, hopefully not in the next, are procrastination, time management, and laziness. I have not only gone through challenges; I have also gone through successes. I am proud of turning assignments on time, passing tests and quizzes, completing my SCR points, and being involved in clubs. Being in Biomed has helped me grow as a student in the area of knowledge.

Hi iam Edgardo Flores i was born in casa grande, az not that far away from our state capital,Phoenix, Az.theres nothing better to do in a hot summer than going out with the friends to a lake and have a blast riding jet skis boats and my favorite, swimming!My activites of the day are shooting,riding horses,and my favorite one is quad riding.Thats right! ive been doing these fun exciting hobbies since i was 9 years old.pretty young huh?

I plan to improve this disposition by having boundaries and limits. It does not matter if the client shares the same cultural beliefs from me, I have a lot of compassion and go an extra mile to help them. I get attach with clients right away because I see a connection with them. I have noticed that clients take advantage of my empathy. I need to work on how to understand my clients but also have limits with them so they will not take advantage of my kindness.

I am ecstatic to begin my journey in nursing school. There are a few things one would need to know to determine just how passionate I am. The subjects that make me most excited are people that have inspired me, past experiences with online classes, and the possibility to challenge my mind within the classes I am taking. As I begin to think about elaborating these points I feel enthusiastic for my future. I cannot believe nursing school is finally here!

1. The 2nd case study made me reflect on my first head coaching job in football. I was hired by a school in south Texas with the help of a friend I coached with in Oklahoma. He had moved back to his hometown and started teaching and coaching at his high school. He contacted me about the opening and two months later I was hired. I hired him to be one of my assistants and even made sure that he was paid well as a thank you. I was very disappointed with the way he coached that year. I had already make arrangements to move him to a non-coaching position for the next season. I realize I never spoke with him about my expectations or made him aware of how I felt during the season. I identity with Dr. Skinner is some regards. I was caught up in the other aspects of teaching, coaching, and AD duties, I neglected to take care of that issue. I understand that it is OK to hire a trusted colleague or friend but the expectations of them should not be any different of anyone else.

While big events can make major changes, little events define how we become as adults. My earliest memories is at a five year-old. It is one spot where I have been to, in my thoughts, more than any other has. In this memory, it was evening, as I stood on a dirt path. It was an unpaved driveway for the church parsonage.

I am a first generation student and spring semester is my second semester in college. I got no help in the beginning of fall semester in the process of class selection. I got in math class late and was unable to catch up to class that lead me to drop the class. But this semester, I got all the opportunity to get involve and to pursue my dream. I am working hard as possible to do well on every class and outside of the class. I am also involve in community, representing community throughout state being a youth leader and doing volunteer in my free time. This summer I am planning to make a transformative summer taking a class from world most prestigious university. I hope the class I take this summer will help me get ready to pursue my goal of

After self- assessing my development throughout the years, it has really opened my eyes to how much I grew as a person. I believe that I have resolved all my issues with each of the stages, although one stage took me a little longer to complete. The sixth stage I am still in progress in anticipations to successfully complete it. Assessing my life I saw growth and understanding of what I personally view, although there is more to learn and experience that life will bring. The second stage was my most difficult stage to process through because of my parents’ separation and upsetting to see it consumed most of my life, but I am happy that I can finally after all these years move pass my parents’ divorce and accept it. Moving pass an emotional

At the end of my sophomore year (June 2014) I was placed in foster care due to problems at my previous school and how they resulted in a deterioration of my mental health. Despite my lower GPA I would say that the emotional maturity I gained from that period of my life was well worth the sacrifices that it resulted in. Since moving with my foster family and attending my current high school I have improved drastically, including challenging myself with AP classes and being enrolled in community college courses offered for credit hours at my school. At the same time I have held a part-time job as a cashier for a region based grocery store since August 2014. In my junior year I averaged a 3.4 GPA and was involved in extracurricular activities at my school.

Reading easy books was all I ever wanted to do but people told me that's not how you're going to get anywhere in life and they were right. So when I entered this class, it was hard at first but I had to try and challenge myself. The ways I challenged myself were to beat other people in reading a bigger book, Make sure the book was longer than 300 pages, and read more. The first way I challenged myself was to get a bigger book than most people and see if I could finish it. When I finished a bigger book it gave me more confidence so I kept doing it. The most pages I read in a book before was 200 but after this year the longest book i read was 450 pages. That is how I challenged myself this year. Next I challenged myself to read books that were

One year can change everything and you can learn more than you can imagine. I spent my senior year as Mr. Bob Calderone’s apple tutor and there has been a lot of different things that can be taken away with that time. With that, I have learned a lot of useful things that I can apply to everyday life to help other people or even myself. Being in his classroom has shown me how to communicate better with students, or people in general, manage my time to work efficiently, and how to enjoy the little moments of working with my teacher and the students.

We all grow up fearing change, weather its first day of school or losing a loved one. Change can be freighting. I believe that life is series of on ongoing changes and how we adapt to them reveals true character. My personal challenges have set a foundation of who I truly am as a person today. Traveling to some may seem adventurous or exciting but for scared a five-year-old traveling terrified me.