Personal Narrative: My Desire To Take Latin More Than Any Other Class

Into my second semester I went on a road to clean up the damage I did last semester, by retaking calculus 1, but when It came to Spanish I took Spanish 3 because it was the only class

In fact, it was the worst part of my entire year. It was by far the most challenging class I had ever taken. At one point it even brought me to tears. I was trying as hard as I could. I was working with my teacher in the mornings and in the afternoons. Yet, I was still failing tests and quizzes. I remember taking this one quiz three times before I finally got a grade that I deemed acceptable. It was the first time I had ever felt inadequate in the classroom. I felt like my brain did not work anymore. It was a difficult time for me. I had always excelled in honors courses, and I was doing well in my other AP classes. It was this one class that could not seem to figure out. I did not understand why my performance was so poor. Granted, the whole class struggled with this course. But, they too started to make small improvements. I had managed to maintain between a D and an F throughout the course of the semester. This was disappointing because I wanted to do well. I did have some small victories, but it was not the kind of performance that I was proud of. I was not used to giving something my all and getting nothing in

I was extremely wary of the class: my first attempt had made me afraid of college algebra. But once the class finally started, I realized my worries were all for nothing. I was finally able to understand the content of the class, and I was doing very well on all of my assignments. So well in fact that I had an “A” in the class. I couldn’t believe that after my first attempt had failed so horribly that I was able to make such an amazing

AP Language and Composition was not the easiest course I have ever taken, but it was definitely the most beneficial. At the beginning of the course I was not the best writer. However, as the year went on I gradually learned how to correctly type college level essays. It took many trial and errors to get to the level of writing I am at now, but now my writing is better than it has ever been. On top of Mr. Hamilton successfully teaching me how to write, I also learned that it is very important to have good time management and to be able to finish homework on time. When I was not finishing my homework I would become lost in every group discussions. As the year went on, I began to sit down and do my homework thoroughly every night. Once I started doing that the course started to become less difficult for me. This class is still going to be a difficult, the only difference is whether a student is willing to put in the work it takes to make it a little less stressful than it is. While this class was extremely stressful and time-consuming, I am grateful that I was able to learn the lessons I did before I went off to

This time last year I was in an AP World History class that changed my life. The class was taught be Mr Joy, an oddball with a shiny dome and tattoos that i immediately recognized as a kindred spirit. He had a way of keeping us on our toes and engaged every day, and not just because we had no way of knowing when he was going to emit a piercing scream, start talking in a british accent, or announce a graded discussion-but because he knew how to get through to us. He inspired and challenged me and my classmates despite the enormous amount of information we needed to learn.We cared enough to do our best because what he was teaching us mattered. The history we were learning about directly affected the present we were living in, and slowly, we began to see the world differently.

I was right; the class was incredibly challenging. I had had a subpar general chemistry course in my sophomore year, so there were many basic concepts that I did not understand. I realized that I would have to work a lot harder in this class than

I have been taking Latin throughout my whole high school career. It is not always the popular choice among people when languages come into play, but having already taken some Spanish and French I was looking for something different. That is where Latin came in. I was not expecting the course to be easy, and at times it most definitely is not, but I had no idea just how much I would come to love it. With how much I enjoyed the actual class, it was not difficult to get me to join the Latin club.

At the beginning of the semester, I assumed that this was going to be similar to other English classes that I have taken in the past. I thought we would be writing using textbook formats or ways that I had been taught in the past. I thought that the professor would have the same outlook on the course and how assignments should be completed, compared to other English courses. I was wrong.

From a young age, I have had an interest in reading and writing. When my mother found out she was pregnant with me, my sister, Kaitlyn, was four years old. Kaitlyn had just begun reading when she found out she would soon have a baby sister. My sister, eager to share her reading skills, begged my mother if she could read stories to me while I was still in the womb. Once I was born, the story-telling continued. I gravitated towards books at an early age, most likely because my sister was reading by the time I was big enough to hold a book. Reading has always been around me. Bright colors caught my attention as a child. If a book had a colorful cover, I wanted someone to read it to me. When I was three years old, I started learning how to read in my preschool class. While learning to talk, my way of telling someone I wanted or needed something was to point. My mother would tell me, “use your words”. Because my preschool teacher

The first couple days of class were not as bad as I thought they would be. I was pretty lonely at first because I had no friends, but a couple of days later I started becoming more social and made a couple friends. My classes are exactly what I expected, I knew they would be harder than high school but still do-able. One thing that was new to me was that my teachers didn’t know me because they are all big lecture classes. The reason why I like my writing class because it’s a small class and my professor is nice, outgoing and makes the class fun. The work isn’t too overwhelming yet, but blackboard is very confusing sometimes and I missed some assignments.

I’ve realized that my love for education, especially for languages, did not diminish when my parents stop being interested in my road of education. I understand that they are busy with my little brother and sisters, and I appreciate what they’ve done to give me a better environment. So I try to do my best in everything, partly because of my parents, but overall, I would like to challenge myself to see my extent. Disregarding the opinion that Asians should stick to math and science courses, I link myself with liberal arts courses, such as AP English, AP US History, AP Japanese, Latin, etc. This is my interest, and I would like to pursue

The 2014 National Latin Convention was well underway. Everyone from each school clapped and cheered as we met at our first general assembly. The officers introduced themselves individually, each person explaining the importance of Latin in their daily lives along with the many ways that Latin conventions have changed the way they interact with other students. These speeches sparked an idea in my mind along with the minds of few of my close friends. After assembly concluded we began discussing the importance of each subject in our daily lives and inevitably our future. Opinions varied amongst the group members, with the most important classes ranging from math and science all the way to various arts and history classes. This is where a distinct

Growing up as a fluent Spanish speaker, I felt that I knew everything there was to know about Spanish and the different Spanish speaking cultures. However, my high school Spanish teacher made me second guess myself about everything I thought I knew. In that Spanish class, I realized that all I knew wasn't all there was so know because once you learn something there is always something new to learn. Now my senior year in high school, I was registering for classes in college and I honestly just wanted to get classes out the way so I wouldn't have to take them when I got to college. I had one more left and it was in between biology and Spanish and to be honest I was going to go with biology because I want to be a plastic surgeon and biology would be the class to take for that. However, I thought back to my sophomore year and I remembered how much I had learned from Spanish back then. So, I decided to take Spanish because of how much more I can

The two subjects I have had trouble with in school have been Spanish and English. It comes to a surprise to many people that I struggle in Spanish given the fact that I'm Hispanic. But people don't realize how difficult it is to learn two languages at once. During my freshman year in high school when I first started taking Spanish my grammar was really bad.. One factor that contributed to my difficulty in Spanish was the fact that I never had to write in Spanish until I got to high school . I could speak Spanish efficiently because I was raised in a Spanish speaking family. But I never knew how to spell most words because I never had to spell them. So when I took Spanish I made many errors like not putting an accent in the right place, or misspelling

I have taken both Spanish and French since the 7th grade and quickly found that I was good at and enjoyed learning foreign languages. I continued taking both throughout high school and they soon became my favorite subjects in school; sometimes they were the only classes I genuinely looked forward to going to. I knew that I wanted to continue taking foreign languages in college, become fluent, and travel abroad. The problem, however, was that I also knew I wanted to be premed. I knew it would be impossible for me to double major in Spanish and French along with staying on the premed track. I struggled with the thought that I would ultimately have to choose between Spanish and French, which I loved both equally.