My Learning Fall & Rise

When school had barley started I was honestly very excited & nervous to be back. I was nervous because everyone I knew had always told me that Junior Year is the toughest year of all four. August 12th 2019, is a day I remember perfectly, I woke up very anxious to see my friends again & especially meeting my new teachers. I remember, getting dropped off and I told myself that morning , that I was gonna do whatever it takes to keep my 4.0gpa and especially getting more involved in school. Whether it was going out to Footballs games, Clubs or whatsoever.

The day I met Dr. Preston, I remember telling myself that I was pretty nervous because he had given us the option for the online coarse or to do the old school book class. I was really surprised that he did that on the first day of meeting us. He gave us the option on how we wanted to learn and I really admired that. 

The online course that we would be doing was maintaining a blog and always keeping up with our journals, blog post & notes books. A risk & mistake that I took in this course was not uploading my poems that Dr. Preston assigned us to learn and memorize & upload on our blog. I never uploaded one video of me doing that because I was so shy to do it and always had some kind of doubt in myself & that was a mistake that I did. I should have not doubted myself and should have done what was assigned to me. No matter how hard I tried to memorize the poem i couldn’t do it & I strongly believe that was another mistake I did was by not practicing enough and should have had believed in myself more no matter how difficult it was for me. 

I honestly don’t really have a routine when it comes to doing my work, I just do what I have to do. For example, whenever I get home I usually just do my chores and then my homework but sometimes i don’t because I always end up getting caught up in something. Though, everyone usually tells me that I need to start making a routine because I shouldn’t just rely on time to do my work.  

Furthermore, this year has been a crazy journey for me outside and inside of school. I know for a fact that I’m not the same person I was back in August, this class has showed me not to be afraid to share your own thoughts & especially, speak up what you feel or believe in. This class, has helped me get out of my comfort zone for example, being interviewed in front of my colleagues was something I really enjoyed doing. Dr. Preston, showed me that it’s okay to be myself in this class & it’s not an ordinary class like I said before, we got to teach ourselves in the decisions we make in this class and will learn the hard way in the long run & get to teach our blog audience what we feel , think & believe. Next spring, I tend to focus on my goals, my future, and just especially grades. Something that I’m willing to sacrifice in the Spring would be, cutting off anyone who doubts me and tries to get in my way of doing my school work or my goals. Whether it’s my friends who want to hangout, I need to put my school work first before anything.