Adult Development

My Life’s Journey When I look back over the experiences in my life I can truly say that I have had one heck of a life. I have had good times that I can always look back and smile on or laugh at and I have also had bad times that I can look back and learn from or shed a few tears from. This paper will cover just a handful of the experiences that I have had in my life. I will also be using the adult development theories that I have learned to analyze these experiences and explain how they have affected my life up to now and how they will continue to affect my life as I strive to accomplish my goals in the future. The city I grew up in was fairly small. It was good ole Danville, Virginia. I lived with my mom. She had me at the age of fifteen and was a single mom. She showed me how to be a strong independent woman and not rely on others to do things for me. I have one brother and he is now twelve and soon to be thirteen. We lived in Danville for thirteen years of my life and then moved about ten minutes away to Blairs, Virginia, which is just the country part of Danville. I remember changing schools a few times before I went to high school. When I went to high school I was in a new school with no friends since we moved to Blairs the year I started. I had a few cousins there but it was still something I had to adjust to. While in high school I became extremely interested in one club in particular. DECA, an association of marketing students, became my second life while in high school. I did not find out about it until my junior year but as soon as I did I excelled tremendously in it. I was the president of DECA for my school and then I went on to be elected District President over our school district. The competitions were so much fun and kept me busy and out of trouble. I learned how to speak in front of large crowds, which is one of my biggest fears, and also how to be in a position of leadership and actually lead in the

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