College Admissions Essay: Moving To Texas High School
The education I have received from my parents has been fundamental in my personal development. “I will give my best and I will not accept less than that” that was how my father made me start my day. Since I was little my parents erased the words “ I can not” and “I do not know” from my vocabulary. They taught me that I had to face my responsibilities and problems no matter what, for this reason, I was astonished when we moved to Texas two years ago and they told me that I could not be in 11th grade.
For 15 years I lived in Mexico, during the summer of my tenth grade, my parents took the decision to move to Texas. When we arrived in Texas it was the beginning of a storm. Supposedly, I was going to start eleventh grade, however, the school district I was part of did not think the same. Apparently I did not have the credits required and also they thought I was too young to be in that grade. Given that, they wanted me to repeat ninth grade as if that was even an option for me. Therefore, my options were: stay in Texas with my family and lose two years of high school, move to California or Mexico where I could be in 11th grade. Of course, I did not want to leave my family, but also I did not want to hurt my future, thus why I decided to move to California.
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California for five months and I was frightened, but I did not want my parents to be worried and that is why I did everything I could to make them proud. Living without my family made me more responsible and mature. I spend most of my days alone and studying, it was my first school year in a foreign country, the whole system was different and I was trying to adapt myself to all the changes that I was going through. Within my fourth month in California I was depressed, I missed my family, although I did not let my emotions affected my role in the school instead I burned my lashes off to have good grades. After the effort I put, I moved to Texas again with the hope that cursing one semester in eleventh grade would help me to stay in it unfortunately I was wrong, they still pulled me one year down. I felt like nothing of what I did in California mattered, nor the sacrifices, nothing, but I have not given up yet. Every day I stayed in school until 6 pm working on credit recovering trying to make up the credits I was missing. Not even a month had passed when my life changed completely. My father was forced to leave us and since of that money was scarce. My mother did not have money to pay the rent so we had to move out of the house we lived in because. We moved four times during my second semester, but regardless all the struggles that I was facing, I always tried to succeed in high school.
At the end of the school year, we moved to Illinois and opportunities began to knock the door.
What I lived in the past two years taught me that I have to be open minded and make every situation as a learning experience. Sometimes things do not go the way we wanted them to, but that does not mean that that is wrong. I got mad when I was pulled down one year, but I realize that having another year gave me the opportunity to prepare myself better for college. I was able to take courses of my interest and that probably I would not have taken if things had happened in a different way. I now know that I can face any problem with determination and hard work because giving up it is not an option for
me.
For 15 years I lived in Mexico, during the summer of my tenth grade, my parents took the decision to move to Texas. When we arrived in Texas it was the beginning of a storm. Supposedly, I was going to start eleventh grade, however, the school district I was part of did not think the same. Apparently I did not have the credits required and also they thought I was too young to be in that grade. Given that, they wanted me to repeat ninth grade as if that was even an option for me. Therefore, my options were: stay in Texas with my family and lose two years of high school, move to California or Mexico where I could be in 11th grade. Of course, I did not want to leave my family, but also I did not want to hurt my future, thus why I decided to move to California.
I lived in …show more content…
California for five months and I was frightened, but I did not want my parents to be worried and that is why I did everything I could to make them proud. Living without my family made me more responsible and mature. I spend most of my days alone and studying, it was my first school year in a foreign country, the whole system was different and I was trying to adapt myself to all the changes that I was going through. Within my fourth month in California I was depressed, I missed my family, although I did not let my emotions affected my role in the school instead I burned my lashes off to have good grades. After the effort I put, I moved to Texas again with the hope that cursing one semester in eleventh grade would help me to stay in it unfortunately I was wrong, they still pulled me one year down. I felt like nothing of what I did in California mattered, nor the sacrifices, nothing, but I have not given up yet. Every day I stayed in school until 6 pm working on credit recovering trying to make up the credits I was missing. Not even a month had passed when my life changed completely. My father was forced to leave us and since of that money was scarce. My mother did not have money to pay the rent so we had to move out of the house we lived in because. We moved four times during my second semester, but regardless all the struggles that I was facing, I always tried to succeed in high school.
At the end of the school year, we moved to Illinois and opportunities began to knock the door.
What I lived in the past two years taught me that I have to be open minded and make every situation as a learning experience. Sometimes things do not go the way we wanted them to, but that does not mean that that is wrong. I got mad when I was pulled down one year, but I realize that having another year gave me the opportunity to prepare myself better for college. I was able to take courses of my interest and that probably I would not have taken if things had happened in a different way. I now know that I can face any problem with determination and hard work because giving up it is not an option for
me.