Explain Why I Deserve A Scholarship Essay

I don’t know if I feel that saying that I deserve this scholarship is the right thing to say, but going to Japan has been a goal of mine ever since I can remember. My grandfather was the one who really got me interested in Japan. He would always tell me stories about the culture, people, the little bits of language that he picked up, and the time that he spent there. My grandfather would have loved me going to Japan and would have supported me whole heartedly. I want to go to Japan not only to see what he saw, but also to improve the little that I know and improve myself.
Money is tight in my family, my mother is a single mom who works for the Head Start Program in the Kansas City Public Schools. I have a little brother who is a freshman in high school and an older sister in college. I don’t know if I will be able to afford to go without even a little of this scholarship. Even if I do go money will be tight so this trip would be my Christmas gift and my birthday gift. I know that there are probably people who need this scholarship more than I do and I hope that they get to go too. I am really thankful that I even get this opportunity because there are school districts in close to mine that don’t even offer Japanese as a language. Next year only one school in my district will
I hope to do this with a friend to be able to make my presentation better and to get more than one point of view. I know that I will learn a lot on this trip about myself and about Japan. I feel that everyone should have the opportunity to travel outside the country to learn about other’s language and culture because there is only so much you can learn from a book. I want people to see what my trip was like and go WOW I want to study a language and go too. I just hope that I can inspire people to pursue their dreams of taking a language and then visiting another