Each and everyone have their own strengths and weaknesses and each one of us deals with the situations as we can. In my case there have been many things in my path but I tend to just push them aside and keep walking with my head held high. My life from the start was always every interesting times were tough, as a Hispanic family there was never much money in the household. Both my parents are of Hispanic heritage, they came from families that worked in fields and in cloth factories just to make ends meet. Not much has changed since then, till this day my parents need to work from 8 am to 6pm just to make ends meet and sometimes that’s not even enough.…
Through my high-school rowing career, it was my goal to win first place in at-least one competition, whether it be in a boat with four people, or a boat with eight people. Shortly after I was added to the team, I switched places with the stroke seat in my boat due to my determination and hard efforts. Stroke seat sets the rhythm for the rest of the rowers, and as I quickly improved to be the most powerful and technical rower in my quad boat, I was to be the metronome. That year, we won most of our competitions. For the following rowing seasons, I was set as stroke seat in many of the boats I had competed in. I continued to improve my technique and speed in the boat, and became one of the most reliable stroke seat members in my school's entire…
I wasn’t born in a rich family but we had almost everything we needed. When I was in high school, my parents had to file a bankruptcy and we had to move to a studio which was a small room that has kitchen and bathroom in it. I had to share the room with my parents and my sister who was only 4 years younger than me. I didn’t even have money to pay school or for lunch. I had to get grant and help from school. I never had a pair of new shoes, cloth or a book. I had to wear a uniform that one of my friends’ brother used to wear. I didn’t even have a TV so I was alway left behind when my friends were talking about a TV show. But I never thought that I should ashamed of it. I asked to go out to a girl I liked. I never thought that I had to spend more money than my friends. A few years later we were out of debt.…
My mother was a teenage parent, and my father was not much of a father. My mother struggled with money issues, while also trying to make time for school. I never was homeless, but we never had a place that was just ours until I got around the age of 11. She soon became finically stable, finished school and received many degrees. She had changed her life around and made for a better childhood and future for us.…
When I was a child, my guardians oft apprised to struggle exhaustively to obtain my needs. Although circumstances and society play important roles in their success and happiness, the choice people make plays the major role in their success As Thomas Paine said, "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph." As long as a person is a life he is able to make changes and succeed and this was proven by many people' slide such as Galileo.…
I was 5 years old ,and I was sitting on my brand new trampoline... my parents then came out and said ,” You wanna try something new like maybe softball. “ I of course said ,”YES!!” The next day I had softball practice and I was scared about there being the mean girls on the team. I knew that there were going to be the girls that thought they were the best. And there was. I had one person help me out and that was my dad and mom helped sometimes. I was scared of playing softball once I got on the field ,because the ball moved so fast coming at me. I have wanted to give up softball many many times ,but I did because my dad would push and get me to get in the yard to practice. I know that I will try more new things in the future. For, instance…
My family shaped my entire life. Yet, so did I. I went down a road that many do not travel on until they are teenagers or in their early twenties. I was born in Hayward, Ca. and lived there for about twelve years. In those twelve years, I went through a lot. I went to Palma Ceia Elementary School, constantly getting into trouble every day. My mother had been told by many teachers that I would never pass the sixth grade, let alone go to college.…
People ask me why I care so much. They tell me it’s just a game, get over it. But soccer has never been just a game to me. Soccer has been consuming my time, thoughts, and body since my parents signed me up for small-time recreational soccer twelve years ago that developed into extremely competitive travel soccer. They, perhaps unknowingly, threw me headlong into a life of traveling countless miles, long nights of practice, and an unforgettable amount of tears, sweat, and bloodshed. All which persisted over the course of my extensive soccer career.…
I grew up in a wealthy family full of love and happiness. My father was the owner of a Dry Cleaner and was a successful business man. He was my hero and the person that influenced in my career. He was a positive man and always motivated to all his six children to get educated since he never had the opportunity to do it himself. My father taught us to work hard and to follow our dreams.…
I don’t know exactly where I am going. Maybe this comes as a shock to those who think that because someone has good grades, they have their live figured out. It astonishes me just how mistaken this view is. Being born in Cuba I was limited as to what options I had for my life path. Consequently, the transition from one country to another when I was just twelve years old was very frustrating and tough. Somehow I managed to get a grasp of the language and progressively ascend from the lowest English classes to the most advanced in my school. I never failed to be hard on myself though, and I apply this concept to almost everything I do. However, this way of thinking has not come at no cost. My thinking process can be quite obsessive at times.…
When you don’t feel well, you go to the doctors, and at the doctors, they tell you what's wrong. But what if they can't? For over three years, doctors haven't been able to find what my mysterious condition was.…
I came from a well to do family we never had any problems with money or anything of the sort so I've never really known about hardships.…
Starting soccer when I was only five years old was challenging because of my October birthday I had to play with all the six year olds. My parents had put me in soccer because I was a young boy filled with too much energy. After playing soccer for about a year I decided I wanted to do more, I loved the sport. I started playing club soccer when I was 7 years old, playing for under the wing of Charley Amblo. This was a training team only, it was not till I was nine that I was started playing for a travel team. This was the beginning of where I learned my leadership, time management, and teamwork dynamics.…
I played six water polo games last weekend! I was at the pool from seven o'clock in the morning till seven thirty at night, and I never got the chance to leave the pool deck. I didn’t even get the chance to eat really. I was the first game in the morning, and that last game at night. It was really fun though; I scored two goals. I played in two different age divisions, and we won three out of six games. This weekend I have another big tournament here in Coronado. At least we have home court advantage most of the time. I am not just saying this because it’s my pool, but the B.B.M.A.C. is the nicest pool I have ever been to. To totally change the subject Ms. Noonan gave us a project, that she explained to us with the…
Well, I was born March 25, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio. The beginning of my childhood was a little disorganized with my family moving about a lot because of my father’s job. Though finally in 1944 my parents got divorced and I had to live with my mother instead of my father. My father’s job was one of the reasons for the divorce, but also my mother had a mental illness that drove them apart. My mother and I went to live in a run down house in Toledo, Ohio where I would learn to take care of her instead of the other way around. This made me a have to be my mother’s caregiver instead of the other way around. I finally got away from my mother and the responsibility that I held on my back for far too long when I went to college and Smith college where I studied government. At that time though it was very uncommon for a women to study government, but that did not stop me. When I did finish college though I did not pursue a career in government, but instead…