Personal Narrative: My First Two Years Of High School

The most challenging thing I've ever done in my life thus far was taking Spanish in my first two years of high school. Throughout my whole scholastic career, I never really had to try. I came to class, did the work, and then aced the tests. This history of nonexistent challenge was interrupted by my enrollment into foreign language. For some reason the ideas taught within the class never really resonated with me and for the first time ever I was no longer an “A student.” This took a huge hit to my pride but it made me want to apply myself like I've never done before.

The fact that I couldn't get an A in Spanish completely changed my attitude and habits in regards to school. I immediately began studying, which I’d practically never done throughout my eleven years of schooling up to that point. Many sleepless nights and average test scores characterized my two years of foreign language study. In the end, I received B’s for three semesters and a C the very last one. These marks were not very impressive, in any sense of the word, but I was more proud of these average grades then of any of the A’s I've received since then due to course pushing me to my academic limits.
Ever since taking those Spanish courses I felt changed.
I realized that school was not always going to be easy as well as that you have to rise to the challenges your presented with. This definitely benefited me my last years of high school because I ended up taking about ten AP courses, receiving A’s in each one. I studied for those courses endlessly and stayed up late for those huge homework assignments that were given. In the end, I was able to truly earn that A student status I thought I was entitled to my whole life. Without having taken those Spanish courses in my initial high school years, I would have been much less prepared to know failure and overcome it and now I feel I can truly overcome any
task.