Reflection on High School
Final Reflection
Over the months and the meetings I was with my mother interviewing her, I realized that we were very alike. People always claim that we are carbon copies of each other, but I didn’t know that we would have so many things in common just outside of physical characteristics. We talked about religion and what it really means to us and she like, me feels that in order for one to religious all he/she needs to do is believe in god. I also got to know my mother very well, including her background and what she went through growing up. My mother and I were close when I was in 9th and 10th grade; however, my junior year we drifted apart because my mother thought that I should always be studying and I thought the opposite. I wanted to explore during my junior year and since I am Indian, the expectation from me were different. My mother was also upset with me for most of my junior year because I failed my SAT and kept going out with my friends. Around the same time, I got my license, so I was independent from my parents having to drive me. I just started to hate being in my mother’s presence around that time because we would always get into fights. Then summer came and my mother started doing her MBA and everything and then we just stopped talking for a long time. Literally everyday I would come home and sit in my room. Then at the beginning of senior year, I was suffering with all the overload of classes I had taken, and I really needed that family support, which my mother gave me almost immediately. During this time did I realize that my mother just wanted the best for me and that she loved me despite what I did in school or standardized tests. Then I started to talk to her little by little about life and what she thought of it. I constantly asked her about her childhood and why she valued education so much. Then in January we were introduced to the project, which was great because I had the opportunity to take our relationship a step further. During my
Over the months and the meetings I was with my mother interviewing her, I realized that we were very alike. People always claim that we are carbon copies of each other, but I didn’t know that we would have so many things in common just outside of physical characteristics. We talked about religion and what it really means to us and she like, me feels that in order for one to religious all he/she needs to do is believe in god. I also got to know my mother very well, including her background and what she went through growing up. My mother and I were close when I was in 9th and 10th grade; however, my junior year we drifted apart because my mother thought that I should always be studying and I thought the opposite. I wanted to explore during my junior year and since I am Indian, the expectation from me were different. My mother was also upset with me for most of my junior year because I failed my SAT and kept going out with my friends. Around the same time, I got my license, so I was independent from my parents having to drive me. I just started to hate being in my mother’s presence around that time because we would always get into fights. Then summer came and my mother started doing her MBA and everything and then we just stopped talking for a long time. Literally everyday I would come home and sit in my room. Then at the beginning of senior year, I was suffering with all the overload of classes I had taken, and I really needed that family support, which my mother gave me almost immediately. During this time did I realize that my mother just wanted the best for me and that she loved me despite what I did in school or standardized tests. Then I started to talk to her little by little about life and what she thought of it. I constantly asked her about her childhood and why she valued education so much. Then in January we were introduced to the project, which was great because I had the opportunity to take our relationship a step further. During my