Final Exam: My Sophmore Year

  I am going to be writing about my sophomore year. This year has had its good and bad times for me. I remember the happy and good times but I also remember the bad and stressful times. This year has been very stressful for me I have had to work really hard to pass my classes. I have been strong and believing that I can do it and now I am on the right track to graduate. My parents are always telling me to try harder. That’s why they brought me to this country to get an education and have a good life. My father works everyday and only gets one day off at work. So whenever I am not doing well in school he gets frustrated. He tells me that he works for me to put a roof over my head and feed me, and what I do to repay him is slack in school that’s not right. After he told me that I knew that he was right so I am now starting to try harder in my sophomore year.


  The beginning of this year was pretty hard for me. I was in the middle of switching schools. My mother moved me schools because I failed my freshman year. So I ended up here. I also was in the middle of moving houses. That was another reason that my mom moved me schools. I was in brand new neighborhood and I didn’t know anybody up there. The only person that I knew was my cousin. Thanks to him I got to make new friends and some that even come to this school. Now I wouldn’t be so lonely anymore. I started going to school it wasn’t that bad I started off as a freshman because as I said I failed all of last year. Everything was going well until the counselors called me and said that they were going to move me up to the tenth grade. That really messed me up.

  When I heard the counselor tell me that they needed to move me up to the 10th grade I was excited because most of the friends that I knew were tenth graders. But then the counselor also told me that I would have to make up the credits that I needed on my own time. That was bad news. I was really upset because I was doing fine in the freshman building and retaking all the classes that I failed and then they just move me up to the tenth graders. I joined them 3 weeks into the school year. So the other bad thing now was that I was now really behind. I caught up a bit and I remembered that I still needed to make all those credits so I went to go see the counselor. She told me that they were offering credit recovery that was perfect. The good thing about it was that they had two classes to offer and they were both free. I ended up taking both of them.

  By Christmas break I was really stressed out and tired. I had taken both credit recovery classes and passed them I also passed most of my regular classes. I was tired because I would go to school every day from 7am to 5pm. That’s like about 10 hours. My mom felt bad for me being all day at school but that’s what I get for slacking and knowing that I could’ve passed the class the first time. Now it wasn’t over for me yet I still had to take credit recovery again for the next semester. I took the classes and I also passed those. It has been really hard staying after school and making up my credits. But I always just tell myself IT WILL BE WORTH IT.

  Well this is my last paragraph of the year. It’s been a good year. It has been a lot of hard work for me but I did it I made it through the whole year, I struggled but I did it. I think that I really grew up I still slack once in a while but not as much as I used to. I am looking forward to graduating on time. My counselor told me that if I keep on working hard and if I believe than I can do it. I am now taking summer school classes to make up my remaining credits. My teacher is Mr.Leh I’m not sure if I spelled it right but yea he is the best English teacher I have had. I learned and will learn more from him hopefully I have him as a teacher next year to I like learning from him and he Is a fun teacher. Well that’s all I got Thanks Mr for teaching me what I know and see you in summer school ha-ha.