Freshman-Junior
Learning Chinese for 3 years now is very difficult but very useful too because someday I want to go to China and be able to speak Chinese fluently. I think learning a language is the very important because this allows us to communicate better with other people and it makes us more aware that learning a new language is not easy, which gives us a valuable perspective to those who immigrate from a different country.
Junior
Ever since I like to read (about sophomore year) this essay gave me a different view about reading because if you know Nathaniel Hawthorne he is a great vivid writer and makes great rhetorical devices. Before we typed up this essay, we had to read sections of his book that showed any rhetorical devices. When we finished the reading the sections, we had to use two rhetorical devices. I chose Pathos and Imagery/Sensory details. I knew very little about rhetorical devices and I really wanted to learn. I now read and notice which rhetorical device it goes into.
Senior
I joined the colts soccer team and I played for JV. I believe that playing for colts high school soccer was a great way to communicate more to my team and get along with each others differences. When I made the team there was a girl in the JV team that was always negative. She would always say that we would lose, we were not a good team, and would always compare to her own soccer team. How they are much better than we are. All of the girls did not like her negativity so we had to communicate with her and tell her not to tell us negative stuff like that. When she did she did not listen to us. We talked to our coach about it and fixed the situation. I also improved in my soccer skills and worked very hard for it. Ever since I started playing soccer I think hard work gets you to places and opens more opportunities.