Something about myself
This is one of the last essays I write in the Advance course. It has to be about me, and to be honest, I found it really hard. It is easy to talk about other topics: advantages, disadvantages, differences, controversies, etc.; but it is not so easy to talk about myself. Well, my name is Adriana, I am 16 years old and I decided to tell you about how my life has been developing until now: my childhood, puberty and adolescence.
I am the third child, after Sandra, my sister; and Ricardo, my brother. I was born on August 15, exactly at 11:30 a.m. I use to cry a lot because I was hungry all time! As is common, at the age of one or two, I learned to walk and talk. In 2000, I went to Andino School, in which I still studying until now. At the same year, I got “meningoencephalitis”, a sickness which I remember very well because I almost die as a consequence of it. Then, my childhood was really beautiful; the only things I did were just playing, eating and sleeping.
Psychologist Asusena Básquez says, “As children are growing, they want to have all kind of experiences; no matter if they are dangerous, they just want to have them”. When the puberty started, I also started to experience new activities. I wanted to do everything! The theater group, the volleyball team, the Leaders group, the swimming group, etc.; I joined to all of them. In this stage, what I really care were sports, theater, pool, studies and fiends.
While years were passing, I started to change a lot not only physically, but also mentally. That was when I noticed that I became an adolescent. “Compared to children, adolescents are more likely to question others’ assertions, and less likely to accept facts as absolute truths. Through experience outside the family circle, they learn that rules they were taught as absolute are in fact relativistic” (Vine R.). As a matter of fact, I have experienced what is mentioned before many times; actually, I still doing that until know. At this stage, I continue doing the activities I did; also I enrolled into new ones, as ICPNA, which i am going to finish this month. However, now I have other interests: friends, maybe boys, social meetings, and especially, university. As soon as I realized I am in 5th grade, I started to feel a little sad and excited. I do not know what I am going to study and how the university is going to be. I admit that the idea scares me, but I hope I will surpass it. Ultimately, I have understood that my family was really important and how much I love them. Although I have some troubles, I am really enjoying this stage because I think it is the best.
Well, the only thing I can say is that I am very thankful with God, my family and my friends because they made my life better. In all my life, I have learned many things, I experienced happiness, hope, disappointment, pain, anger, etc. Now I know that everything has a reason. I just hope to continue living putting in practice all what I have learned and beling the person I am: a happy, honest and persistent girl.
1) 1)Viner R., Christie. “Adolescent development”. February 2005.
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