Dear Mrs.

Hillaby

In the beginning of the year I saw myself as a good student but very quickly I began to
see myself as a person who needs to get his priorities straight. I saw my 100% in math slowly
drop as my abstinents grew. It became even more surreal when my mom started to read the
teacher's notes on my report card they all read the same Hes a good student but his
attendance is holding him back. This drove me to try to attend class every single day and when
i start driving next year it will be all on me to get to school and i hope my attendance will
improve.

As a write in the beginning of the year I thought that I was not the best writer but I quickly
improved. Im very proud of how easy it is for me to write an essay or any multiple paragraph
paper. In grade 7 when we first started writing essays it was very difficult to write more than two
or three sentences, but now its the exact opposite its difficult writing so little i just want to keep
writing but I have to start to stop myself and merge those ideas into others or sacrifice detail for
simplicity.

But sometime in March something happened to my father which caused him to be

hospitalized and my mother rushing to his aid made it difficult to help everyone in my home,
myself and keep up in school. But I realized when you are put into a situation that you cannot
change the only way to get through it is to just keep pushing through.