If you ask a kid, or even a teen this question, most will shrug their shoulders and say " I don't know." But, I believe I know what I want to do. If you would have talked to me around Christmas time, you would've found out that I could've cared less about school. Since then, I've made a complete 180. I love going to school, I like all my classes. Well, all except Spanish, but that's for another blog post, and not this one. I'm close to a straight A student, just that dreaded Spanish class, but I'm working on it. Along with this miraculous turn around, has come a new interest. Before I tell you about this new interest, I'd better tell you about the old one. Since I was a bout 11 years old, I've always looked up, and wondered where it all came from, and why we were here. How did we come to be, and how did it all start. Just a few weeks ago, I went to the library, and picked up on the Stephen Hawking's books, "A Brief History of Time." In this book, he talks about many things, which all boggle my mind, and confuse me more than anything else does. But then I realized that this was for me; that I needed to do this. It was like an irresistible urge to keep going at this, even though I hardly know anything about this. Now I will tell you the new interest: Physics. Now I'm sure all of the older people that have already been through high school(and maybe college) remember their physics class, and they want to pull their teeth out. I don't want physics to be my main focus, but astrophysics.
Just last week, I went to the book store, and picked up a book that will some what teach me physics. It's alright, but that's not for this post either. With getting that book, I realized that this really was for me, and that if I just put my mind to it, I could do it. So, on Friday, I went to talk to my physics teacher, and asked him if he had any extra time to just show me the basics, and teach them to me. He said no, but he did give me a physics textbook, and told me to read it, and that he was fascinated by my passion. This made me want to do this even more. All my life, people have told me that I would amount to nothing, and to hear that he was fascinated by me, and my passion, made me want to prove so many people wrong. So far, I have.
As I said before, I have all A's, except for my Spanish class. When I was talking to me English teacher last week, I brought up the idea about me going into honors next year. To my surprise, she agreed with me, and said that she thought that it would be the best thing for me. Again, that made me want to prove them all wrong. Along with that, I'm fortunate enough to be taking a course at the community college in my area. I don't know what I'm going to take yet, but I know it's either going to be Astronomy, or just some math class.
I have total faith in myself know, and I know I can do this.
