Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Catching Up by Terrell Watkins

In the 9th grade, I played football. When I got home from practice, I never did any homework. I would just go home, take a shower, eat, and go to sleep. Since I did that everyday, when I got in class I didn’t know what to do. I would just sleep in class everyday. When the first semester was over, I had failed every class. I felt bad about what I had done that last semester so I had to catch up that next semester. I had to take all four classes, plus zero and fifth period to catch up. My reaction was like, “Dang, I just messed my whole high school life up cause I got to do a lot of catching up in these next couple of years.” I changed around because of the football coach. Coach Wilkins said, “Son, what’s going with your classes? You have to make a change.” So I did.

I learned from this experience by having to catch up on my education for like two years. I failed those four classes that semester but it wasn’t fun doing that because I wasn’t able to go and party like I wanted to. My experience wasn’t fun because it was a waste of time going back and starting a class over for another semester.

Freshman can learn by this by just doing their work and not playing in class. They can learn from my experience by just paying attention to their teachers and not their friends. Also, if they play a sport, they should do their homework after practice. Also, they should just be nice to their teachers because it will help out during the end of the semester.

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