My Mama by Venycia Strong

My first year in high school was not bad. I was kind of nervous, but once I got out of the car and saw my friends I was ok. The first year in high school was the first time I made a “C” for a final grade in any class. I was ok with it, but my mama wasn’t. Once my mama saw my grades, she told me that I could do better. She said that once I started to apply to colleges they were not only going to look at my SAT scores or my grades from just 12th grade; they were going to look at all 4 years. Throughout the next semester, my mama stayed hard on me making sure I did all of my homework and didn’t sleep in class, which I always did before. She even called the teachers and told them to e-mail her all my grades. By the end of that semester, I had all my grades up. Until I moved here last year, my mama still had my teachers e-mail my grades to her. She is a great influence on my success throughout high school and probably life.

That experience taught me a valuable lesson. It taught me to do well in school and that my mama is a strong-willed person. It also taught me to work hard and do my best in school because what I do in school determines what I do in the future. By me not paying attention and sleeping in class, I earned a “C.” Now I had to make up for that in the rest of my grades, and I’m proud to say that I never made another “C” for a final grade throughout my time in high school.

You freshman can learn that just because you are in high school now, you can’t just slack off in your grades, because it will follow you throughout your high school career. If you have a mama like mine, it’s best that you don’t slack off because she will be all over you until you get those grades up. I hope that you guys can learn from my experience and not slack off and pay attention. I can’t stress to you enough how important it is that you keep your grades up and try to strive for the best for yourself. I hope you take what I have said in this letter into consideration for yourself. Follow my steps if you want, but I encourage you to make your own steps and make your own memories for yourself not based on what I have done. Peace.