Personal Narrative: Tutoring In Elementary School

During my elementary years, I was always shy to talk to other people I didn’t consider as friends. The only ones I talked to was my classmates, teachers, and friends. I was the type of child that would depend on others. When I was 10, I was worried on how others would think of me. I was close minded and I would always assume that people would tease me for the little things that I did. This made me antisocial and I didn’t want to get involved into anything. At the age of 10, I was placed into an afterschool tutoring program. I was struggling with my reading and math so my parents placed me in there to improve on my weakest subjects in school. The class was being set up so students who applied for the program had to wait outside of class in the hallway of Waipahu Elementary School. I assumed that all the students waiting out in the hallway were signed up into the tutoring program. I looked around to see if I had any friends that I could stay with but I knew no one there. Though a few other students caught my attention when I was looking for my friends. There were a few boys surrounding a girl. This girl looked new to the school. She was dressed like a tom boy but her hair was long and in a braid. I assumed she told these boys a joke because
I was afraid though because I thought that if I get in their business they’ll try to attack me next. Since I was a child that always depended on things, I knew I had to stand up for myself. I thought about what I could tell the boys and I came up with a back up plan because I knew that I could possibly fail. After thinking my plans out through I walked up to the boys and tried to confront them that what they did was wrong. All they did was mimic me and laugh at me for trying to stand up for a new friend of mine. I told them that I would tell Miss Maggie, who happened to be one of the leaders for the tutoring program and my