students that are placed in the class of newcomers‚ as in having been in the school for 2 months or less. Oh my! These students have never participated in a standardized test‚ so it was not only their first experience on a multi-hour test‚ but also at the same time it was my first experience testing brand new students in the school. Challenges went from bubbling all the answers the first couple of questions‚ to frustration because they thought they needed to fill out all the open-ended answer documents
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living my first experience in the United States; however‚ is not my first experience in a new country. I have already passed trough all the feelings of meeting new people‚ miss home‚ and adapt myself to my new culture; but‚ there is one thing that I have clear‚ being afraid of something that I do not now is like crying for something that still not happened; nobody is going to hit as hard as life‚ after all‚ is not about how hard I hit‚ is about how hard I can get hit and keep moving forward. My story
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What was your first experience in high school ? What thoughts were running through your head at the time? My head felt like it was going to pop off my body. Foremost‚ I grew up with parents who moved from the Dominican Republic and never had a college education. The time and dedication they take to do their jobs is incredible. There are times where I don’t get to see my father for weeks being he’s too focused on his job. On one occasion my father had to work for almost 48 hours straight due to a
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We were down 5-2‚ first game of the season. There were 30 minutes left and Ethan was taking a corner kick against Reed City. I listened as our coach shouted to crash the net and Ethan howled to get open. I glanced around in an attempt to be aware of my surroundings‚ then I focused my attention back on Ethan. He stepped back‚ raised his hand‚ and let loose on the ball. The ball soared through the sky‚ heading straight for me‚ and that’s when it happened. As we entered the gates to the field ‚ I glanced
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Staying with her and her family was one of the greatest experiences in my life. Besides learning a new language‚ I made new friends and I really got into the culture of a great and beautiful country. When I arrived there‚ I got very excited. First‚ I was excited because it was my first time in a foreign country‚ and second because I was going to live something really new in my life. On the other hand‚ learning English wasn’t an easy process because my aunt used to speak just Portuguese with me; I used
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My First Cruise Have you ever wanted to travel the world? What made you want to travel? I went on a cruise in June of 2011. I’d say it was the best time of my life. I got to swim in the ocean‚ Meat people from other cultures‚ and discovered parts of the world I’ve never seen. The name of the cruise ship was Destiny. Maybe it’s my destiny to travel the world. It all started one early morning in June. I was awake and was so anxious I hadn’t slept all night. I was ready for my first out of
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What was your first job like? When I was sixteen years old I thought my first job was going to be at Mc Donald’s or some type of fast food restaurant. My mother wasn’t really the type that forced me to work at a younger age. Usually a lot of teenagers don’t work until seventeen or eighteen years old. Some times when I was a child I always wanted to be more responsible by doing things on my own‚ working‚ and driving‚ but at sixteen what can I be responsible at. As a young teenager I always looked
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for myself over the course of my life. Most of these goals I have set for myself‚ I have achieved with hard work and dedication. One of my many goals I had set for myself before coming into the military was to further my education. I probably would have never made it through the first semester of college‚ lacking the proper discipline and being immature I decided to join the United States Air Force. I thought it was a good idea to get the Air Force to pay for my education and I would be able
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Comp I was my first experience working at a college level. Throughout the course‚ I learned to take personal responsibility and to write at a higher level than required of me previously. With the new experience of working through an online course came several positive and negative events that I learned to overcome. I then used those events to my benefit as a student and a writer. Overall‚ Comp I had several advantages and disadvantages as well as difficulties that I had to navigate that have prepared
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In my opinion‚ the message I feel like this article is trying to convey is how practicum experience can help improves one’s career commitment‚ self-efficacy‚ and job attainment confidence. I also feel like the authors are trying to get readers to understand how important practicum is throughout the world. To better understand the impact of a practicum the authors focused on students who had practicum experience and those who did not have practicum experience. What I learned from the article is that
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