I had a hard time adjusting to a new environment, so I became extremely shy when before I was more at outgoing. I felt invisible. One of my friends who was also in the Esol program also got placed in the regular classroom. We had different classes but shared the same lunch period. So I didn’t feel so alone.
Obesity is having too much body fat. It is not the same as being overweight, which means weighing too much. A person may be overweight from extra muscle, bone, or water, as well as from having too much fat. Obesity has not been a problem that just occurred, obesity has been here forever but not only in adults but in children and adolescents as well. A third of children more than 7,000 children who were overweight in kindergarten were obese by eighth grade.
It’s not like my family is filled with a whole bunch of illiterate people. Trust me my family is filled with very smart people. The sad part is they weren’t given the chances to complete high school. For example my mother had an untimely pregnancy which limited her ability to attend school regularly which eventually led to her having to drop out. These stories continue throughout my family and the list goes on.
Liz Gomez English 101 Mr. Tafarella 3/9/11 On Monday of last week I woke up with the biggest headache ever and believe me I was not ready to go to class but I really didn’t want to miss the video that Mr. Tafarella was going to show us, so I got up, got ready and decided I had nothing to lose and I went to class. Once at school we had a lot of trouble trying to get the video to work and finally there it was; the most interesting subject I could have ever come across “Jonestown” To tell you the truth at first I was a little bit confused because I had never heard of this story, but once the documentary got going I was not able to take my eyes off of it. After the documentary ended I realized I wanted to know even more. I mean, I couldn’t
Being overweight all my life has definitely been a struggle. I wouldn’t say that it’s always had a negative impact on my life but it has taken me thru a lot of ups and downs. As a kid I was never picked on for being overweight, like most overweight kids often go thru. I can remember a couple incidents of being picked last when it came to any physical activity games. Getting older I went thru a phase where I always wanted to cover up (jacket, big clothes ect), but after that phase I became comfortable in my own skin.
Younger Americans these days are very much involved in the communities. I have noticed that some of my underprivileged peers are not as involved as much as I am. The gap that Putnam and Sander talk about between upper middle class and the lower middle class’ involvement grows wider each year. The latter of the two finds no interest in becoming involved within the community. Being born in 1995, I would be classified as the end of the 9/11 generation; I was too young at the time to remember what had happened that day yet like the kids that are the older ones in the generation I and many others my age are socially engaged.
Then I began my journey into learning. Math, science, and language always took place in the morning periods, which I think was good idea since the brain functions better at the beginning of the day. Each class was forty-five minutes long interrupted by a ten minutes activity because as a little kid after twenty minutes of lecture the brain needs a break. I also had a ten minutes break to prepare for the next class. Around eleven, we usually took twenty-five minutes lunch break and if you are lucky enough and you live very close to the school you can go home and get your lunch.
There is just one long lunch period compared to the two short breaks you have in middle school. This may take time to get used to, but its better since you have time for everything in one whole period. You can even go out somewhere far during lunch and be back to school on time. In middle school, we were not allowed to leave school premises during recess; however in high school, we can go wherever we want to during lunch. You get more freedom in high school compared to middle school.
Big girl in a skinny world All my life people have commented on the way my body looks. Being curvy has always been considered as being overweight, even though, for most of my life, I have maintained a healthy weight. Throughout school, I was called fat and ugly by some kids, but the way my parents raised me, has given me self-confidence, so I did not care what those children said. When I spent a year abroad in the States in 2004, I gained 20 kilos, but there, nobody turned up their nose at me, and being in my first serious relationship gave me a huge boost of confidence as well. It seemed like I had finally broken the cycle of being the big girl out.
I just arrived at America, everything was new for me. My daily routine comprised of going to school, coming home, resting for a while, waking up, hanging out with friends, coming back home, sleeping, and then repeating the same thing the next day. I didn't care about my homework or even classwork for that matter. In the meantime, the first semester I studied at ELAC, I got 4.0 GPA. Because it was so easy for me to get all A in first semester; gradually, I began wasting time.