If i were to explain my obvious identity i would say, My name is Abraham Benavides I am a 16 year old latino that goes to school at Rancho Buena Vista High School. There is more to just stating your obvious identity. What makes me ,me is that i am a person that is always going to be there for you when you are in need of something big or small. I am not able to concentrate sometimes due to the imagination running wild and free, but it’s all part of being me. My Ethnicity is hispanic and that is one part of my identity that completes me, That's because i have learned so much about where i am from, it's started to become a part of me. My dad was one that taught me and helped shape the person i am today. He would help me learn how to work for my things. This is crucial because he tought me how to be self reliant and not depend on others to help me. He also taught me that school is important because without it i am stuck at a minimum wage job, this was all out of his experience because he wasn't able to have an education because he had to work to provide for his mom in mexico. Then in the type of community that i grew with got me used to give a lot because the neighborhood i live in we are very close and we give and share a lot with each other. Having the benifit of being born in the United states helped me alot with my education and the way that i think of it. I am very fortunate to have free education, because in the future it is going to be good.
Over time i have shown many talents in life that i may not have even known that i had. There is one in particular that i have that is something not everyone can do. This is the talent of being able to play an instrument, which is the drums. I first started to play when i was at the age of 8, i was really curious and saw my cousin play at the church choir. One day my mom asked him if he would take the time and teach me every monday for two months straight. From there i was able to learn more with the help of God and soon was able to get my own setup at home. It was a full set up electronic drum set which means that it included everything needed to play, i was able to set it up on my own. This helped me want to play more now that i didn't have to go somewhere just to play. I have recently not been able to play much due to the fact that i am busy with other things but soon i will be able to play again on a regular bases once i am out of school. I feel that anyone can play it but not everyone enjoys it but that's the thing with me i love to play the drums
In life you will have to encounter many barriers in life whether it is in school, at home, or even anywhere. These barriers always have a way around them some how but it is your task to figure out how. Throughout my 12 years in school i have faced many educational barriers some i have been able to overcome and there are some that maybe i have not. It’s hard to find a solution and that solution is the thing that can save your class grade. There has been one recently that has been an opportunity that has the potential to save my grade in a class. We students are very fortunate to have these great opportunities in school because they can really impact your grade positively. For example in astronomy our teacher told us if we would go to palomar college to see an event he would give us extra credit. This is very important to me because if i don’t do this extra credit i face the possibility that i will lose my current grade and even fail. This is a good example of a significant educational opportunity to get over an educational barrier.
I believe that life is full of difficult experiences and we all some how have to deal with them , so yes i have had some difficult experiences in life.There are many ways people have said that work to deal with problems but i have my own. The way that i get through a difficult experience is by looking past it and how the problem is just going to go away and that things are just going to get better. I realized that the key to getting through it was to not pay much attention to it and it will get better. Although that may not always work but it's good to consider it while going through something because it will benefit you. I used to stress about problems all the time and it would get really bad because my mind was stuck on just one thing but then i realized that there was a way around it. I started changing how i felt about facing problems. I use to stress about school and myprojects how it was to much. Then i realized that the task was simple and that there is really no reason to worry about something that is so easily done. My stress went down rapidly because some small problems used to get to me but not any more. This is my experience with a difficult problem.
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