Shreya K

I have discovered that one thing I can count on in this life is my family, because they will always be there for me.

My first memory of school is in kindergarten, when I was digging through the prize box, a giant purple storage container filled to the brim with toys and prizes of every shape and size. You would choose an item from the prize box if you guessed the exact or closest number of items in a clear glass jar.

In elementary school, the teachers that had the most influence on me were the teachers who I could joke around with and always had an open door for me and my friends to come hang out. I always felt like I could come and talk to these teachers whenever I needed anything. I always remember visiting my third grade teacher during fourth, fifth and even sixth grade and helping her with the science labs.

My friends were the kids who had easy going personalities and were nice to everyone, but always worked hard during school. One of my memories with them are when we had a free day close to the end of the year, where we could do anything that we wanted for the whole day, and there were different craft project stations that you could work at. My friends and I made dream catchers, jewelry, a pasta collage, tissue paper flowers, and even a corn husk doll.

Thankfully, I was never bullied in elementary school, and the school itself was good at handling bullying because of numerous yard duties, antibullying programs, and a box where you can submit your disagreements anonymously and have them solved.

My family inclused my loving and caring mother, always smiling father, and my energetic younger sister. Some words of wisdom from my parents are " Act with awareness and respect your elders". This is important because it tells me that I have to think before I act to make sure that I am not doing something that will hurt me in the future.

I as a person am someone who is confident, outgoing, and enthusiastic about everything. I have learned that in life I sometimes over think things that seem simple and try to make them the best I can but end up complicating them.

If there was something that I could change about my personality, I would try and be less sarcastic because sometimes it hurts people's feelings even when I didn't mean to make them feel bad.