Graduation Speech High School - 1172 Words

I have been going to school since I was four years old and, that means that I have been attending school twenty to twenty two years, including kindergarten, middle school, high school and now college. As every student, I had my ups and downs in school; I had some failures and some successes. One of the failures that affected me the most and that I will always remember was the time that I was in high school during my junior year. I failed almost all my classes and, I only passed two classes and with a C. In the other hand I had some really good success. The most recent one and the one that I am still happy about is getting my Family Development Credential. We learn from our mistakes and also from our successes, these two times in my life†¦show more content†¦All of this happened because I skipped school, I had to confront my consequences and deal with them because that was something that I chose to do and nobody forced me, so I had to fix it. My senior I was really strict wit h myself and I did the best I could so I would graduate. Finally, I did graduate but I felt that my junior year was just a waste of my time. One of my last successes in my education was obtaining my Family Development Credential; it required a lot of work and a lot of training hours. This credential was required by my job and they were paying for it, so I had to do it. It was a lot of work, because it was for a whole year that I had to go to a training once a week for whole day, also I had to do a portfolio based on the activities on each chapter, this also was a lot of work because it was really hard for me to keep up with all of the chapters. I was working full time, taking college classes and in top of that I was taking this credential training. It was really hard but I was able to manage my time and organize my schedule and I was able to do the entire required job and all the required training hours. After I got my certificate, I received a pay raise at my job for obtaining this certificate. It felt rewarding to receive extra money for this credential. All those sacrifices during that year were all worth It at the end . Successes and fails have obstacles