The reason I wanted to include this short story is because it is very well describing of me. It represents friendship to me and how I am able to practice it in my everyday life. This document in mi POL introduction. This is because they asked me what word, other than student, can describe me well. Here it is hope you enjoy!
Goodmorning, thank you for coming to my POL. A label that describes me as something other than a student is friend. I have been taught all my life many valuable lessons. I have learned history, math and science. But the best thing I have ever learned, is how to be a good friend.
As you all know, we all have that one special person that has taught you everything, has been there for you, and you will never forget. Well, that person to me was and always will be my grandmother. Since I can remember, I have always loved my grandmother, she was outstanding.
Throughout the many years I spent with her, I learned that she was one of my best friends as well as I learned how to be one. As she was charismatic, dependable, trustworthy, forgiving, supporting, genuine, and loving I learned to be the same way.
When people came to me on the first day of school, I was scared. Then I thought about my grandmother, and gave my classmates a warm welcoming smile (this has been my way of making friends ever since.) In preschool, I would always go to school with a small suitcase full of princesses plastic slippers which I couldn't wait to share with my friends so we could all be beautiful princesses. In kinder, helping them when they fell (always being the one to run and tell the teacher), never letting a friend go alone to the bathroom (because well its a rule.)
As you know, in elementary school you start worrying about different things. Boys are one of the main things that start happening, how things are just harder. When one of my friends was sad, I would talk to my grandmother asking her what I could do, she would always tell me to try discuss what was bothering my friend. I understood how a friend is someone who can listen to you without judging even if you are unhappy about the smallest thing. I saw how by supporting my friends even in the weirdest ways could make a huge difference.
Then comes high school. Here things are complicated, you start by having a big fight with a friend, how you stop speaking to her for days. I realized that what makes a friendship stronger is forgiveness, knowing neither your friend or you are perfect.
As our friendship grew, we could talk about anything with each other. Confess things to each other that not even our parents know. Making fun of each other but always knowing that even though we have a blood family, this is the family we were able to choose.
Goodmorning, thank you for coming to my POL. A label that describes me as something other than a student is friend. I have been taught all my life many valuable lessons. I have learned history, math and science. But the best thing I have ever learned, is how to be a good friend.
As you all know, we all have that one special person that has taught you everything, has been there for you, and you will never forget. Well, that person to me was and always will be my grandmother. Since I can remember, I have always loved my grandmother, she was outstanding.
Throughout the many years I spent with her, I learned that she was one of my best friends as well as I learned how to be one. As she was charismatic, dependable, trustworthy, forgiving, supporting, genuine, and loving I learned to be the same way.
When people came to me on the first day of school, I was scared. Then I thought about my grandmother, and gave my classmates a warm welcoming smile (this has been my way of making friends ever since.) In preschool, I would always go to school with a small suitcase full of princesses plastic slippers which I couldn't wait to share with my friends so we could all be beautiful princesses. In kinder, helping them when they fell (always being the one to run and tell the teacher), never letting a friend go alone to the bathroom (because well its a rule.)
As you know, in elementary school you start worrying about different things. Boys are one of the main things that start happening, how things are just harder. When one of my friends was sad, I would talk to my grandmother asking her what I could do, she would always tell me to try discuss what was bothering my friend. I understood how a friend is someone who can listen to you without judging even if you are unhappy about the smallest thing. I saw how by supporting my friends even in the weirdest ways could make a huge difference.
Then comes high school. Here things are complicated, you start by having a big fight with a friend, how you stop speaking to her for days. I realized that what makes a friendship stronger is forgiveness, knowing neither your friend or you are perfect.
As our friendship grew, we could talk about anything with each other. Confess things to each other that not even our parents know. Making fun of each other but always knowing that even though we have a blood family, this is the family we were able to choose.