I’m going to go ahead and give you all a bit of my background when it comes to my history in school. I was always an “alright” student during my Elementary days of school. I would get pretty decent grades that my parents always seemed proud about. All this changed when I entered into Middle School. I started to become a trouble child through all my Middle School years. I was always getting into trouble during school. Not only was I getting into trouble, my school grades started to diminish. I started to not care about grades anymore. I went to summer school at the end of 7^th and 8^th grade just so I can go off into High School. Finally, High School rolled around. What an adventure this was for my couple years I was there. I can’t recall really passing any classes besides music and mathematics. In some ways, music and math tie in together. I guess this is what made me pass math because I’m such in love with music. I did summer school from my 10^th grade to get into the 11^th grade. (Sophomore – Junior) When I was Junior in High School (11^th grade) I started to realize that I was going to have to pass everything and even do some year or two of summer school just to graduate. I didn’t think that I would be willing to devote everything I had to just school work. I seem to be the lazy type. I thought long and hard about dropping out of High School and always told myself I would never do it. Well, after thinking long and hard, I ended up dropping out of school on December 23^rd 2008 of my Junior year in High School.

I dropped out with a huge task on my mind. That task was to take the GED and pass it. I didn’t want to just dive right into it because I was nervous of failing. I ended up studying like crazy for it. All this studying lasted about two months. I planned on taking it after two months, but I never got around to signing up for the test. Then, time and time went by and I ended up stopping the studying habits that I had and forgot about the test. Eventually, a job opportunity opened up for me, but, I needed my GED. I ended up signing up for the test after about 10 months of being out of school and 8 months of no study. I forgot just about everything I have known in school and pretty much went into the test cold blooded. I was nervous to learn what my outcome of the test was going to be, but now, I am proud to say, that the result of the test was a PASS. I had received my GED. I’m hoping and praying that this will lead me to great expectations in my future life. Please continue to pray for me as times are going to be getting hard for me!