My Achievement

My mom and my dad influence me. They are very important to my life, because they both work very hard to make our life happy. Especially my dad, he always works, even though he does not have to work. Sometimes I just want to pay back some of the things that my parents had helped and gave me something that was very important to me, life. The only thing that they really want from me is for me to follow my dreams to become a successful person and happy. My dreams are, to get good grades, finish high school, go to college, get a good job, and might or might not marry, but the most important thing is going to college.
My ability to stay focus on something that I want to accomplish. For example: My grades at school and learning. I came from Thailand to the USA and went straight into High School. I did not get discouraged and I kept focus on what I want to do and that was to get good grades in school. I did not let things interfere in, I achieving my goals.
The issue that matter to me the most was back when I was in seventh grade. I was still going to school there. I felt like I was failing and giving up on my life. I stressed out, because of the finals at school and my dad’s job. In my mind, I knew that I would pass all of the classes, because I always did. But I was so depress and nervous, and that made me lost my confidence in myself. When I depressed, I drank about four bottles of pop everyday. One day, I passed out in band, while everybody was marching. When I opened my eyes, I was in the nurse’s office, lying on the bed. The nurse told me that I was very sick, because I drank too much pop and stress, and with my hyperness, the pop actually made me tired and crashed. She told me that if I continue drinking more pop, I would have a hold in my stomach, and it would cause more problems. I was frightening with all of the pop thing and the final thing.
When I went home, I told my mom that I’m giving up with my life. I told her that I wanted to drop out of school. Because school in Thailand, you have to pay a huge amount of money and especially my school, it was a catholic school. My dad worked on Mondays to Fridays, but sometimes Saturday. He left at six in the morning for work and came back at eleven at night. Sometimes I did not see him for weeks, but I understand that he had been busy lately. My mom was very good of talking with people when they are giving up and depress. She gave me some of advises that would help me get through the stress. She bought mea stress relieve, it was a very soft ball that when you are stress out, you could squeeze it, and it did help me.
Then I realized that there were so many solutions to get out of the depressed situation, because my family was there for me.
I want to attend to University of California San Diego, because I want to be a Marine Biologist. The University is very close to the ocean, which it would be the best place to study marine’s life. The weather is the other thing that I like about it, because you don’t have to worry about snow or cold, California is perfect for me. It’s very close to my brother’s house and I could visit and hang out with him any time I want. It’s a big school but it has a lot of majors and the study environment is perfect.