Dear Readers

Dear readers,

I have had some life experiences that I think are qualifying enough for me to be able to say that I have truly enjoyed being able to attend school and trying to further my education and making my life better. I would say that to be in a situation like my own takes a long road of trials and tribulations, the key to remaining sane is to be as optimistic as you can. I have found that being optimistic has allot of good qualities but there are a few draw backs as well. So to be in this situation that I keep finding my self in is always a little awkward, even though it is sometimes a hard road traveled I keep my head up and my eyes forward. To establish a good standing in my life has taken allot of hard work.

When I started going to this school it was to attend the adult high school completion program and take a couple of criminal justice programs. I stared off doing all of that because I had dropped out of high school because I had received a job offer to make 22.50 an hour. So being the naïve teen that I was I jumped at it, Not knowing what I know now I should have never taken that job I should have stayed in school and graduated with the rest of my class. I had to work twice as hard being a full time student and a full time employee of a cabinet shop. I had to pay for my own tuition and I had to pay for my own books. It was the hardest thing that I had done in my life till that point and time. The reason for all this work was so I could advance my life by joining the army. I decided to join the army so I could get myself out of the slump that I had gotten my self into living in the town that I was born in.

The army was the best thing I could have ever done for myself. I was a Cavalry Scout, my job was to be the eyes and ears on the battlefield for the commanders. I enjoyed almost every minute of being in the army, besides all the B.S. that you go through just to get a simple task done is one of the main reasons why I got out. If it wasn’t for all the semantics and the politics that has to happen I would have seriously considered reenlisting for another term. But I didn’t I couldn’t handle it anymore I had enough so I got out. While I was in though I made great friends and I had traveled to a third world country that is currently at war. I was given the opportunity to serve my country by being in Iraq for a fun, long and arduous 16 months.

I got out and decided to come back to school to further my education in the Criminal Justice program by taking classes in what ever I could. During my second quarter I decided to take philosophy 101 and English 97. By being in English 97 I learned that I was making a substantial amount of grammatical errors. Not including I was having a problem with fragments and comma splices, even though I was making these mistakes with nouns and verbs. To kind of put it simply I was having total trouble with my sentence structure. Being in this class has been a great tool that I was needing to continue my college degree in what ever that may be. Knowing that I wasn’t going to be able to exceed in what ever degree I choose with taking English 97 was going to be impossible because my writing was just not up to par. While in English I learned the proper procedure for a couple different writing techniques. Being able to write a descriptive narrative, a narrative, and a couple journals along with some blogs about a book that was the book of the quarter.

I am deciding to show you in a chronologic order of my writing, to show you how I improved from sloppy writing to able to have proper structure. I am trying to prove that my writing skills have improved though out the quarter.