Who Am I

As a child and in your teen years, there is lots of pressure to decide on what you want to do for the rest of your life and your career path. I had no idea what I wanted to become out of high school, I took a year off to find myself and what I wanted to do as a career path. Then I realized in my year of just working how all my life I have been helping and teaching people when they are in need; like about technology, in sports, outdoors with family, and just lots of random things from just working at a co-op gas station. At this moment I figured out what I would want to try and pursue. Becoming a teacher!
Early in my childhood, I was always in some type of sports. Doing something whether that’s camping with my family or playing baseball, turned into playing lacrosse which I still play to this day. Me playing lacrosse for so long made me able to teach people about the sport. Like I help in camps whenever I can to teach the younger kids how to get better at the sport. I even ref Lacrosse to get to know the rules that your average player wouldn’t know about. Lacrosse has been a super big part of my life with helping me learn how to talk to random people. But the sport that had the biggest impact on my life would be a sport I would randomly start playing because of my broken arm. I broke my arm twice in lacrosse in one season and had to get surgery the second break. Everything is perfect now but since I broke It, I couldn’t play hockey which I played all my life till grade 8. Then I quit hockey for basketball. Which would turn out to be the best decision of my life. The four years I played high school basketball for knoll was the most fun I have had in any sporting experience. Little did I know I would grow to look at these boys as my second family. We spent so much time together and grow through all the heartfelt losses like losing in two championship games to Leboldus. But also, had Really great memories of winning lots of tournaments and big games we were not supposed to do. We put Winston knoll on the map for our basketball program. We never had lots of all-star talent except a guy named Nathan Hamilton who plays u of r now, but other than him we were a hard-working group of guys that looked at each other as brothers and as a family.

On the topic of family, my mom and dad always believed in me from a young age my biggest supporters. Always supported me in everything from sports to school. My mom and dad would always be proud of the little things like being honor roll in high school. Just anything along those lines. Because of my learning disability. But my mom has always been a really big inspiration as she is my role model, she works so hard and does everything she can do for me and my two brothers. I am the middle child, and it made me a peacemaker and very independent. Which made me always didn’t rely on anyone really other than my parents. I would always try to do things myself and teach myself how to do the thing and complete tasks. But also, being a middle child, I have always been a leader to my younger brother which helped me translate to being a leader in sports.
When I look back, and what weight in on what I wanted to become. And why I am going with becoming a teacher is because of my grade 6 teacher. Which funny was a substitute because my real teacher had her baby, so she missed the whole year? But why this teacher has had such a big impact on me is because I have a learning disability. And I wouldn’t try in school and teachers would just allow me to not do anything. But this teacher put her foot down and was the first teacher to go get me the right tools and motivated me to actually care about school and beat don’t listen to how all my testers tell me I wouldn’t read past a grade 5 level or be able to spell and write. To this day I have gotten so much better I can read and write at a much higher level, I still have some problems with me being dyslexic and messing up my b’s and d’s and stuff. But the whole point I am trying to make is that no one really believed in me everyone was just pushing me through the system. I want to become one of those teachers they remember because they change their life for the good. And helped when they needed it most.