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Autobiography
My ninth grade year was one of great trials for me, and one of inspiration. Right
before school had started I had made a huge mistake, but I didn’t think too many people
would find out. After a couple of weeks of school, I realized that mistake I had made
became the popular gossip among all my classmates. Although I was humiliated, it was
the best year of my life. I met a girl named Lauren Spencer, and she was there for me
through thick and then. She didn’t just become my best friend she became my sister. She
was a wonderful Christian, and made me want to turn my life around. On January 18,
2005 I was saved. This changed my whole out look on life, and I knew then that my life
was going to be guided by Christ, not by me. I began praying to God asking what he
wanted me to do with my life. He answered by giving me a wonderful teacher. That year
I had the best Algebra I teacher any student could have, Mrs. Leblanc. We all called her
Mrs. “L”. When she would teacher she would cover everything in every way possible.
There was no such thing as a stupid question to her, and if you needed her to stay after
school to help you she would do it in a heart beat. She had a great outlook on life. She
was a breast cancer survivor, which to me made me think even more highly of her.
Someone who had been through so much, but yet kept her head up doing what she loves
to do while keeping a happy positive attitude. At that moment in time going through what
I was going through I could relate to it. She inspired me to be a teacher not just because I
love math but because of her pure joy from seeing us learn.
I am a pretty diverse person in a sense that people always seem to have an
assumption about me, and then once they meet me they realize how far off they really
were. I was born at the Lake Charles Memorial Hospital on November 22, 1989, but I
have lived in Sulphur all my life. My dad grew up around the area in Lake Charles, but
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