Is There Anything That You Have Accomplished That You Are Really Proud Of?

There is a lot of things in my life that I am proud of, but one thing in my life that stands out is finishing high school. I thought I would never finish school, because of my Cerebral Palsy. I went to a special school for my Cerebral Palsy, but I also got to a regular school which I graduated with the class of 1980. The regular school I went to I was taking classing in sewing, typing homemake and other things. I didn't graduated

I won award for my sewing at the school. When I graduated it was the high light of my life. I cried, because I had worked hard to get there. I had miss a lot of school being in and out of the hospital. My mother and my grandmother, and sister came to my graduating. There were a lot of kids were graduating. I was the only on the had Cerebral Palsy graduating that day.

There was another thing that I have Accomplished in my life: Was going to a place call United Cerebral Palsy, so they could teach how to live on my own. I went threw a program for a year and half. The program showed me how to cook, shop, clean, fining job and riding a bus. I graduated about two years.I sat in a lot of groups and I cooked and I went on bus trips.

There was another thing that I Accomplished in my life: Taking some writing classes, and I have written two short stories for my school newspaper. I have got some awards in finishing the writing classes. The writing classes I took at home, for about a year. I hope to take some classes in Romance Writing,but all they had was short story writing. I hopping to go to school for writing someday. I also help put our cookbook at our school together and I also have recipes inside the book.

There was another thing that Accomplished in my life that I am proud of: Is living in my own apartment be myself. People thought I couldn't go it because of my Cerebral Palsy. I cooked a clean and went shopping for my own food and brought my own clothes and washed my own clothes, and did all my banking. I lived in a high rise building for about three years.

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