Overcoming Obstacles Analysis

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Obstacles are an everyday situation occurred in life. For example, one obstacle that happened to me was in high school around my junior year it just happened that by that time I was taking us history class ,and well that meant for you to pay attention if not when the day of sate test came you weren’t going to pass. So the problem was that when I was taking that class the people wouldn’t be quite, and wouldn’t let you listen to the teacher lesson, so the teacher would start talking, and they will all started talking. So what happened was that when they day of the exam came around I simply, didn’t know what to do simply because of the fact that the people wouldn’t be quite, and they wouldn’t let you pat attention. So after the test a week later passed, and everybody was …show more content…
So he decided to call the students one by one but of course he was basing himself on the roster that he had. Indeed my turned came, and he told me that sadly I didn’t pass, and that he was sad because, he knew that I was a good student that he doesn’t know what happened to me. So yes the next semester came around, and it’s like this if you don’t pass it they right away give you a retaining class which that pretty much means that you didn’t pass the test, and in the other hand you’re going to waste another half semester in a retaining class instead of you taking another, class that it could be really useful, or one that you just simply need. Well long story short I finally walked in, and I actually got a pretty nice teacher that he could actually controlled the classes that he had. Well indeed, finally the day of the exam came over, and I simply told myself that I could do it that I simply just had to read it carefully, and just simply had to take my time, and this time I was going to pass because, I had a really good teacher, and a really nice class that simply let me listen to all the

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