Erica+H's+Goals+for+Freshman+Year+and+Beyond

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I am not the smartest person in the world, nor am I the dumbest. I have never bungee jumped from the tallest bridge on this planet, eaten spaghetti in Italy, traveled across the world in 80 days, or tanned in Hawaii. I may never learn to love purses, dresses and heels. I doubt that I will ever learn my lesson on procrastinating, but I may finally turn something in early. My name is Erika Hurtado and I am a 9th grader or more known as “freshmeat” in high school. I have so many personal and academic goals for my 9th grade year alone.

Let’s start off with my academic goals. First of all, I want to achieve the goal that seems the farthest away from where I am standing right now. I want to get a 4.0 at least twice this year. I try really hard to get good grades to make my parents proud, but mostly to make myself proud. Right now I am still trying to get use to the whole gist of high school so my grades are kind of wobbly, but I am going to get there. I know I am. I really want to do great in ASB and not let anybody down. I want to actually start participating more and gaining some confidence in class. At the moment I just blend into the background, but I want to be bold and be noticed by the end of the year.

Now on to my more personal goals for my so called amazing freshmen year. This year I want to make so many new friends and meet so many new people. I dread going through the awkward moments during lunch and break where I am looking for my friends. I want our class of 2014 to be a family. I want to have great relationships with all of my teachers because that is really important. My personal goal for ASB is to be brought into the little family that they have there. I don’t want to be so awkward with them anymore. I have to open up and let them in first before they let me in. Overall, I just want to have an incredible life at Foothill Tech. I want my freshman year to surpass everyone’s lame expectations of high school.

Life? I want so much out of it. In the future I want to be accepted and graduate from UC Berkeley. After university I want to become one of those cool teachers who everyone loves. During those years of my life I also want to become part of the Sea Sheppard crew. They are a crew of anti-whaling people who go to Antarctica and fight for whales. And of course what girl doesn’t want to marry her prince charming and have kids. All in all, I have so many hopes and expectations for my 9th grade year and beyond.