When I was six, I went to a local grade school. In grade school, I was behind the other children because of my speech and reading problems the children would shout, “You are a dummy (a stupid person ), you are a dummy, ” and so on. I thought they were right because all my grades showed it. I had no self-confidence.
Through the first five years of grade school, I was small and very clumsy(笨拙). I would drop cups and trays in the café, and sometimes trip my foot on something and fall onto the floor when I walked. In the sixth grade, I became interested in sprots . The class had its yearly sports meet. Each class would have its own team compete against each other. I went out for all of the teams. I was not the best but I was not bad. The thing that I could do was run and run fast. This shocked the other children because I was so clumsy, and the came a lot more name-calling from the children. When somebody else won a race, the children told how good he was. When I won, they called me names.I did not know why they were doing this. I think that it was unfair, and it hurt me. between seventh and eighth grade, I started to grow. In three months, I grew seven inches. At the start of eighth grade, I began to play football. I was much bigger than everybody else. I was faster than most of the backs we played against. The other team would not run the ball towards me, so I just ran them down. It was the first time in my life that I was really good at something and knew it. It was a new feeling of pride.