My experience at Lincoln

I went to Lincoln elementary of Laporte Indiana from kindergarten through fifth grade. My experiences at Lincoln were up and down.  There were times that I loved school and times that I absolutely hated school. Growing up I had anxiety about school. I would feel sick many mornings before arriving at school and beg my mom to let me stay home. This was a difficult time for me and part of the reason I want to be a teacher today. I always felt that my teachers did not really understand the way I felt about school. I felt like I had good teachers and they all wanted the best for their students, but they did not know how to help me with my anxiety or did not understand. This was the case until second grade that is when I felt like I had a teacher that really understood what I was going through and wanted to do anything to help. She truly turned school around for me. I started to feel more comfortable in class and wanted to contribute. She is one of the reasons I want to be a teacher. It takes a special person to try to understand the feeling of another person and try to help them and that is exactly what she did.  Through my experience I think I will be able to relate to many children and help them through their hard times. The rest of my elementary experience was positive it just took that one special teacher to help me through the hard time. I feel fortunate to have attended the elementary school that I did. It was more of a traditional school but I feel that I received a good education from Lincoln Elementary.