<p>So i was looking at the different topics for the common app essay and i realized the sad truth that i haven't really done anything really significant in my life. I am a competitive figure skater and i am editor in chief of my school yearbook but i dont think i can really write an essay that is really good with that. so i am going to say one experience in my life that i feel is "essay worthy"</p>
<p>When i was in 6th grade i went to school for one year in India. I was born and raised in America and my family would go to India every few summers to visit my family. Dont ask me why i did it, because i honestly don't remember. I think it was a challenge from my dad and i cant resist a challenge. I studied there at a private school and took all the subjects any 6th grader would take. I also took the language Tamil while i was there, which is the official language of the state where my family was from. (FYI- there are like a billion languages in India) Now i knew how to speak the language and everything, but i couldnt read or write. i was basically "illiterate" and thrown into 6th grade with a bunch of kids who had been learning this language their whole life when i didn't even know the alphabet. Well i learned the 200 plus letters from the alphabet and slowly started sounding out the letters. I had help from my family and a tutor who would help me with my schoolwork. I worked hard and by the end of the year my grades had improved. I went from a pitifully low 4 F to an 80 B (even though they consider 80-100 an A there) i was now scoring better than some actual Tamil speaking Indians. I got to spend a whole year with my family and embrace my indianness and didn't become a reverse racist later in my life like some Indians i know. i came back to America for 7th grade continued my education there and i am now a rising senior. And yes, i still remember Tamil and can read pretty fluently though i do have to sound out certain words now and then</p>
<p>So is that decent or is it absolute garbage? i will make it all sophisticated sounding later, but i mean is the overall idea and topic good? Be honest but not brutally honest. :]</p>