Fear and insecurity can stop you from trying new things. There were times where I did poorly because I told myself I couldn’t do it. I believe in confidence. Being insecure got me nowhere, so I learned to have confidence in myself. It began during my 7th-grade year when my older sister started the castle project. I knew I wasn’t the best at history or building so when I entered the 8th grade and neared the time when we would start building I was really nervous. I teamed up with my friend Ines and began to work on the project. I continued to second guess myself and my friend's ideas. The thought that I was terrible at building was stopping me from trying. The week before the project was due Ines and I started to worry that we weren’t going to finish. The weekend before the project was due was when we started to get work done. We built some of the houses out of egg cartons and painted them brown to give them a medieval look. We put more effort into a couple of the buildings, including the church, the manor house, and the blacksmith’s shop. We ended up finishing the night before it was due. When we brought it into the cafeteria in the morning, it was frightening to see all of the other projects. We left our project and looked around at the others. There was so …show more content…
The usual announcements came first then the winners of the project were announced. First was the castle winners then the cathedral winners and lastly the manor winners. Time started to slow down when they began to announce the winners. Ines and I looked at each other, her telling me that we were going to win and me disagreeing. But when they did finally announce the winners, and we learned we had tied for 1st place with another group I was astonished. I’d never thought that I would ever win something that had to do with building. Even with the help of Ines, it was still a