Places that have shaped me

I never really thought about what places shaped me into who I am. I'm going to start off with both sets of grandparents houses. I spent most of my childhood alternating from house to house, always visiting grandma and grandpa. My grandmother taught me how to speak Armenian, she showed me so much kindness and I wanted to be just like that. She also showed me how to appreciated people who are kind. My grandpa helped me with my confidence. When I was younger he would always take me order. Which I always hated because I was so nervous and soft spoken, but it ended up helping me.  Relating to my culture I went to a school a town over from Woburn, in Lexington there was a school called Armenian Sisters Academy. I learned more about my culture from this school. There is a bit of a down side to this school though, I was neglected in my education. I had fallen behind in my classes, my teachers did not help me when I had a question. They only seemed to pay attention to my classmates who were at a normal pace in the class. I have always been embarrassed because of how that school treated me. Around second grade I started to receive tutoring from an elementary school in Woburn. I would leave during the last class of the day to go to the White elementary school, I would go there for speech therapy, math, and English help. A year later I transferred into public school. Public school felt like a nightmare to me, none of the kids seemed really nice. There we're also a lot of kids in class, keep in mind my old class only had four kids in it. My confidence disappeared after my first year in public school. Everyone liked to pick on each other which I rarely ever saw back at my old school. I wished I was invisible, kids used to call me stupid because I was slower when learning something new. That's when I started to grow extremely sensitive to what people would say to me. I guess you could say that those kids also motivated me in some strange way, because  I gave up most of my time doing school work. I would skip recess and say after with the teacher for extra help. I just wanted to feel comfortable being in class when being called on for once. I always felt anxious in school since I was in the fourth grade. As for middle school, that just felt like a train wreck to me. It was like elementary school, but the kids were just plain evil. So I'm just going to move on to high school. I think that's where things sort of started to come together. There is a good and a bad side to high school shaping me. I feel like I have grown a little bit of a callus so things don't really hurt me or bother me as much. But, at the same time high school has caused me to have a little bit more anxiety while doing homework and projects than before.