text: Students can figure out what they're into, what they like to do and what they don't like to do. When students participate in different activities they figure out that they might like soccer and pottery, but hate drawing and writing. They get to figure out what they enjoy and what they don't enjoy, and some may like doing something so much that they might what to do it as a job later in life when they're older. In 5th grade I joined orchestra because I wanted to try something new. I chose to play the cello because I had heard people playing their cello's a while ago, but I remembered how beautiful it sounded. Also because I had seen a movie then about this girl who played the cello and she played beautiful pieces and wanted to play the cello as her career. It was an amazing movie and after watching it I could not get it out of my head. So that's when I decided i wanted play the cello. The first year playing the cello was pretty difficult because I did not know how to read the music and my teacher at my elemetry school was not really teaching me how to read the notes, but I was not really trying to either so that made it pretty difficult. The second year was a little better but still pretty bad because I still had not learned how to properly read the music. I had the same music teacher as last year and she still did not teach me how to read the notes or what they were called, but then again, just like last year, I was not really trying either. I would recognize some of the notes but still had no idea what they were called. So in those two years i basically learned how to play the cello, but not how to read what I played. Coming into middle school, I did not think I would continue to play the cello, considering my experience from the 2 years before, but I did choose to continue playing the cello going into middle school. That's where I met my new orchestra teachers and they taught me how to read the music. It took sometime but know I can read music sheets perfectly fine and I continued to play the cello into 8th grade as well. I tried something new, and the first 2 years were not the best, but towards the end, I ended loving to play the cello, even if Im not the best at it. Growing up kids find out what they enjoy and what they dislike, and that shapes how they see things and their personality. Including figuring what they want to do in the future, by figuring out what they enjoy doing, and avoiding the things they don't enjoy doing or being apart of, while having fun.