Undergraduate / (My love for running) "Short Answer" activities [2]

"Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences in the space below (1000 character maximum)."
So, I have to write a "short answer" for my common application. and I just throw a few things together. I'll really appreciate it if you can help with that and also if you have any ideas how to continue the essay would be great. Please feel free to change anything because I know it's not good . Thank you

My love for running.

I have always been an active kid. I had a lot of energy and like every other kid I had to lose it somewhere. On the age of thirteen I started training rowing. I quickly develop my love for the sport. As one of the toughest sports in the world, Rowing is combined with so many other sports that improve your strength, speed, resistance and your whole body. One of these sports is running.

Over the years I realized how much I love to run. Whenever I'm stressed,or just want to stay alone with my thoughts and set my mind in order , all I need is a good pair of running shoes and that's it. . The road doesn't have questions, doesn't care who you are or what your work is, all it wants from you is to be on it.When I'm running I feel safe, just run, relax and breathe. I'm fascinated how something so simple and pure can make you happy every day. I just can't imagine my life without running and I'll always have this unconditional love for it.

Undergraduate / Mrs. Peneva- this kind, caring, extraordinary person - influential person [5]

Hello, I'm a bad writer, but I'll be really grateful if you can advice me on how I can improve my essay . I know that there are grammatical mistakes... my english is not perfect. Thank you.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.

I would like to think that people are brought into my world and I into theirs for a reason. We have so much to learn from eachother and I treasure each and every person no matter if it's good or bad. I have learned something from them.

One of the people whom I was incredibly lucky to meet and has had a significant influence on me was my high school teacher - Mrs. Peneva.

I was in 7th grade when I met her for the very first time. And the the first thing that I noticed was her students behavior around her.

They were so calm and happy and just with a slight glance you can see how much respect thay have for her.
To my regred I hadn't the chance to be in her clasess until my last year in high school. Some of my classmates alredy had been in her clasess, but for the rest of us, the first couple of weeks were very interesting.

I had the chance to taste from her knowledge and the way she thought her lessons made me to really listen , to have that eager to learn. After every lesson she awlays managet to leave something new in my mind to think about.

During this last year in high school, she thought me the most important lesson -to always be myself and never change for anybody, to do what makes me happy and that it's OK to make mistakes in life, because mistakes are those who makes us wiser.

Each person that we encounter in our life can be considered as an experience in itself. This experience develops us as individuals , making us unique. I think that people whom we have met,and those whom we are about to meet throughout our life became a part of the person who me are.

Mrs.Peneva- this kind, caring, extraordinary person made me individual and
I can not be more greateful to her for having thought me the greatest lesson of all - life.