[Translation from Japanese to English ] -I still remember the feeling of that day not wanting to go home. Coming acro...

Original text

・私はその日の帰りたくないという気持ちを今でも覚えている。私にとってこの学校との出会いはすごく衝撃的だった。この日の出来事が私を新しい世界に連れて行くことになった。
・とにかく成績を上げることに関して何かに取りつかれたように努力し続けた。いつしか両親にも先生にも勉強しろとは言われなくなった。今では想像できないくらいストイックな自分だったに違いない。まるで誰かが私の背中を突然突き飛ばして、今までたどっていた悪いレールを外れたようだった。

Translation / English

-I still remember the feeling of that day not wanting to go home. Coming across this school was a really impressive incident for me. That day eventually led me to the whole new world.
-I was obsessed to improve my grades and kept working so hard. Gradually my parents and teachers stopped telling me to study. I must have been unimaginably stoic at that time. It was as if someone suddenly pushed my back from behind to get me off the evil track I was following till then.

Translation / English

・I still remember my feelings of not wanting to return home that day. For me, my encounter with that school was extremely shocking. The incident that day brought me to a new world.
・Anyway, I continued working hard to raise my grades in an obsessive way, one way or another. Before I knew it, my parents and my teachers had stopped telling me to study. Now, there's no mistaking I was stoic beyond my imagination. It was honestly like somebody had abruptly thrust at my back and pushed me off the bad rail I had been on up until now.

Translation / English

・I still remember the feeling that I didn't want to go home that day. It was such a shocking encounter with this school and what happened that day brought me to a whole new world.

・I put out my best efforts to improve grades like I was obsessed. In time, both of my parents and teacher stopped pushing me into study. I must have been incredibly stoic as I can hardly imagine today. It was as if all of sudden somebody gave me a kick in the back to get off the bad track I was walking on.