Memoir

I always hated writing memoirs in high school, because I thought that was not anything important or interesting enough to write about.  I just picked a story and faked some of the details to make it more interesting, but my grades reflected that.  My teacher's had a tendency to give me a low A because I put effort into it, however, the same comment was on all of them, "Show don't tell," or "Needs to have more meaning."  So, when you assigned this project, I thought to myself, here we go again.  Then you told us to read 'making memoir' over break and it would help with the writing process.  And it did.  As I was reading the project didn't seem that difficult.  Why wasn't this explained to me when I had to write memoirs before.  I had a million ideas to choose from, but I decided to write about my first time driving with my instructor.  This event is so fresh in my mind, it feels like it only happened last year instead of 3.  All the details are so clear and I feel like it would be perfect to write about.   I feel like this would be a good story to make into an audio file, however, is there anyway we do not have to do it in class?  I would feel weird making it when almost the entire class would be listening to it while I was making it, which would make me uncomfortable.  If not then that would be alright.