Each year I was making more and new friends easier, but academically eleventh grade was the hardest year to conquer. Junior year was filled with many challenges, but I never thought that my hardships would bring me closer to my family and to God.…
The day I got accepted into CSN high school led to two years of personal growth, intellectual advancement, a new understanding of others and myself, and college readiness. I was able to get ahead in my education compared to most students my age. I became ready for college and for a more mature environment. I had a time where I had to develop a new understanding for my self. I would have to act as an adult and be more mature with all the freedom the college environment offered. Luckily going to college wont be scary because I know what to expect and I have two years of…
When I was in the fifth grade, I found out that my parents were divorcing after eight years of what we told everyone else was a wonderful marriage. That year I began to understand that just because you promise something to someone else, it doesn't mean that you'll be able to keep it. I learned that people are significantly more complex than I had grown to think, and sometimes people will do the wrong thing for good reasons, or at least what they thought to be good reasons. One of the most important things i learned that year was how to smile,…
The beginning of my freshman year in high school changed my life. I had set many types of goals for myself this year including making friends, helping others and being a part of the most incredible organization, Blue Guards. Blue Guards is apart of the Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps at Oxon Hill High School. Blue Guards was not only a drill team, it was a family, a family of girls and boys working together, leading others, having discipline, and respecting each other as a team. Walking into the first day of school knowing I was going to be part of this team made me light up like a light bulb.…
6th grade came to an end and 7th grade came around next. 7th grade was the beginning of junior high school. Junior high school means a new school. And with my luck, none of my friends were at this new beginning of my life. Because my anxiety has grown since the beginning of 5th grade, I wasn’t excited on going to a new school to make new beginnings.…
During my freshman year, I had a lot going on personally. My parents got a divorce the summer before my freshman year, and I also transferred schools. I went through a huge transition with a new school and family life. I transferred to Algona High School my freshman year because I was getting bullied and picked on at my last school. When I first came here, I was struggling with the idea of being somewhere new. I was very nervous about making new friends because of my past experience at school. These two hardship made me become more independent and grow up a lot faster. It made me step out of my box and make new friends. The third hardship I had to go through was in my sophomore year; I lost one of my best friends to breast cancer. My aunt died in October of my sophomore year, and it had a huge effect on me. Her two boys and I were going through a very emotional time. I had to help take care of them and try to take care of myself on top of it. This hardship changed me a lot and taught me to live life to the fullest and to be a caring and loving person. These three hardships in my high school career has changed me for the…
It was my first week I was back in school since being in the hospital. My best friend at the time who was so much more than just my best friend she was like my sister, the one who I can run to and talk to about anything. She was my other half where…
Sixth grade, the first year in the new middle school building. It was about the third week into school and a teacher came up to me and asked me to watch over this kid named Justin. (He was different from everyone else, he had a birth-defect.) I said sure, why not, he seems to be nice. He only had one friend, and that one friend I wouldn't say was a good one. Later that week I was called into the disciplinarian's office, her name was Mrs. Landry. She was the seventh grade Social Studies teacher. So wanted me to tell her everything that happened, I didn't what to tell her,…
Our first stop was at kindergarten, where we thought school was just a place your parents dropped you off to get you out of their hair; which, I still believe. We weren’t informed that every year the school work got harder, that there where no more letters to color in, or numbers you could count on our fingers, or even that some of the teachers got meaner, but through all of that we came along the best nail in the track, which is best friends.…
In first grade, it was my first year in public school so I didn’t have as much friends as the the people that were in kindergarten last year. When I walked into the room, both of my parents on each of my side they introduced to my teacher then I sat in the empty seat. The person assigned to sit next was a girl named Chloe. At first sight, I mesmerized by the amount of silly bands she had. At that moment I knew I had to be her friend.…
My7th grade year showed me that I can take on challenges and learn how to cope with change. Although being in a new place with new people is not the easy, it is one of the many challenges of life…
Freshman year of high school was an exciting and nerve wrecking time. The first week of school I stuck close to my friend from middle school. We had hung out over the summer nonstop and were extremely close. That first week we did not see each other much during the school day. All our classes seemed to be different except our lunch periods. This friend was someone I trusted and let influence me, for better or worse.…
As the end of my eighth grade year was rapidly approaching and becoming a high school…
Becoming a freshman in high school, made me feel like one of the older kids. I wasn’t a kid in middle school anymore. High school was a new surrounding with new people to meet. In all of my six classes, I only had one friend that I knew. His name was Michael Thompson. Michael was in my fifth period math class. He was always a class clown.…
I was in my final year at Rodeo High School. I was only seventeen and the pressure of knowing the outcome of post high school results would determine my whole life ahead finally got to me. I snapped out of my bewilderment one day, in the absence of my parents while they were out on vacation, I went out with my friends, hoping to find myself spiritually and mentally. This was the turning point in my life that would ultimately lead to my destiny.…