Middle School Life Narrative

When I was growing up, I never expected to be made fun of. I didn’t know that being overweight was going to be a problem. I lacked the courage to defend myself from bullies who often teased me. They laughed and even made jokes about me because I was out of shape and quiet. Being different was a tough experience for me in middle school and in elementary school since I didn’t know how to defend myself and even less, ask for help. Kids wouldn’t come up to me and ask me to play with them.Instead, I spent most of the time alone.

It was the eve of middle school, I think; I sure wasn't really keeping track. The promised day had arrived, my grades were as sound as a tuned trumpet; and I was just done with a C- in music. However, I kept my behavior to the minimum of a 5th grader; something that was much more welcomed than the awkward and apathetic existence of middle schoolers. I’ve been keeping myself on the down low for a good month when my math teacher announced to us that we would be having a boat trip for the most well behaved student, and take a guess who was first of her list! It was Samuel. However, sure enough I was able to weasel and bribe my way in with compliments and good behavior into the list as seventh place! Even better news was that I could bring a parent

Going back and rereading page 71, made me think about how unprepared I initially felt about starting high school. Before I had even started, I was worrying that I would be drowning in assignments and projects, and would not have any of the same friends from middle school. High school seemed so large and important compared to middle school, and I could not wrap the idea around my head that I was going to be a freshman. High school had always seemed so grown up to me and so were the people in it. I was nervous that I was going to hate it like every high schooler in the movies said they did, but after the first few weeks I realized it really was not that bad. I realized that high school was not that different from middle school and I did not

Throughout the time I was in middle school I lacked support from both my parents. I didn’t have anyone to push me to try and receive good grades and both my parents cared very little whether I passed my classes. Lacking parental guidance, I received poor and failing grades throughout all of middle school. I created a poor working habit and had the mindset that school was not for me. It wasn’t until the end of my 8th grade year that I realized that the grades I received could ultimately shape my future. By then I was far behind from other students who had received good grades all of middle school. At the start of high school I was placed into regular ed classes and put in elective classes just to fill up my schedule. These classes put me

I remember when I was going to the middle school becoming a seventh grader and on the second day of school, I spotted my first love. Little did I know that he had a girlfriend. I didn’t pay her any attention because of the fact that I liked him so badly. By the way, they were on and off so I wasn’t stun nothing about her. Days were passing and I was watching him like a hawk. I didn’t know his name until one day, his homeboy came to me that morning and said, “my boy poke said wassupp?” I was blushing so hard but I played it off so I wouldn’t just throw myself out there to him. However, I said, “okay” meaning yes. He then walked away going back telling him what I said and that’s when I went to my 1st period class. While I walking there, I was thinking to myself “his nickname is poke.”

Middle School is a time in adolescent’s lives where their physical, and equally important social development, is at a delicate and crucial point. For those who inherit socially favorable genes, certain aspects of life become easy, and those individuals can go through life rather nonchalantly. However, the life of a pre-teenager and a young teenager is difficult when you’re only as tall as other kid’s sternums and weigh less than the book stuffed backpack you lug around all day.

It was high school; what was I to expect? Hundreds of individuals trying to find their way to their new classes, just like me. You have different people in every class, and sometimes you have to cross the school just to get to one school. I thought I wasn't going to survive. However, I did, fortunately for me, and it was one experience that was totally different from middle school.

This has been my reality for 13 years. I have always been “that kid” who sat at the lunch table alone because I lacked friends.All the other kids boast about how great the school is and how enjoyable middle school is. However, I beg to differ. I have fallen behind in my academics, failing every single class I am enrolled in. I am even failing gym. Gym? Who fails gym is right? I don’t show up because it puts me in a position to be bullied. I often sit in the bathroom during that period thinking. I would always ask myself why. Why did I have to be the loner in the school? Why couldn’t my parent afford the clothes everyone else is wearing? Why couldn’t girls be attracted to me? This angered me; I was angry at the world. I even contemplated suicide

I started freshman year as a scared little freshman. I entered Blackfoot high school for the first time with a million little butterflies dancing in my stomach. I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to find my friend and would be alone. I was terrified of upper classman and avoided them at all costs. I eventually found my friends, figured out were my classes were and realized that everything was going to be okay. I wish that there was all there was to my high school experience. I wish it had been as simple as just being with friends and being able to attend classes but it wasn’t. Things weren’t always as okay as they were on that first day of school. Some days got hard and some years got harder. But in the end I have learned and grown from my high school experience.

Honestly, I loved middle school. I never had any problems to all the school I went to during that time, I had a lot of f friends that to this day I still talk to and ended with having honor roll. My first middle school was here in Arizona at Estrella Mountain that I went to for the first third of sixth grade so I do not have many memories from that year there. Then I moved to Saint Johnsbury, Vermont to attend the rest of my sixth grade at Saint Johnsbury middle school. All of my memories at that school were of my class and I always being outside. We had endless field trips of going snowboarding, snowshoeing, sledding, camping and then do some of the most erratic things such as studying the population of the trees in our forest,

Being in a new town going into a middle school for the first time was terrifying. While I was familiar with the town, it had been years since I had lived there, 7 years in fact. In my new school they only people I knew were my sister, who was in the same grade as me, and my older brother who was in 8th grade, a grade above me. After a few months, I was told that I was a cry baby, that I was too weak, that I was dumb, and that I was tiny. I hated these phrases. They made me feel like nothing and they came not only from my classmates but my sister too. While my sister was kind to me, she was also mean.

I walked through the long the hallways at Summit High School. The high school was a lot bigger than the middle school and elementary school. It was my first day of high school and I was afraid of how things would be for my freshman year. But I had couple of my friends that helped me out, the first day of school they introduced me to their friends. Receiving good grades at the high school, I was still on the honor roll.

It all started my freshman year. When I arrived at school on my first day of high school, I knew my life was going to be very different. For starters, the classes seemed to have made a big change. My classes were different because each one required more work and dedication. The one thing I remember loving most about my freshman year was the new friends I made. Because of my involvement in high school sports and clubs, I was able to make friends with most upper classmen. One of my favorite memories was track season. I ran a relay with two seniors and a sophomore in my school and we all became really close. That season brought us closer together than we would have ever imagined, and I’m proud to say that I made it to state with them.

One of the most remarkable life experiences for me was my first year in high school I think , I had some of the best times of my life every year in high school but I feel like my freshman year was the best time . Everyone made it out to seem like the freshman year was the worst for them but for the most part it was fun, one thing I didn’t do was take the most advantage of it as I should and I’ll tell you about that later on.

The high school that I was in gave me an interesting experience. I was able to learn and experience different lessons with in my high school. Three of those life lessons that I went through are when my school was placed on lockdown, another experience is a club that I joined which helped really mature. Finally the other experience I faced in high school was that some of my friends that I had wanted me to join them in some bad situations but I kept myself out of those situations.