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My High School Locker Essay

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"Here's your locker combination. Just go right down that hall," said Mrs. Breech pointing toward the sophomore hall. I walked into the sophomore hall so that I could find my locker and make sure that my combination worked. I turn the shiny black dial right to 27, left to 49, right again to 32. Clicking at each number, the lock clicked once more as I lifted the small silver latch. I was ecstatic that my clean, creamy white locker had the correct combination. That would make my life a lot easier when school started in two weeks. On the first day of school, my locker is still clean and radiant in the fluorescent hall lighting. Gradually books accumulate on the bottom shelf, and syllabuses and lists of rules fill the top shelf. My …show more content…

They also add a little fruity pizzazz to the stale air. Joining the fruit loops on the bottom shelf, are the contents of the entire Library of Congress, which includes my English, history, chemistry, and algebra textbooks. Also on the bottom shelf is a dark pink magnetic organizer that has detached itself from the magnet. The magnet hangs on the locker wall, lonely without its companion and bearing gluey emotional scars. The gray sweatshirt on the hook has been replaced with a heavy Pacific Trail jacket that is the same color as the deep blue waters at Morrow Point. A pair of blue and red striped gloves peek from the pocket of the jacket. My wallet, which contains my driver's permit, brings light into the pocket that it shares with the gloves, by casting radiant beams of light off of my Eiffel tower key chain. On the very bottom shelf is a small photograph album, whose front cover is decorated with some type of green leaf. Inside are my favorite photographs; my grandparents on their wedding day, my mother's senior picture, a delicate ballerina, the Denver Zoo, my best friends from Denver and last but not least my sixteenth birthday cake. A fully stocked pantry on the upper shelf includes such items as, a Kit Kat, golden almond and oats 'n' honey granola bars, and a chilled mixture of unsweetened coffee and hot chocolate in its own 13 ounce cup with rendition of Van Gogh's Starry Starry Night. The cup not only holds the coffee; it adds

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