Personal Narrative: How School Changed My Life

I was told in the 4th grade that school will get harder and harder, I was told that middle school and high school will get harder than elementry school.

In 2015 when i was in 5th grade i changed schools to lafayette parish school and the food was BAD.And the kids were mean well alot of them.The wait for our parents and the long line of cars,and they made us pay alot of money.So we moved to scott middle and i liked it some of my friends were there and the gym was fun the food was good unlike the other school.But it changed my life because i used to be like a little trouble maker well not that much but until i came here i was not so much trouble.I was happy and i loved the teachers and it made a change in my life i dont really like the teachers that much over here i love them,and the work may be hard,but i know it no matter how hard it is i will get

After sitting at the same desk for three years, I figured I was beyond seeing anything new. I was wrong. After that third year I saw a lot more than I thought I would. I went up to high school and everything was so much different. The grades were harder, the assignments were harder and the teachers were harder.

So the first thing I want to talk about is how middle school changed my life. When I was first coming into middle school, I was really scared and nervous about a lot of things like not being able to open your locker, bad people, swearing, and a lot of other stuff. Once I first came into middle school, things were, well a lot different than expected. I had no problem opening my locker, the “scary” people weren’t that scary, and swearing was just blocked out of my mind. I really wasn’t that nervous the next day and I just went on going to classes and learning like I usually did. Now about a few months into the school year, I kept on meeting people and making more friends. Little did I know that I would meet my best friend. Like BEST FRIEND.

The summer of 2012 was the start of the downward spiral into my high school career. This ass hole guy decided to dump me and my dumb ass kept going after him when I know I shouldn’t have so I got hella drunk one night (as a 14 year old) and made this hilarious video with my bff that people hated apparently even though we looked hot. And so we got kicked out of cheer lol. Stupid mrs hatfield even had the vid on her phone like wtf lol. So yeah great start to high school.

Your marriage day, the birth of your children, the day a parent died, these are a handful of the events that stick with you for the rest of you life. These are events that no matter what happens later on in life, are permanently ingrained in your memory for the rest of your life. These are memories that are so incredibly vivid that you remember where you where, what you were doing, and even what you were wearing when it took place. I remember experiencing an event like this in middle school, and it has changed my life.

As a child we are always asked, “ What do you want to be when you grow up?” I just never really knew how to answer that. I always had a love for sports and taking care of others. I went back and forth and just never could decide what to do, then of course life gets busy and school got put on the back burner. I knew I wanted a career and not just a job, something I would love to do and not just the daily grind. My husband and I prayed for God to lead us in a direction that would work for us and our family. Of course God’s plan might be different then yours.

Last year, I was shy of speaking English because I didn’t know a lot. I was afraid that the people would laugh about me If I said something wrong. But the last day of school, my English ESL (English Second Language) told me, “Saul, come”, so I went, “I just wanted to tell you that you have developed your English a lot, and next year you are not going to be in the ESL program anymore, I don’t want you to be afraid of talking English. Good luck.” I thought she was right, so this year I’m not scared of talking English anymore.

Starting high school gave me the opportunity to meet new people, learn new things, and play new sports. Growing up, my parents would let me join as many clubs as possible and play as many sports as I could. Entering the 9th grade gave me the chance to try out for the track and field team. It was something new for me. Since I was 5’7” and could jump fairly high my main event was jumping hurdles. I also did the long jump and triple jump as well. Let’s just say one day after jumping one of my hurdles it did not end well at all.

My elementary and middle school years were excellent. I got good grades, on time to class everyday, never talked back to the teachers. I was the perfect student.

When I moved to Cape Girardeau from California to attend SEMO, I knew that I would need a job and that it had to be something simple and part-time. Only a week after moving here, my step-cousin Melissa, the director of the after school program at the St. Mary’s Cathedral, mentioned to me over a family dinner that there was a position open. She then continued by asking me, “Would you be interested? You would work with kids and it’s only from three to six on the weekdays.”

I didn’t realize how lonely it get’s when you’re left home alone while the rest of your family are out doing fun things. Sister at an indoor water park and your parents out on a valentine's day date, while i’m stuck at home doing classwork. I couldn’t do anything with any of my friends for about a good 9 weeks as a result of nearly failing Biology in tenth grade with a sixty-five percent. I had to overcome this challenge by working hard to pass all of my classes, and my life has changed for the better with the realization that hard work pays off.

There are many things we need to improve at Floyd County High School. But sports are very important. We think that if we had more money for after school sports that would be a big improvement. We need money for safety in most sports, uniforms for all sports, and money for sport dues. With extra money we really can improve sports.

As a little 8 year old you don’t really think that much about what could happen if you do something maybe a little but not in depth. That’s when it all began my brother was starting online school so I did to 3rd grade began and it seemed pretty easy in the begging my mom helped me; let’s fast forward after being in online school for 3 years. This is when my mom had to work more around 6th grade stuff got harder, the first week is easy there was probably one quiz so I thought this is fine I can sleep in don’t have to worry about stuff at all, boy was I wrong. The next week started then I got more quizzes, portfolios, even a test I thought this is way harder than I expected. I kept getting more and more behind 1 turned into 5 and 5 turned into 10 and so on then I got frustrated because all the stuff piled up.

Although there are many changes I have made since I got into middle school here are only few of many. When I got into middle school I became more mature, I play basketball, and I have more friends. Though I have many more differences. My differences may be small and some may be big. Though I do hope them all were good changes.