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Personal Narrative: Junior High

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Junior High Ah, Junior High. Those awkward years between sixth and ninth grade when I had no earthly idea what to do with myself. I remember them well. I had to get used to being in a school that wasn’t an elementary school, the way older kids were acting, and how things were in my new school. For seventh grade, I lived in Phoenix. It was an odd experience because I was used to being in an elementary school with grades one through six, but the middle school I went to was only for grades seven through eight. Even though it only had two grades, the school was packed. And it was a pretty large school. I remember hearing that there were about one thousand four hundred students enrolled at the school. That number might stagger other kids, but I was used to being in big schools like that. The weird part was the large number of other kids my age. From about sixty to around six hundred was quite a jump to make after only a summer break. …show more content…

That isn’t to say they were all sarcastic and took every chance they could to cause problems but they were more mature. In elementary, it was all fun and games but being in middle school was a little more serious to me. The other students took their homework more seriously and tried harder not to be absent. It was quite a shock from wanting to miss every day I could. Everything seemed to have a deeper meaning at that time as well, especially friendships. I almost feel we treasured them more then than es do in high school. Everyone wanted to have that group of friends like in those movies about the perfect high school and the jocks etc. etc. Of course, we still acted like elementary students in our free time but class time was just that. Class

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