Personal Narrative: The First Two Years Of My High School Career

Throughout my Jr. High and High School career, I've had many pastimes and hobbies that I found I could participate in outside of the classroom for. During the seventh grade and all the way until my sophomore year of High School I participated in basketball. From the seventh grade until my senior year of high school I participated in cross-country. In Middle School I participated in wrestling, and most recently I have partaken in soccer for my junior and senior year of High School. Besides sports I spent a good amount of time dedicating myself to volunteer for the local parks and rec center. I volunteered on projects such as the Annual Triathlon, the Haunted House, and many more. I also volunteered for the local Clinic during their annual 5K Color Run.

Back within seventh grade towards the start of the school year I was put into a course called "Advanced Art" and I sat with a friend. My friend, Javier, wasn't suppose to have the class so he was sure to leave within weeks. During the time with him I noticed this big group of friends that seemed quite interesting to me. Around the time when he had his classes changed the song "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus came along and I drew a funny picture about it. I introduced myself into the big group and at first they seemed off about me but then they accepted me, especially this one girl named Tiffany. We had a few classes together so we would sit together and this was a start of a story of best friends.

Being a freshman is the hardest of your four years in high school. Have you ever been pressured to be the best person you can be? This is how my year was as a freshman. Freshman year was the most different I never thought I would of found my way around the school when I first started to go there. Freshman year was the best year throughout my years of high school and it was the only year I had friends. During this year I had a lot of anxieties which dealt with me thinking I’m gonna be alone and not have any friends throughout the year to support me through the whole thing. Also, I would think of the pressure of not doing good in any of my classes so I would think it would affect my GPA in the future. The transition from middle school to high school was a different type of thing to do.

Your senior year was the best year of your high school career. You made so many friends, your grades were higher than they’ve ever been. You were happier than you’ve ever been. Im proud that you stayed out of drama for almost the entire year. Despite going through heartbreak and surviving a toxic relationship this year, you kept your head up. You competed internationally with your winter guard team. This was by far the most successful year you’ve had, and you should be very proud of all that you have accomplished this year. Some of the things I wanted to accomplish were maintaining good grades, acquiring my esthetics license, and to be accepted into the University of Akron. I had good grades in the beginning of the year,

Developing into a mature, educated adult is like building the perfect sundae. It all starts with cream, sugar, and vanilla beans. After a time, cream becomes ice cream, ready for hot fudge, peanuts, and whipped cream.

Throughout my four years of high school, I have participated in the Red Cross club. During my time there, I've helped my local community and communties else where. I have helped raise money for premature babies with the March of Dimes, I have cleaned the woods around my town, and I have taught little elemetary school kids about water and bus safety. Whether it was organizing books in the library or mangaing a game booth for less foruntiate kids, one of biggest highlight of my four years at high school has been helping my

In my sophomore year of high school, one of my classmates introduced me to join an extra-curricular club that enabled high school students to test their leadership skills by becoming a camp counselor for fifth-grade students at Camp Allegheny. Every time our school hosted club week, she would pull me aside and direct me to the booth labeled “Camp Allegheny.” When the date to turn in Camp Allegheny applications was soon approaching, she would energetically speak about the fun activities, the involvement with the teachers and fifth graders, and the steaming hot chocolate that was to die for.

Around age 5, I began to resolve conflicts between my friends. Two of them were always in disagreement, usually over unequal sharing. At the sight of this, I eventually became fed up and decided to help. One day they both were over at my house, yet again arguing, so I sat them down, suggested that we talk about the issue, and devised a plan on who could use the trampoline when and for how long. We methodically worked out a schedule, and at last, their stubborn mindsets disbanded into a healthy relationship. This instant, and many others like it, formed my wish to help people with the small things, improving and making their life just a bit easier.

I had to make-up an entire month of school, despite my continued migraines and parade of doctor visits. My counselor even asked me if I had considered homeschooling or online school. I would not succumb to this illness. I vowed that day to never give up, no matter how badly I felt. This mindset was a beacon of hope in dark times, giving me the strength to persevere. I continued to make up schoolwork, in addition to staying current with my daily assignments and

In the beginning of my sophmore year I had a break down due to the death of my grandfather. My anxiety was at an all time high because of this I enrolled in online school. I was aware that when taking online courses you needed motivation. Which was something I did not have at that time because my mind was consumed by a constant depression and anxious feelings. This was the most difficult time in my life because I knew I needed to get my life on track and go back to my highschool because it was apparent I did not have what it takes to motivate myself for online school. Four months later I enrolled back into my local high school. I also recieved medication from my doctor to help cope with the negative feelings I encountered on a daily basis.

It was the fact that I had been often gone due to the cause of being sick for days at a time. Sometimes I had even missed school for a full week, this added to my bad grades. Liz Murray had missed a WHOLE chunk of schooldays herself, I was definitely however nowhere near as bad with attendance as that though due to this I had missed very important days such as before tests so when the test finally came I was ill-prepared or even when I missed tests and did not take it later on my own time due to my shyness. It had caused to me to be drawn further and further back for each day that I was gone I was missing more and more valuable information at school. To pass this specific obstacle I had vowed to myself that I would not take advantage of feeling sick as a meaning of not going to school or rather missing days at a time, I vowed that one or two was okay but no more and the rest I would have to go sick whether or not I was feeling bad. It took a lot of commitment to not overrule my own promises but in the end it worked. This has had a significant effect on my academic achievements as I no longer had to worry about falling behind heavily and digging back up to where the rest of the class had been. Such as Liz Murray I had made sure that attendance was now a priority that should be taken seriously and

High school is arguably some of your best years in someone’s school career and many start to notice this when they get to College or graduate.However,some students take it for granted and don’t participate in anything or can’t participate because they’re academically ineligible.In my experience I missed out on a number of events that I wished I hadn’t because I didn’t use my time wisely to do school work it’s ashame that I wasn’t able to participate since you get to only experience them once in your life.

My freshman year of high school I made the junior varsity soccer team. I was told, although I was not the best, I was to train with the team to get better. Fast forward to sophomore year during tryouts on the second cut, I was out, off the team. After this failure I chose to join my high school’s cross country team. I had no experience with competitive running. I had joined late into the season, but under my circumstances the coach allowed me to join the team. The failure of not making the team made me work harder than I could have imagined. For the first time in my life I ran competitively and it ended up to be a success. To the surprise of my friends and family. I became one of the top runners in my group and began passing higher up companies.

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” - Albert Einstein. It can easily be said that my high school career was driven by this saying. From the first day of grade nine I decided that I was going to become an active and prominent member of the school community, not for the recognition, but so that when I graduate I can look back on my years at O’Connor and be proud of the mark I left on the school.

The ring of the last bell echoes in the soon to be flooded halls. The last time I’ll see the walls of lockers full of secrets and rumors from the people you thought were friends. Will I miss the fake friends? The arrogant boys? The teachers who don’t help you when you really need it? Now that I get the opportunity to go to college, I will never look back to those high school days.