Narrative Essay On Adolescence

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Personal Adolescence When I was in my adolescences I did an immense amount of changing and growing. During this period in my life many things changed, such as, my appearance, body, feelings, friends, and my self-confidence. I was forming myself through the experiences I had. I made many choices in my adolescences that shaped me into who I am today. When I was in elementary school, I did not care what anyone thought of me. I was a complete tomboy in the way I dressed and acted. I wore mostly long basketball shorts and t-shirts and never wanted my hair to be fixed by my mom. During recess I, always played football with the boys and loved to play all different kinds of sports. When I transition to middle school, I started to care more about …show more content…

I usually did not care about what others would say to me because I just loved playing sports with the boys, but going into middle school, I began having an interest in learning how to do my makeup and fix my hair. This transition into becoming less of a tomboy was not easy because I did not want anyone to make a big deal out of me wearing nicer clothes or putting on makeup. In middle school I remember hanging out with some of my girlfriends and they helped me do my makeup and pick out a cute outfit. This was the very first time I put on makeup and I had fun doing it with my friends. From sixth to ninth grade my appearance and the way I held myself changed …show more content…

One day in class my PE coach noticed that I was athletic and asked me to come to volleyball tryouts. I had never played volleyball in my entire life, but I enjoyed almost every sport I had ever played, so I decided to give it a shot. I ended up making the team and playing throughout middle school and for enjoyment through high school. This is something that helped me in many different ways. In elementary school, I had mostly friends that were boys, but since joining the volleyball team I then had a whole squad of girls that became my friends. Then later in the year I played on the basketball team and made even more friends that were girls. Now I had way more friends that were girls than guys. In middle school having girl friends was important because we were all able to relate with one another in the changes we were going

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