Everybody expects life to be “easy” once they are “adults” when, in reality, their lives have just begun. Life is full of surprises, and expectations are based on your perception of these so-called “surprises.” For example, if you were told all your life that other areas aren’t as good as the one that you’ve been living in, growing up in even, then you won’t want to leave the place that you have so many memories from. This happened to me the spring break of 8th grade. I had to move from Jenks to BA, which I absolutely hated at the time, but I soon realized that the move was one of the biggest blessings of my life. Sure, it was stressful at the time but now, looking back on it I realize that I can barely even remember what my old house looks …show more content…
Life is full of gifts, you may not consider them good sometimes, but they’re gifts, and you are destined to get a good one every once in a while. When I got to BA I expected that I would hate everybody here and I wouldn’t make any new friends. All because while I was at Jenks I had heard so many bad things about BA that I didn’t even know what to believe. On my first day of middle school here, I walked into my second hour and just felt plain uncomfortable. I thought that everybody was staring at me and I didn’t realize that I had completely isolated myself from the rest of the class. While we were all supposed to be reading I just sat by myself in the corner because I had no clue who anybody was. After the short period of reading, Mrs. Barker introduced me to the rest of the class, and I was in shock when they all began to introduce themselves and welcomed me into that class so quickly. I made quite a few friends in that one class and that was when I realized that BA may not be so bad after all. After that class I walked down the hallway to Mrs. Cole’s room, where she had just started …show more content…
Drew and I carried our team to the championship in dodgeball and lost it, but still had a great time. And Tanner continued stalling class as much as possible, making me laugh in the process. The only thing I was really nervous about was football, which I hadn’t played at Jenks. I had watched it all my life, and knew all of the rules, but I expected that I would suck at it and shouldn’t even bother trying to get into it. The only reasons that I proceeded with it is because I wanted to try something new that I could be good at, and because Tanner was going to be playing with me. I talked with Tanner on the bus ride from Childers to North Intermediate, and found out that he and I were going out for the same position, so we would be warming up and practicing together. Which gave me a little bit of inspiration, because I realized that I would be competing against one of my friends, but it also made me a little uneasy. I knew that football was a dangerous sport, but I went out for Wide Receiver, and they don’t get hit half as much as other players do. So I expected that I would stay pretty healthy and wouldn't get hit that much, but I was wrong on so many levels. Our coach had us doing all sorts of hitting drills and running all kinds of different routes, which I was generally pretty good at. My only problem was the part of practice where everybody had to do a bunch of hitting drills
Football season blew by and I was so upset that I won’t ever play again, But now that I am where I am at right now I really just can’t wait to get out of here. Annoyed and ready to want to leave all the high school drama that there is. I am excited to start my adult life in college to become a physical therapist assistant, working home care and living in Florida. But for right now im stuck here in Findlay, Ohio where my parents just told me they are getting a divorce. Through All the hardships in my life this one is definitely the hardest on me and my whole family. I remembered a quote from a book called the Glass Castle that I really took to heart and I use that as motivation to keep my mindset on my goals and not let the bad things distract me from what I want in life. The quote that has changed this mindset was
It has been said that the grass is always greener on the other side. Being excited about the newness and challenges of a new place may not enable it to stay green for a lifetime, but the new place is a great place to spend the next four years. So even though I lived my whole high school life in one city where there were no actual problems, it still was time for me to move where there were new experiences.
Even though I thought that it would never be possible judging by the place I had been in 8 months before, I earned a spot starting at cornerback. Though I had the starting spot for the first game, I kept the same mentality that Peterson had taught me unknowingly, to work as hard as you could every single day. After the first game had ended, I felt very confident that I had kept my starting spot. As the games went on, and the season grew deeper into the year, I kept striving to become a better player. Peterson is notorious for shutting down the opposing teams best player, and when week nine and ten came, I took on those duties. I knew that the two kids that I would have to face were bigger and stronger than me, but I knew that size and strength didn’t matter as long as you had confidence in yourself and the teammates around you. I won some and lost some of the many battles fought throughout the entire year. Although I didn’t give up a single touchdown the entire year, our team still lost two games, one ending our season in the first round of playoffs. Throughout the entire season I kept working hard as I possibly could, and in turn, I turned myself into a good football player thanks to
The entire week was memorable but the last night we had for All-State was the most memorable to me. It was a Friday night in the big city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, when the stadium lights were shining down on Tulsa Union’s football field. The football players, trainers, and cheerleaders were at the stadium before anyone else. As I began to walk on the football field with my black Muller trainer bag around my body like a purse, I realized not everyone has had a chance like this. I was very proud to be able to stand on that field with other athletes from different high schools that were very vigorous in football. Before the game started, the west side trainers filled up the water and Gatorade coolers. Then we began preparing the football players by taping their ankles and wrists. The crowd started showing up in the stands and eventually we got introduced before the game started. By the end of the game there were no injuries in the game and the west side I had lost. When the trainers started packing the equipment we used during the game, there was an injury in the stands. The lady had broken her
It was okay to start a new chapter of my life and make new friends at Humboldt. On the first day of school, a seventh grade girl with brown, curly hair, named Haylie, came up to me in the gymnasium to ask me what my name was, and where I had moved from. I told her my name was Annalise, and that I had moved from Moran. Little did I know, this girl would be my best friend for the next six years of my middle and high school career. My new classmates also accepted me and made me feel welcomed. I realized these people would become my new family. Throughout middle school, I noticed that our class was different than the others. We were always the smallest and closest class. Everyone talked to everyone, and we made a lot of memories that I will never forget. This closeness is something I had hoped our class would carry on throughout our high school
Waking up at five in the morning isn't easy, especially when it's summertime. But that was my reality every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. My dad would take me to Ballaban Field and just before practice I would lay down on that field and talk with my teammates for a few minutes. Then practice would start and the next three hours were the most challenging physical times of my life. First we stretched, this was the time to get our mind and body ready for the gauntlet that the coaches would throw down in front of us. Then coach would send offense or defense into the weight room first. If you didn't lift first then you immediately took your shirt off because you didn't want to throw up on your shirt. We'd run and run, surpassing our own expectations of toughness and grit. After running my body ached all over, but I knew we still had an hour of intense lifting ahead. After practice, I would be totally exhausted but satisfied knowing I
Throughout my life, I had always received recognition for being very agile and quick. My first day of Middle School consisted of the track and field coach attempting to persuade me to join the school’s athletics program. I had previously never been apart of an athletics team, and was willing to take advantage of the opportunity. Throughout my three years of middle school, I was the one consistent member of the school’s track and field team and had an overall successful personal record. Coaches from opposing school would praise me leaving me feeling very confident about myself.
So last year in my hometown my mom had approached me and told me that we were moving to Fresno. And that I would be moving to a new school. The thought of leaving, scared me and just made me so angry and full of woe. I have stayed in the same place my whole life. It is where I met my closest friends, it is where I had my first steps, it is where I have done everything. And I also had to make new friends which I suck at, and was soo scared to do. I was mostly scared of what everyone would think of me. And just curious about how everything looked and where everything was. And after all that scaredness and anger it finally came, the first day of school. It was time I had to try and make new friends and go to this humongous new high school and try to fit in.
The first practice hit you hard we started off with sprints and that was awful people throwing up all around me and I can’t catch my breath but you keep pushing it. I think that was the turning point for me I knew that a lot of people looked at me like small kid that shouldn’t play but after beating them in sprints they saw I was not going to give up. Later on that season it was our 4 game in the season we were going up against Carbondale and we are only up by 6 on defense one of our players go down. I just got off the field on offense they said we need someone I ran to them said I will go in they gave me the nod. When I got on the field it was strange because I never played defense at the time I was just thinking just hit the kid with the ball and you will do fine. The ball snapped so I started back peddling and watching the line men to see if they fire off the line if so it was a run if they backed peddled it was a pass. They fired off the line it was a run so my next thought was where but at soon I was thinking that I saw the running back was coming my way so pushed the receiver off me so it was just me and him. It happen so fast the guy and try to make cut outside but I manage to stick my foot in the ground change direction to tackle him. When I looked up at the time
Sadly, my family was going through financial struggles, forcing me out of the school zone I was destined to attend. When I discussed the situation wih the high school coaches they told me they would pick me up from my new house and take me to school every day; with the condition that I’d play football for them all throughout high school. Even though this was illegal I continued to go ahead and accept the offer. My first year of high school was so exciting that it went by in the blink of an eye. Sophomore year came and the clock ticked closer and closer to when everything would change. I started in varsity as a corner back but soon would have big shoes to fill as the team’s quarterback. Not only did this require skill and hard work but the ability and qualities of a leader as well. Ultimately, playing this position helped me acquire traits that would soon be necessary for success. That year was tough for us because the majority of the team consisted of inexperienced players, however the coaches knew I would be the one to lead the
When I was in middle school I thought life was just full of joy and I really did not have
The football season was great despite our record. Tom, a friend of mine from high school, together we had a great time maybe because we were seniors. In the past seasons, we didn’t have as much fun, going to practice was like going for a punishment especially during conditioning where we had to run for hours and do all sots of drills. With a little fun we turned this the other way round and had the best senior football season. During practice me and Tom, who were both wide receivers just kept on telling jokes which the coaches didn’t like so much but they let it go because we also competed against each other in the process, like whenever we run plays, we would see who could do it faster and more agile, we also had to catch the ball. Some times we pulled off one handed catches just to gain more points. That is a monument in my life I would like to relieve. I had so much fun but have you ever realized that a lot of fun just doesn’t last, before we know it, it was the and of the football season and that was if for me and Tom since we were seniors.
Some may ask why is life hard. Life is an amazing thing and we shouldn’t take the greatness of it for granted. Today you are going to hear a story about a young teenagers life that has been hiding stuff for his family. This young boy in the story makes it through the struggle he is going through. This is something we all have to do keep our head up and keep going no matter what.
I no longer played on a team with my best friends since childhood, I was no longer a fullback, and I was no longer a bulldog. I had moved across the street into the town that I had grown up wanting to beat all my life. Now I found myself in a blue uniform playing quarterback with guys I had only met a few weeks prior to our first game. I was a stranger, in the town I had despised growing up, leading a team that I didn’t know. The following year I expected to be better and it was for the most part. However, there was one team on the schedule that I was specifically looking forward to. That game was one of the most hard fought I had ever played in. It was a physical battle, and in the end my team emerged victorious. My new team that
Bonnie the secretary introduced me to my new teacher. As Mrs. Bonnie was leaving the room, my new teacher Mrs. Evaheart introduced me to the class. As I stared at the class I couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed. I wanted to go back to my old school where I had friends, knew almost everyone, a place where I didn’t feel lonesome, a place anywhere but here. As I saw each and every one of my new classmates faces the utter dread that I felt slowly began to fade as I saw a familiar face. Seeing one of my former friends give me a renewed hope that maybe being in this school won’t be so bad after