Personal Narrative: My Transition From Middle School To High School

As a student at Mountain Heritage High School, I began weighing my options for what I want to do with my life and what it would take to get the education to make that happen. My transition from Middle School to High School has been the biggest challenge I have had to overcome in the past years of my life. From my fourth grade year to my ninth I played the game of football and enjoyed every second of it. I was a defensive linebacker and started every game and really was leaning toward a scholarship to play for some college; however, ever since I was five years old, I played the mandolin and took lessons every Friday after school. I was not really into the mandolin, but my mother encouraged me to keep playing, even though I dreaded every single practice and

My guitar teacher came in, gave us a sheet of music, and said start working on it. I had no idea how to read music, so I sat down with the guitar and started playing around with it. All the other kids who could read music played the song. I had no idea how to play it, and the teacher said that by the end of the day that how well that I played the song would determine my grade. I sat there upset, because I knew I could not play the song. So I just started listening to the other kids play the song, and realized I could make the same notes with my guitar. Little did I know that I was training my ear to hear and understand music. Every day was the same thing. I would listen to them and play what I heard. My teacher never found out what I was doing until the end of the class when she asked me the question “How are you playing the songs so well?” I just said I do not know. She was astonished by my answer and started questioning me until she figured out what I was doing. At the end of our conversation, she signed me up for the same class the next semester. I learned a lot of songs and became very interested in it. Suddenly, I started to love