Waking Up In High School

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Many teenagers don’t know how their early school years will effect their future. Today, the average trash man must have at least a high school education and I'm pretty sure many want to be more than a trash man. These were the things I neglected to think about my 7th grade year until I almost failed. "It doesn’t matter where you are, you are no where compared to where you can go."-Bob Proctor

In elementary school I was always an honor role student, I loved waking up in the morning, greeting my teachers, singing and dancing with my peers and my favorite part about that time was nap time. It was when I moved to Raleigh, North Carolina that I began to have a different look on school. When I moved it was the end of 5th grade I was shy and …show more content…

I always told myself that one day I would be doing hair for the most popular people and everyone would want me to be their hairstylist. Well one day over the summer I decided to have my hair shaved on one side and I curled the other. When I went to walk to the store from my mothers house a girl named Mariah stopped and told me how much she loved my hair. I couldn’t believe it! We started talking and we found out we lived across the road from each other. Mariah and I didn’t become close friends then but, we greeted each other from time to time. On July 4th my mother had a cookout and I invited Mariah to see what type of person she was and she was someone I thought I could be cool with. Eventually, Mariah and I we best friends. We went thru a whole school year of being close but, we soon started to bring the bad out in each other. The summer of 6th going to 7th grade I began sneaking out the house to go hang with Mariah and some other acquaintances. Everyone knew my love for …show more content…

Friends will not get you far in life, you will. so, I began to fall in love with school and fell back from hanging out. I never wanted to feel that feeling I felt when I read that letter and saw my grades again. I wanted the graduate high school and make something out of myself . I moved in 8th grade to come to my hometown in Georgetown, SC and have a fresh start. It seemed that when I came back all of my old morals and goals came back as well, I had to finish school the right way. From 8th grade to now, the 11th, I think that I have been doing good. I haven't been skipping school or from my house and I'm also an early graduate. I feel that me getting caught really helped me get my mind together and without that who knows where would I be

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