There was a time in my life where it was a bad time, but, it was also a good time. I was trying to play games at my old school, Roosevelt Junior High School. I got caught, and what came with it, is troubling . When I got Home my Mom and Dad greeted me with a bunch of things, saying I shouldn’t be doing that, and this and that, but, what also came with it is, my grades dropped, it was horrible, I just couldn’t keep up with all my homework. my teachers started to tell me that I need to pull up, or I wasn’t going to graduate 8th grade. So, during my last few weeks, like five, to like, 6, I buckled down and got everything I needed to get done, done. All my homework, all my other assignments, you name it from my class, I got it done. So, when I
One time I came across failure. It all started when playing in a baseball game for Serra High School. Up to that game we had been undefeated in league play. As the game moved along it got more and more intense. Every batter and runner on base you could tell both teams were completely focused on winning that game.
The balloons are out, the flowers are in bloom, I smell summer. I smell a summer like no other. Not because the groundhog came out early this year, or because I was one year older, but because I was a graduate, from Gilkey International middle school (finally). Sophie comes up to me yelling, super excited for the night ahead, graduation. As we rehearse our ceremony, in our high inched heels and dainty fake eyelashes Charlie runs up behind us screaming in our ear jumping us out of our own skin.
Freshman year came along and I wanted to attend Sullivan High School. I wanted to come back to my hometown, I was just missing the people I started it all out with in the beginning. My dad and I had all of the paperwork finished already to go for me to attend Sullivan High School in August, but my mom refused and wouldn’t budge to let me go. She didn’t want me going to Sullivan, she wanted me to stay with all of my new friends I had made at Owensville. She thought my best bet would be to stay and proceed to go to OHS.
When it comes to sports my family has many ties to Middletown High School South. In the Going as far back as the 1980’s when my Dad attended the same high school. He was a standout wrestler for the team and was given multiple scholarships to wrestle in college. My family name is everywhere within the trophy rooms and walls of Middletown South. I am the youngest of three children with two older sisters coming through high school before me.
Roosevelt High School located in Johnstown, Colorado a small town. Here we are very prideful of our "old school"; literally we have an old school that is over populated. Well it’s the details that paint the perfect picture, I 've throughout my four-years have enjoyed every moment! It 's shaped the man I am today, when I started my first day freshmen year I didn 't know what to expect. I went with the flow of RHS, which to me was doing what my buddies did.
Waves of nausea and dread swept over me as I contemplated the true extent of my failure to convince my parents. After working for three long years toward the exalted senior year, I was stripped of my illustrious power as a reigning senior in one horrifying instant. I would not be the aloof, superior by default senior; I would be the nervous, disoriented new kid with no friends and no idea where my next class was. In a few short weeks, everything in our house would be packed up, as would my life in
February sixth was the day of my last middle school game. We were playing our rivals , Ledford middle school. The first time we played them we only lost by two points. The first five starters for Ledford and our first five including myself were all standing at half court for tip off. The ref. threw the ball up and Gillian tipped it back to me.
In 7th grade, I transferred from Bryan Middle school to Visitation Catholic School and there was not enough room in the accelerated math program, which ultimately set me behind. In high school, I found myself bored in math and knew I needed to challenge myself, so I ended up setting up a meeting with the math department head and we discussed my options. Sophomore year, I ended up taking two math classes, which was not easy; double the test, quizzes and lessons! However, by taking two math classes, I was able to get myself into a higher math class which ultimately was my goal, and achieving it was an amazing feeling.
I was in 6th grade and at the end of the year there wasn't an honor roll assembly and my parents didn't think I got on the honor roll. “Cameron? Why didn’t you get on the honor roll,” Mom said “You said you would get honor roll because you got a seven at the end of the year Project?!!” “I don't know I'll ask when I get into seventh grade.” Cameron Said After losing so much over that summer, I was building up anticipation and when it was about mid summer
My Collapse and Restitution When people see me walking through the halls of school, or walking down the street they may see me as an underachiever, or even a slacker; if they had seen me last year or the year before perhaps they would have been right. My Freshman and Sophomore year I struggled to pass many of my classes. I had begun to give up on anything school related for the purpose of "enjoying my youth while I still could". Back in November of my Freshman year my Uncle Gary passed away suddenly of a heart attack which made me begin to realize the importance of living a full life and doing what is important to you. To tell the truth, I despise the idea of becoming someone who works in an office for the entirety of their life in a dead
It was a pivotal point in my development to adolescence. Abruptly, my grades began to fall lower than my usual standards. Previous achievements I had seemed meaningless now, in comparison to my peers. My competency seemed consistently questioned, especially in this competitive standing. It felt as thought I was silently drowning underneath the schoolwork, and more importantly, the feeling that I was not
I turned to see my teacher’s mildly concerned face. I choked back sobs and nodded. I just wanted to keep going, and carry on with the mind numbing routine of school. I knew if I stopped I would break down. But no one moved fast enough in the hallway and the trapped feeling flooded back into my soul again.
Like the rest of the crowd, I stopped turning in my homework in social studies. I had never gotten an F in a class before, so when I checked my grades that night I had a panic attack. I guess I knew if I didn’t turn in my homework, I might flunk, but that had never happened
My first week of eighth grade turned into a rough start after the most precious person in my life, vanished before my eyes. Around summer of 2009, it was only the second day of school. It was a pretty sticky and steamy day outside. While I was getting ready for school, my mom got a call from one of my aunts. “You’re not going to school today.”
I was expecting eighth grade to be exactly like seventh, just better. However, I was wrong. Two weeks into the school year, my mom came into my room wanting to talk to me; I was annoyed because a show I wanted to watch was about to come on, but I let her come in anyways. I wasn’t expecting what she would say next because I never expected to move until I was in college. The only thing I remember saying was that I hated my mom, yelling that in her face, and I have beat myself up about it ever since, but I didn’t know what to say.