Personal Narrative: Transitioning Into A Catholic High School

Be Yourself “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” These words by Eleanor Roosevelt mean that you can be who you want to be and people can only make feel ashamed about it if you let them. Her words reflect well on my story because I felt this way my freshmen year of high school. My first year of high school was already nerve-wrecking because I didn’t know anybody so I was trying to make friends. I didn’t want to stand out and be the girl everyone talks about so I stayed silent.

I enrolled in college not knowing what exactly to expect and with many doubts but by taking that gigantic leap out of my comfort zone, my life has changed drastically. In high school, I was never the type of student to strive for A’s or to be on the honor roll. My siblings were the ones who did great in school with minimum effort but I struggled and often became discouraged. I remember vividly telling my mother I was going to drop out in the ninth grade.

So I enrolled in a school, it was supposed to be one of the happiest days of my life but it was not. At the beginning of school year, I did not have any friends and to make it worse, I got bullied. They bullied me on how I dressed especially my accent. Females even males were picking a fight with me. I wanted to tell my mom

During my high school days, I was a really shy person. I didn’t like to talk in class because I was nervous what my classmate will say about my response, I didn’t join anything activities or sports teams and I didn 't have a lot of friends. But I knew it was something I need to overcome sooner or later. During my Sophomore year, I wanted to change who I am, so I decided to join track since I like to run. But if I didn 't join track I wouldn 't be who I am today.

The whole meaning of identity is altered into the the change in one’s personal quality in order to fit everyone else's perception of who they should be. Overall, their identity was never situated by the fact that the characters lacked the understanding of being their own person with their gifted qualities. The reality of the war is a key factor to why the society, school, and families caused the characters to change themselves. They felt the need to fit in because they saw everyone else doing so and that was what they were taught to do by the school’s main goal. A Separate Peace demonstrated the characters struggle of dealing with the change of themselves and how they had this confusion of who they really are.

“Why didn’t you pay it before?” “ I was pretty sick about that. I waited too long to help another man”(6). This ending was not expected in the beginning, however there was a little of foreshadowing towards it. One example of it is when the teacher made a rude comment and no one stood up for him just a few tears from his crush.

Nothing could have prepared me for how rigorous the practices were. I suddenly felt extremely inferior and disappointed that I could not even make it through the warm ups let alone the actual practice. Team overall was very friendly but the upperclassmen

And us not seeing our name on the list pushed us away from the sport and not wanting to

In my life, there have many instances where I have been forced to adapt to different cultures, but the biggest culture shock by far was switching from Catholic school to public school. It could not have been any more different. The size, the people, the town, the curriculum – everything was different. It was such a different environment from what I was used to, but I soon grew to love it. I attended a small Catholic School in from kindergarten to fifth grade.

a chorus of girls calling my name I turned... "Starboy"... I could have never admitted it, but I was thrilled!"(pg.77). In this case, Leo conforming would be a positive also negative thing to do because he should support Stargirl however by doing that he is leaving his whole school furthermore his friends on a cliff edge, one small mistake and Leo will lose them. By having Leo conform but love Stargirl at the same time will generate numerous obstacles throughout the novel making this much difficult for him than it already is.

When I joined FFA, in seventh grade, speaking events, such as Creed Speaking, amazed me; I wanted to compete in one and be one of those confident competitors. I tried out for the Creed Contest in eighth grade but did not qualify

Scared to bring home failing grade, but even more scared to be viewed as the new girl who couldn’t hold her own, I remained silent. My freshman year I failed a Spanish quiz. I wanted to get up and tell my teacher that I had never heard of the subjunctive tense before and despite my quiz grade, I deserved to be in the class he so adamantly suggested that I switch out of. But I didn’t.

During high school Deresiwicz would agree that I lacked “learn to live with risk” quality. As a high school student wanted to do well to get into a prestigious college risk never really appealed to me. Taking a class that would most likely not get me the grade I wanted was practically academic suicide. However, now more so than ever as a college student Deresiwicz words hold merit. Deresiwicz recalls the moment he blew a test for the first time and later goes on to state, “I walked out feeling like I no longer knew who

The next day I said sorry to everyone I’ve done wrong I even said sorry to Brendon and Morgan which took a lot to do. Finally we’re all friends again I was a little happier than before. Then I found out morgan was talking about me which really isn’t worth it. This is towards the end of the drama but I had to tell her once and for all to stop. So one day she was just keep mumbling stuff about me

GSA at western had changed me a lot during freshman year. They helped me come out of myself. I 'm bisexual. My parents nor my family knows since they are really religious but I know one day I 'm going to come out just like I did with my friends I know it isn 't the same