Semester+Final

When your younger, say if first grade or so, you are waiting for the day when your at the top, in fifth grade. Once you finish elementary school, however, you are just at the bottom again, in middle school. You feel the same thing in wanting to be at the top. when you reach eighth grade and go into your freshman year of high school, you have the same feeling. It is a continues rise to the top, and you, some how some way, will always end up back at the bottom. This is how life is and I have found that out, as I have been through this many times in my short fourteen years of life. I have many goals I would like to achieve and I get that it may take awhile for that to happen. It’s, if you will, baby steps to the top and I would like to tell you what I have done in those small steps I have taken in my first semester and a freshman here at Foothill.

Starting off in a new environment, say school for example, you don’t really know what to expect in things like your classes. As you go through the year, you grow more accustom to them. I, like I’m sure most of the freshmen here have, noticed a change in how I look at my classes now than I did on the first days of high school. Your classes seem like they wouldn’t be a lot of work and like it’s is going to fly by without trouble, well at lest that’s what I though. I soon found out in these two quarters, it goes by very fast, but it comes to so struggles along the way. Things such as exams and the ninth grade project are placed in these struggles.

Being a perfectionist at school makes me work harder in my classes. It I fall below a B I feel like I could do better, so I push myself. The only class I allow my grade to drop in is Honors Geometry, and even then I don’t let it fall below a B. I only allow this because I know my GPA will be the same as if I was in a regular math class rather than honors. I have settled in and am enjoying my classes, whether it is dance or English. The class I believe I have improved most in is Spanish. At the beginning of the year I could only say a few things in Spanish, but now I can tell whole stories in it. All my other classes are fun and are fairly easy, but the class I have the most fun learning things is English. Some people may think it’s boring that we have to read books and write essays all the time, but if you look at it in the way that if we had a boring teacher, unlike Mr. Geib, and had to answer questions out of a text book and take quizzes every day than the class is a piece of heaven.

As I have gone through this year, I have made a lot of new friends. I also, sadly, have lost contact from a lot of my friends in middle school. The say that the friends you make in college are your friends for life. Now that may be true, but I feel that the friends I have now will be to. My friends are the closest things I have to me; some of them know me better than my own family. The friends that are closest to me are Fake Asian, Asian, Dork and Half ‘n Half, or as normal people, that aren’t me call them, Sara, Joanne, Zoltan, and Emma. Although Zoltan and Sara go to Buena and I don’t get to see them but once ever couple of months, I still see them as being my lifelong friends.

Most high school students have a large group of “friends” that they hang out with on day to day bases, but I don’t. I sit with a small group of my friends that I really know, like really now, and vice versa. I don’t really have the time to hang out with my friends outside of school, but when I do, I normally do so with my friends Emma, Joanne, and June. Although I have many more friends than this, I feel they are not like the true friends that I hang out with. Elli, Joel, Sophie, Emma, June and Joanne are my second family and I’m sure that I’m apart of theirs.

My family, like many people, is very important to me. I admit that we are not the most put together family and we fight a lot, but at the end of the day they are still my family and I still love them, no matter how much I want to rip their heads off. My brothers, Jake and Joe, and my sister, Sarah, will always be really close to me, like I always like to say it’s better to fight with each other and let it out than to not say anything to each other at all. I have also learned to appreciate the fact that my parents are divorced, because I can still see both of them whenever I like. I will always love and support my family no matter what, and I know that they will do the same for me.

My extra circulars have both excelled and expanded since the beginning of the year. I have just recently finished a performance in dance called Bad Hair Day, in which I helped choreograph. I have also just auditioned for a play at Fillmore High School called Guides. I know that doing these things will help me reach my goal job in life, to be an actress, but they are also fun. I have met a lot of new people that I most likely wouldn’t meet under any other circumstances. They relate to me and I have found a place to fit in.

In the movie “Forest Gump” Forest Mama always said “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gunna get,” this may be true in some ways, like you don’t know what the next day of your life will be like, but if you measure how hard you work and strive on what you want to do then you can tell how your life will turn out. If you fail now in high school you are most likely to fail at life. What you do in high school, most of the time, determines how the rest of your life plays out. I have started taking the baby steps now rather than later to reach my goal, but I still have a long way to go. It’s all a part of the step latter of life.