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Mo-Maurice Gentry

Sanchez

English 9(2)

6/6/16

What A Year What A Year

What a year it was; how I moved to a new school and my life completely changed. The

high school is overwhelming with teachers pressuring the students. The people are friendly and I

have made a enormous amount of friends. Besides the pressure, the parties are phenomenal for a

stress reliever. For the first year of high school the experience was enlightening.

The pressure of high school is different from middle school or any other schools before.

The organization to keep up with every assignment, test, or project is stressful enough. While the

teachers handed an assignment last week there's a new paper due for two different classes this

week. To procrastination isn’t very helpful either because then there are three projects due for

different classes on the same day and not one project is started. To do the assignment before the

last day is the key to success because then it’s already done without the stress and pressure. The

stress and pressure are shown on every student when they wake up in the morning, but that

doesn’t stop until graduation.

While stressing over assignments some of the other students can relate to what happened.

At the beginning of the year I knew nobody, but at the end I know half of the school. To create

friends I had to find new friends. There are hundreds of people who became friends after just

laughing with me. Coming to a new school I did not think I would make as many friends as I did.

I went to sport events and talked to as many people as I could. The next week the same people I
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met at the games started to talk to me in school. Learning everyone's name was the hardest part

about moving into a new school. There are many friends I created during the school year.

Throughout the school year my new friends invited me to parties. The first party I went to

was a bonfire with a lot of people I did not know. One of the winter parties I went to was a ugly

christmas sweater party. The party was in a barn in the middle of december but, there was no

heat. The last party I went to involved night swimming and I forgot how to swim. At all of the

parties I continued to meet new people. While I met new people they always invited me back or

to new parties. The parties changed my life from doing nothing to parties every weekend.

This year completely changed my life from past years. The workload and stress of high

school is overwhelming compared to middle school. Meeting new friends helps the stress

become not so stressful when someone is assisting in the work. The the excitement of parties

were by far the best part of the year because of the foolishness that happened. For the first year

of high school the experience was outrageously the best part of my life, I cannot wait until the

summer.