The beginning of 10th grade is an exciting time for any student. You’re a grade closer to graduating and you’re no longer the new group to the school, right? Not in Hobbs, Nm. I have never lived in a town where 9th-grade freshman have a totally separate school until I moved here. So when the time came and freshman school finished I felt like I was going to be a freshman all over again my sophomore year. I dreaded having to introduce myself to the whole class like most teachers make you do on the first day of school to become familiar with the rest of your peers. Though most kids have different fears on the first day everyone hides those feelings with a smile and eventually they don’t get nervous about school. I, on the other hand, have always had a hard time with school, but then I walked into my last class of the day. Mrs. Turner was my 10th grade English teacher and was my safe haven while I was at Hobbs high for the next three years.
Mrs. Turner was not like most teachers I have had during my school years. She approached her students as if we were adults not like we were little kids. In her classroom, everyone had a voice not just the teacher at the …show more content…
What I wish I would have done back then was realize school is much more important than I thought. It has a big impact on the type of person you will later be. The people you choose to surround yourself with can very much be in your life years later. The school memories you have will always be bittersweet. It is how you choose to apply yourself later on past school and putting what you learned to good use. The choices you make will stay with you forever. I don’t think I would choose to do it any different way. I have just learned to apply my lessons learned to my life now. I give a lot of credit to my high school years, peers, and my
Mrs. Turner was not like most teachers I have had during my school years. She approached her students as if we were adults not like we were little kids. In her classroom, everyone had a voice not just the teacher at the …show more content…
What I wish I would have done back then was realize school is much more important than I thought. It has a big impact on the type of person you will later be. The people you choose to surround yourself with can very much be in your life years later. The school memories you have will always be bittersweet. It is how you choose to apply yourself later on past school and putting what you learned to good use. The choices you make will stay with you forever. I don’t think I would choose to do it any different way. I have just learned to apply my lessons learned to my life now. I give a lot of credit to my high school years, peers, and my