Essay About High School Freshman

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Being a freshman in high school is extremely hard , especially when all your friends went to a different high school. Here I am at Rocky River High eating lunch alone, shy to talk to anyone, and just being “a loner “ people would describe me. Meanwhile at Butler High all my friends are happy reunite with one another , have class and lunch together. The feeling of being alone sucked. A couple weeks into school they had volleyball tryouts. I decided to go since I knew how to play. Tryouts lasted for about a week after school, my bed was my best friend every night. I took tryouts very serious because this was going to allow me to make friends that has the same intrest as me. Next following week the coach sent out an email on who made the team , my bones were …show more content…
Knowing that I woke up every morning at 5:30am to take my mom to work , then take my nephew to school, and then take myself to school. I would stay awake during every period, make sure all my work is completed and passed my test to keep my grades up. At 2:15 leave school pick everyone up again do my homework while waiting on my mom . I had to be to work at 5pm til 10pm, go home study and sleep at 12am or later and start the day all over again . I wouldn 't have been able to do that if Amir didn 't push myself and believed in me . Walking across that staged with my cord around my gown and having two tassels, I thank him . Without him I would be still in school riding the big yellow school bus, thinking it 's cool to have a big circle and not having dreams. I’m happy that he pushed me to become a person to be successful and to have a small group of friends with the same dream. Look at me now have a car thats paid off, own insurance, love working,and seventeen in college starting her career. It’s amazing.
Amir brought out the best in me . He taught me to never give up and to keep pushing yourself to success because the end result will be worth

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