Middle School Journey

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There are many memories that I have made in middle school. One that I probably will not forget about is when we went to Topeka and Mrs. Simmons, Mrs. Fox, and Mrs. Patterson played a prank on us. We were on our way back home and Mrs. Simmons said “I need to speak with the girls who stayed in room 211 when we get to Dodge City please”. Jessica S, Bekah, Mara, and I looked at each other and we were wondering what they would want to talk to us about? I was thinking that we probably broke something or left something behind, but then I got to thinking and if we did leaving something behind they would have told us, and if we were to have broken something I was pretty sure that you would have already gotten in trouble. I was the only one who was not …show more content…
Getting hurt and having to sit out for the rest of the basketball season really did hurt me. I remember when I got home and my mom told me what the doctor said about my MRI, I ran to my room and cried for hours. I never thought that I would have to have surgery. I tried to stay strong, when I told coach I thought I let the whole entire team down. But on January 26, 2015 at 6:00 a.m I was showed up to the surgery place with a brave face, and got ready for surgery. I was not as scared as I thought as I going to be. I was actually relaxed because I was just thinking positive, like after my surgery and after all the therapy I would be able to play again and I would be back as new! I think the first couple of weeks were pretty rough, because of how much school I missed and with the pain and therapy, I kind of was under a lot pressure on trying to finish my assignments and everything. But once again on January 26, 2016 I had surgery on my other knee! I could not just have one knee with scars! So now both of my knees have battle scars. On my left knee I tore my ACL and meniscus just like the other but on my right one I tore both of my meniscuses and only one on my left. So the second time around I kind of already knew what the routine would be so I just went with the flow. I really don’t have any bad memories from middle school, nothing really major I might

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