Personal Narrative: My First Time At Trinity Preparatory School

Throughout one’s life they are often faced with challenges when they need to find a way around the problem to the solution. I am certainly not unfamiliar with this feeling. My first time at Trinity Preparatory School came with both a great amount of academic and personal bumps because I went in with unrealistic expectations about what would take place.
It was my sophomore year in high school, I was coming from a sports powerhouse, Winter Park High School, and had more confidence than your average fifteen year old, despite being told earlier that summer that transferring from a public school to a private school would be difficult. Especially since this was not just any private school it was Trinity Preparatory. This is a school that is nationally ranked for their superb educators and college acceptance rates, but that did not scare me. As I was touring the school Sherry Hay informed me that Trinity Prep teachers tend to be college professors, as well, and they treat their high school classes no differently than their college ones. A little frightened I …show more content…
Our first pre-season football game was also during this week, and I could not have been anymore excited. I was the starting corner, as a sophomore, and there was a lot of hype going around the school about some super sophomore who was going to help bring the school to victories, despite the loss of twelve starting seniors in the prior year. Expectations were high, and I was ready for the challenge. While, we ended up losing the game by a last second interception, it still gave the school the hope that it had lost. After about a month I finally started to get settled and quickly realized the class work was becoming increasingly difficult. But I stayed focused and took advantage of all the additional help my teachers were willing to offer, to keep my grades high so I could keep playing