During my nine years of elementary and middle school, I attended a small charter school with less than one hundred fifty students total K-8. I had most of the same classmates year after year, and the same outdoor school campus and teachers. With the exception of a few students who came and went, most of us were together through eighth grade. In those nine years, I made friends with these classmates and had a small school experience. We spent time playing in the creeks and using the many outdoor classrooms. So when my class of 13 graduated eighth grade, we had to move on to a bigger and different school. The problem was that I knew few people outside of my class and did not know what high school was going to be like. Because of this trepidation,
