When I got to middle school, it’s like my whole world was flipped upside down. I went through several drastic stages throughout my adolescent phase. Some were good and some were bad. I don’t regret any of it because my pass made me who I am today. Newman and Newman (2012), broke down the different phases that adolescents undergo. Myself personally, I experience several of the phases hands on. In 2012, Newman and Newman established the developmental tasks that female undergo. They describe the physical changes a girls go through in her early adolescence years. In defense, when I was in six grade, 12 years old to be exact, I officially hit puberty. I was feeling ill after eating lunch one day. Later that day, during sixth period, I jumped up out of my seat and ran down the hall. Halfway up there, I felt the yellow walls closing in on me. Everything insight began to appear blurry. One of my classmates was coming down the hall and she started calling my name. When she got to me she shook me and I blanked out. The pain I was feeling, was a pain I never in my life felt. I couldn’t bear
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After school, I would go walking with my friends and we will smoke before I go to practice. It made me lazy, and I wanted to stop cheering, but my mama wouldn’t let me. One day I was talking to my best friend, Phat, and she told me I needed to stop because that wasn’t me. I was trying to pressure her into doing it, but she didn’t go for it at first. I eventually stopped, but she started. I feel guilty still to this day because she is still smoking. Smoking is the reason why she isn’t writing this paper with me, but that another story. Consequently, my time in high school was quite a game change for me. On the bright side, the friends I started out with in the beginning slowly branched off. Newman and Newman (2012) described this change as
After school, I would go walking with my friends and we will smoke before I go to practice. It made me lazy, and I wanted to stop cheering, but my mama wouldn’t let me. One day I was talking to my best friend, Phat, and she told me I needed to stop because that wasn’t me. I was trying to pressure her into doing it, but she didn’t go for it at first. I eventually stopped, but she started. I feel guilty still to this day because she is still smoking. Smoking is the reason why she isn’t writing this paper with me, but that another story. Consequently, my time in high school was quite a game change for me. On the bright side, the friends I started out with in the beginning slowly branched off. Newman and Newman (2012) described this change as