Personal Narrative: Being The New Kid At School

Being the new kid at school is an experience many can relate to. It is extremely difficult to find your way in a crowd of people who have already found their own. So in my first year at school I was searching for a way to fit or get more connected with my new community. The way I found was not a path anyone else would have chosen for me nor was it one that many would completely understand. Basketball was what brought me closer to my school and helped me get involved my first year at Calhoun Christian School. Being a small K-12 private school, we were allowed to have seventh graders on the varsity basketball team. This meant I would be playing with high school seniors twice my size out on the court, but that never seemed to sway me.
I remember my very first basketball practice, which my mother nearly refused to let me go to on the stance that I would most likely get seriously injured because of my small size and lack of experience. There were no other seventh graders on the team beside myself and only two eighth graders. The coach made us run and do drills and learn plays that I did not understand; I think he was pretty surprised that I even came back the next day. For reasons unbeknownst to even myself I loved every bit of it, even though I was not strong …show more content…
It was frustrating to put so much effort and time into something without seeing the results that I wanted. Before every game I would be in the gym shooting baskets until the official warm-ups actually started, and I was at every practice, never giving up, but it just never seemed to be enough. That is, until my junior year, when things finally began to click in my mind. I could fully understand the plays and see when they should be used and why, I became one of the strongest defensive players on the team, and I could even shoot some three-pointers every