Personal Narrative: Coming Into High School

Coming into high school for the first time was a huge transition. When in middle school, the eighth graders were the top of the school. We were the ones that all of the younger students looked up to. We got the most playing times in the sports that we played. The teachers expected us to know all of the rules and such at the school. We knew that we were moving on to bigger and better things but once we hit the high school, the tables turned. One our first day as freshman, the class of 2016 got the school to themselves.There were no sophomores, juniors or seniors present that day. This gave us an opportunity to get a feel for the newer and larger school that we would have to get used to for the next four years. At the end of every hallway there was a teacher with a welcoming smile. And every other student had the same thoughts as I that day. Some of my classes had people who I had known in middle school and some were full of new faces. For lunch we …show more content…
Real life is nothing like the false accusations. Besides the select few boys hat paid attention to the younger girls because they believed that they would be “easy,” the upperclassmen paid us no attention on a day to day basis. The one thing they did know though was who was new and who wasn’t by the recognition of faces. It was not until I began to participate in extracurricular activities that I met and formed relationships with any of the older kids in the school.
I decided that I would continue running track in high school. This was my key to meeting new people and getting more friends. The track team at first was a little awkward. The other teammates had to get a feel for the type of people that we were. After that process, the team almost became one huge family. In my experience, a team full of girls will not always be perfect, we have our days but at the end of it all we all joined back together