For the first five years of elementary school, I attended the small school located at the back of our church’s property. Enrollment ranged from about 10-15 students in 1st through 8th grade. The last three years of my grade school experience were spent attending Lodi Seventh-day Adventist Elementary. This school went from kindergarten to 8th grade and fed into Lodi Academy, so in all, kindergarten through 12th grade! I came from a small, two-room school, and seeing as I was not very accustomed to being with such a large body of students, suddenly becoming immersed in a class with more students than that of my entire old school was definitely intriguing!
There was a lot more competition at this new school, what with extracurricular activities, sports, new academic opportunities, and music. The opportunities were plentiful! There was another girl named Kelly* in my class who saw me as somebody in her way; a rival. Before I came to Lodi, I visited the school during my 5th grade year. The day that I visited, Kelly was stuck to me. Her affable nature and kind disposition were …show more content…
In 8th grade, push came to shove, and the tip of the ice berg was dislodged and cascaded down upon me. Of course, it just so happened that both of us were running for class president. It was a close race, at the end we even had to vote three times in order to find a proper ratio. After I won the presidential race, Kelly’s bitter feelings swelled to a new high and she disliked me even more. She would say rude things about me, eschew me, and even more, but I never let it affect me. She continued with this brazen behavior and one day I just flat out told her that it was childish and immature, yet this did not faze her. She continued to aggressively go out of her way to make my life miserable. If I had acted similarly and fought back, antagonizing her, fighting fire with fire, think of how much worse the situation could have
There was a lot more competition at this new school, what with extracurricular activities, sports, new academic opportunities, and music. The opportunities were plentiful! There was another girl named Kelly* in my class who saw me as somebody in her way; a rival. Before I came to Lodi, I visited the school during my 5th grade year. The day that I visited, Kelly was stuck to me. Her affable nature and kind disposition were …show more content…
In 8th grade, push came to shove, and the tip of the ice berg was dislodged and cascaded down upon me. Of course, it just so happened that both of us were running for class president. It was a close race, at the end we even had to vote three times in order to find a proper ratio. After I won the presidential race, Kelly’s bitter feelings swelled to a new high and she disliked me even more. She would say rude things about me, eschew me, and even more, but I never let it affect me. She continued with this brazen behavior and one day I just flat out told her that it was childish and immature, yet this did not faze her. She continued to aggressively go out of her way to make my life miserable. If I had acted similarly and fought back, antagonizing her, fighting fire with fire, think of how much worse the situation could have