Personal Narrative: My Journey To The Soccer Team

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When I was in the 8th grade I started to hang out with the wrong crowed. When I decided that I need to change my ways it was too late. My so called friends all turned on me and started to bully me. I kept telling myself things would be so much easier if I would take the blame, but I didn’t want to be punished for something that I had no involvement in. On a Friday night my friend and I were skateboarding down some neighborhoods and in the far distance there was a truck with loads of grocery bags from H-E-B. My friends saw a bottle of SKY vodka and decided to take it. I told him to put back and he refused and told me to chill out. He stared to open the bottle and drink from it, thinking he was cool he told me to take a picture. Then out of nowhere the owner came out and took
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When I had specifically told him to leave it. None of my friends wanted to talk to me they all started to name call me. The only thing that kept me from giving in to apologize for something that I had nothing to do, was the fact that this was not me. I was not a thief and I wasn’t a drinker. So I decided to try out for the soccer team. Making it to the soccer team was the best thing that I had ever done. I had so much going on with practice, soccer games, and practice on Sundays. It was an extremely busy schedule, but I loved it. I made new friends my old friends where no longer existing to me. When I started to hang out with the soccer girls I no longer had to deal with the name calling or all the wrong doing my old friends would do. I hope that my old friends found the right path and no longer doing things that they are not supposed to be doing. If not I wish them the best and hope that they decided to change. Look back, I thank god for giving me all the hope when I couldn’t bear to be at school and for being with me when I felt so alone. I wouldn’t change a single thing because I am more content with myself right now. I’m surrounded with people that

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