As my best friends, Daniesha, Derrick, Lashantae, and I entered the classroom, we could already sense that we were out of place. Green Team was run by the eighth grade general science teacher, Mr. Lincoln, who wasn’t the biggest fan of my friends, or in his words “you need friends just as great of a student as you”. Daniesha, Derrick, and Lashantae weren’t the type of people I expected to become so close to, they accepted D’s on their report cards, they cursed, and bullied our classmates for fun. Despite all of these things, they lived in my neighborhood and found me to be funny (in a cheesy way), so I guess I stuck around because I enjoyed being accepted for something I always felt awkward about. With Mr. Lincoln as the facilitator of Green
