Why Is 8th Grade Important To Me

As our lives go on we often remember the past. Now that Eighth grade is ending I feel like it just started. Two years ago from now I felt sick to my stomach thinking of coming to junior high and growing up. I then found out that I would be attending a school that I had only known 3 people that go there because of new house boundaries. It crushed me to not be able to go to the same school as the kids I had been with since kindergarten. As I arrived I felt like a grain of rice in this big school. I realized that the kids around me were going through the same thing. I experienced changing out for P.E., having 8 periods, opening my locker, and things like that weren’t as horrible as I had made it out to be. My 6th grade teacher had prepared me for 7th grade a huge amount. So seventh grade flew by. Eighth grade was a little bit more of a challenge. I pushed myself all around to be a better …show more content…
Not necessarily because of the school but because of the things I have accomplished. I am most proud of not knowing hardly anyone in the beginning of these past two years and now I am the class president and surround myself with the best people possible for me now. I am proud of myself for choosing the best paths for me and that have led me to where I am today. Most of all, I am proud of myself for always being myself and never trying to be someone that I am not. Respect is always earned and and fear is given. Many teachers make their students but as I said in my previous paragraphs, Mr. Heffernan, Mrs.Dixon, and also Mrs. Eyraud have always known how to achieve respect from many individuals. Not through fear, but by giving an equal amount of respect back to students that is admirable. Mr.Heffernan, Mrs.Dixon, and Mrs.Eyraud were born to touch the lives of not only mine but the students of the Panama Buena Vista Union School District and I am honored to have been impacted by their