Liturgical year

I started out my first year playing first chair in the concert band which was the lower ranking band. The next year I get last trombone in the symphonic band. I decided to come back for one final year and try to get into the band for the best of the bests, the wind ensemble. “Kerrigan Catlin, are you ready?”,Dr. Hartman says in a soft voice. I walk in. He asked me how I have been and he expressed how nice it was to see me again for my last year at CYM. I finish my last audition and…

Seventh grade has been a mix of amazing and crazy. You might be wondering why I don’t have a chapter for sixth grade. In fifth grade, I had expressed how I felt bored and that school work was too easy. My mother took this into account. She talked about it at conferences with my fifth grade homebase, Mrs. Breza. Then, my mom introduced the idea of skipping a grade. I knew there had been students that have skipped before me, but I never thought of the idea for myself. The school was hesitant to…

for helping me with my first year of middle school. Although, there were some downfalls, most of which were my fault. I left a banana in my locker for 3 weeks, and, as you might of predicted, the results did not turn out that well. The smell stayed clear on my notebook for 3 years, and it even smells vaguely like that now (don’t ask me how I know). Basically, my first year of middle school was very eventful, and to my opinion, was one of my most favorite school years I have ever experienced.…

go outside and play with my friends and on top of that the house we were living in was right next to a park. But instead of going outside and playing with friends I was trapped inside having to read a book I didn’t even want to read. Also in those years I started to not like writing because I just hate to write especially when you have to read an article and write about it or answer questions because in my mind I don’t see why we have to do it. Why does what I think about that matter and why do…

Near the end of my sophomore year of high school, I took a leap of faith and applied to join a dental technologies class at Normandy High School. Like most students, I didn't know what I wanted to go to college for, but in our school’s cafeteria, there was a stand with “DENTAL” written across it. Just before this day, I watched “The Little Shop of Horrors,” and in this play, There’s a song about being a dentist. With that song fresh in my mind, and nothing to lose, I signed up. When I found out…

Seventh grade, my second year now at what I thought to be the worst school in the world. On back to school night I met a man who would change my perspective on life completely, that man being Brandon Lilly. Henry Adams once said “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” At a mere five-foot four he appeared to be a kid minus the burly lumberjack beard that he possessed. I remember being skeptical at first because I had never had a male teacher before. All of my…

The first time I encountered writing and reading and generally enjoyed the idea of both was around my early years in elementary school. I was one of those kids that hung out in the library and just read for the fun of gaining knowledge on things I didn’t know or thought about. Growing up In Adelphi, Maryland my grandmother would take me to the local library every two weeks so, I was always occupied by reading.I learned how to check in and out books and was privileged enough to have my own…

It all began in preschool, because I was curious how things worked, and I played with other kids. Like normal. The teachers suggested I was autistic. That I was the fancy “R-word”. This set the table for my school years. A good clean start. The real crime though is that they never told me. They let me figure out my “disability” on my own. I do not have autism. I wish I could look at my records to see the actual words they used for me. I wonder if it still says that about me. If it does, I’ll…

History has always been a big part of my life. I remember in first grade pouring all of my affections onto the historical fiction American girl doll books in the elementary school library and imagining myself as a Swedish immigrant in 1854, or as a young patriot in 1774. During second and third grade I devoted my free time to reading about the Civil War and the Spanish explorers that conquested through my native Florida. In fourth grade I remember leaping through a native american pottery…

Carnaval takes place around the Catholics’ time of lent. During carnaval, people dress up and crowd the streets in costumes. This is a time for people to feel freer than they would the rest of the year. Carnaval is celebrated before lent officially starts because the eating and drinking gets out of hand during the parties and festivities. The basis of the celebration can be traced back to Roman celebration and to Europe in the middle ages. Carnaval is largely celebrated in Spain, during…