School Days

I was sitting at the kitchen table, eating chips and salsa, as I usually did when I get home from school. I was exhausted from a long day of high school. This was last year, when I was still going to public school. My school was in Purcellville, with by car is only 30 minutes away, but on the bus there were other children in other neighborhoods that had to be dropped off first. I was always the last one off the bus because I lived the farthest away, which meant I was always the first one on…

Growing up, I had trouble coming to a realization that one day I was going to have to contribute to the advancement of human society. I always believed that I could continue to live a life where I was dependent of every basic need from my parents and not have to worry about the problems they dealt with. However, the first day of high school changed all of this for me. The moment I walked into the high school on the first day of my freshman year the atmosphere that surrounded me was far different…

It started in freshman year, when I first entered high school I was on the football team. During the season school was all normal and I was just getting used to my schedule. Then it was the last game of the season for football and on the beginning kickoff of the game I was injured. I was able to walk off the field but I knew something was not right. The next day I went to the doctor and he told me I have torn my left ACL. These left me in an ominous place this is the first time in my life I've…

Jian Ping’s School Day Jian Ping had a very compelling story throughout the book, but one of her stories she told the best was about her very extraordinary days at school. Jian didn’t expect to see or do any of the stuff she was put in. There were some challenges she had to face, but it wasn’t without the help of a few people in Jians life. Jian Ping was really excited to become a student. She never saw the inside of the beautiful building she calls school, and for the first time she gets to…

perceived that Durant Oklahoma was monumental on the cattle occupation. My first day of school was intimidating because I didn’t know anyone. I went to the office with my parents and I met Mr. Lowry, he helped me choose my classes, by explaining what each was. Once I knew what each class was, I started to think to myself of all the classes I could engage in. Playing sports was one thing that came across my intellectuality that day. Finally after meditating, cross country was my preferential…

forget, the paper is due next Wednesday!” My 8th period teacher, Mrs. Oakford told to my class and I as we streamed out of the cramped classroom on a Friday. We couldn’t wait to bust out of the schools doors and claim our prize of a short freedom for surviving another busy, exhausting, and slow week of middle school. I rushed to my locker, grabbed everything I would need for the homework due Monday, threw it in my bag and headed down the hall collecting my friends to walk to town to start what I…

I was very nervous because I didn 't know anyone, I didn 't see any of my friends from middle school, the bell rings and first period is about to begin. It was math, Algebra 1 the class was quiet, very quiet no one was talking. No one knew each other, the girl next to me was very shy as well. She didn 't talk, she didn 't look around, and she only…

Bruises, breaks, fractures; all the things that I had seen happen one day in my school. I lived in a good area with a loving mother and a well-funded school, you would think that my High school would be a calm place to learn and grow safely. Sadly, this is untrue, on the first three days of my freshman year there were at least two fights a day. I could not understand, at the time what could have change so much in those I cared about. It could not have been just puberty, because it doesn't change…

years ago to a very cold Thursday morning in January. I was sitting in history class when suddenly something very strange happened; the announcement speakers came on. To most people it would seem like it was a very typical day to day event to listen to announcements; but at my school announcements were rarely ever said. My classroom got completely silent; to the point where you could have heard a pin drop. The words that came next were like an explosion and disbelief fell on all of us. “We…

cousins, all under the age of five, start running around the house in an attempt to escape ski school. Family members begin to file out of their rooms and the standard questions about last night’s snowfall proceed. The young ones start screaming, mostly the one not even twelve months old but also the one almost two. The clanking of boots against cold brick and jackets fill my ears as the rush for ski school starts. The eerie silence fills the room after the last person files out.…