High School Experience

I’m sure that many high school students hear from their siblings or friends that by the end of senior year they would have a certain group to determine as his friends. I wanted to expect companionship because I had 4 years of high school to progress through. My bold brother unwillingly kept telling me all his stories. Some stories being sitting on his friend’s car in the night sky at a drive-in theater, or at a restaurant having a satisfying meal with his friends or just simply hanging out at one’s house. He would tell me that those friends were the group he would be with even after graduating high school. In the end I would hope that I would have friends that would have good chemistry between all of us, but I thought of myself as just a shy kid.

It was the beginning of September just before autumn at my small school Ralph R. McKee Career and Technical High School. Scared and nervous for my life, getting to my first class I was anxious. I was running around, in and out of the guidance counselor’s office, simply just trying to find the correct room to be in. Once I got settled in and everything, I had scanned the multiple classes I had and the classrooms. As I was going in and out classrooms, I would just follow my classmates from the previous classes so I don’t look like the cliche freshman, aimlessly wandering around looking for my next class. As days passed, I knew only one of the classmates there since she was from my catholic school. I focused on myself, still being sheepish just to keep myself stable and not stressed.

A month or two later, something even worse happened. My whole schedule had changed. New classes meant new classmates, I had become even more quiet and struggling a bit since I was put into honors classes then. As I retained my composure, again I was following what I did before to not go off course from everyone else in my class. Despite all the group classwork we did, eventually I have met most people in my classes.