My name is Liberty I am 16 years old and attend West Adams Preparatory High School. I am currently in 11th grade and have gone through many schools during my academic life. I didn’t attend pre-kinder for the reason that my father thought me being taught social skills was a waste of time. So I never really experienced making cookies, coloring, speaking or socializing with other kids of my age till kindergarten. I attended kindergarten at Lenicia.B Weemes Elementary located at 1260 West 36th Place, Los Angeles, CA. but then later moved to Vermont Avenue Elementary School located at 1435 West 27th Street, Los Angeles, CA to finish grade 1-5. For my junior high experience I walked the halls of James A. Foshay Learning Center located at 3751 South Harvard Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA. Now I am currently attending West Adams Preparatory High School located at 1500 West Washington Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA where I am a junior, I only have a year left.
I remember the first time I went to kindergarten; I was really excited that morning. Yes I know you may be wondering what kind of kid wants to go to school especially a small one. But see I always liked reading or writing, it amazed me seeing my sister do such complex problems while I had to sit down and play with insignificant toys and other things. When I got there the first day of school to Weeme’s it wasn’t what I had expected, there were kids crying everywhere with their parents. So I started to panic, was this what every school was like kids whining to their parent to take them back home? My father sat me in a seat and said to stay their till he came for me and follow the teachers instructions I knew not to question him so I sat down even though I was scared with all the crying children around me. My mother told me to make friends and talk to the girls sitting next to me whose eyes were faces were super red from crying and screaming. I remember me telling them that everything was going to be okay and that it was going to be super fun, like the shows Sesame Street and Barney. That didn’t work much but once things settled down the class was having lots fun, I can’t really remember the lesson we did but I remember no one was crying any more and the following week the kids got used to the routine.
For elementary it was a whole different thing I was actually nervous to go into 1st grade, my sister had told me we would meet older kids in this grade so of course I got scared. But I really panicked over nothing things were fine throughout my elementary years I remember doing a lot of things such as Halloween one of my favorite holidays. Everyone dressed up and we had a mini parade inviting the parent over to come see all the children’s costumes. My school offered a really good program which was chorus and I was in it, every Friday I would head to the auditorium and would practice singing for the school in the upcoming events. I was a play leader who is someone that watches over the smaller kids like grade 1-3rd while I was a 5th grader. I sometimes wish I could go back and stay in elementary because these years in my life were really simple and I enjoyed them. Everyone got along with everyone; no one cared about what you wore, or who you were friends with. I always dreaded graduation I didn’t want to leave my friends but eventually I did and we all grew up and headed to middle school.
My first day of middle school was one of the most scariest moments in my life I really didn’t know what to expect all I knew that this time I was going have more then one class and I was going to have to find it on my own. The bigger middle school or sometimes high school students, my school was K-12, would always yell mean remarks to me and my peer such as scrubs. They would always tease us on how small we were and utterly lost. So I wouldn’t really say my 6th grade year was a good one although I did make friends because everyone was so shy and small it was easy to make friends, but they through out middle school we started to grow up and become more confident in our selves. Your social life was more important then your educational one, everything depended on what you were wearing or who you hanged out with. I think this is at the point of my life were I realized where I was becoming big already and was stuck with a bunch of people who were really superficial. But I mean I can’t complain I did meet some pretty awesome people that I will remember for the rest of my life.
When I entered high school I was a bit more prepared I knew we would have multiple classes and well I had to act more mature in a way. But ill admit when I was a freshman at West Adams I was still stuck in middle school mode depending on my friends to help me out in whatever I needed. In the beginning of 10th grade I started realizing it wasn’t always going to be that way if I wanted or needed something I had to find out a way to do it I was becoming more independent. Now that I am in 11th grade I realize how my responsibility has increased and I find myself thinking more about my future and what I want to do in life. Its not fun and games anymore I don’t only have to act mature I need to act mature to get through with my education. The transition for middle school to high school was a big one, teachers don’t guide you as much as they used to when you’re small. You learn self discipline, and I still have one more year to go and many more new things to learn that will help me better myself not only right now but in the future.
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