High school was an adventure. This time around, I was in courses that I picked and not determined by someone else who followed how you rank the offered courses. At the end of junior high, we were left with the phrase from every teacher that we will no longer be with the people we usually hang out with. How true can that be? I am not able to say.


I started my first year off in high school rough. However, I was able to adapt quite easily through the attendance of leadership seminars every week. I started to get a little more involved with events around the school and eventually around the community. The teachers were far from different than what our junior high teachers prescribed them as. They weren't uncaring, leaving you on your own and were helpful with finding your way around. They were the exact opposite of what our junior high teachers told us. Perhaps, they told us that "lie" to prepare us, or maybe they went through something completely different during their time.

First year in, I had an assortment of classes and I felt good and at ease with them. I was fortunate enough to have every other day free in the second semester where I was able to go to leadership and further enhance my life skills. The regular days, I had a class where I was able to do homework and receive additional help when I needed it, due the fact that I didn't do too well in junior high. Nonetheless, I excelled in the main course wasting most of my time in the additional help class.


Grade 11 rolls by and I took a block (there are 4 blocks in a day) of my day during the first semester to go to leadership. There I was able to further enhance my abilities, be assigned responsibilities and earn the trust of the department head. Furthermore, I ran to the students' union president, though I was not successful - it may have benefited me instead. There's nothing much to say as things went a certain direction and it worked out quite well.

Into my last year of high school, there's a new development in our family and household. This year is extremely important as I must pass all courses in order to graduate and move on to post-secondary. I was satisfied with my first semester where my courses went out pretty well. I still took a block of my day out the first semester to go to leadership. But, this time, I took on the position of being the chairperson of Spirit Wear for the school year. Designing, advertising, and promoting what we had to sell was a wonderful journey. I also met some great people during my spare time in leadership and I learned a lot more about myself and what I was socially doing wrong. That realization of what I was doing wrong, dawned upon me and led me to become who I am today.

The second semester comes around the corner and it was a roller coaster for me. For some odd reason, the course I excelled in continuously the 2 years before, I was now having trouble. It was partially a leap from what I knew and learned to something completely different. Part of the blame for this is the instructor, as I knew from how others have struggled with this particular teacher in the past, I would too - even though I told myself I won't. I got through it with my ups and downs despite being worried about whether or not I would being able to graduate and move on to post-secondary. In the end, I graduated and received my high school diploma.

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