School Year

It was an interesting school year for me.  Because of our house fire I attended two different schools in two different states, in two different grades.

Missouri

So, I started the year in Missouri, attending school at Couch Schools.  My parents thought they were registering me for 7th grade, but the school accidentally enrolled me in 8th grade.  The weird thing about it was i am 12 and was the same age as the 6th grade kids.  So I was much younger than the other 8th graders.

We didn’t catch the school mistake until i got my schedule for the school year and all my classes were in the 8th grade. I went home and told my dad about all of the error.  A couple of days later my dad went into the school office and told them that he was fine with me staying in 8th grade as long as they were. He knew that I was able to do the 8th grade school work.  They agreed, and I was left in the 8th grade.  I was doing perfectly fine having skipped 7th grade and was one of the smartest in the class.

Pleasant Grove, Utah

In late October we had a house fire and moved to Utah.  When we got here Mom took me to register for school again at Pleasant Grove Junior High.

Because of my birth date, and because we didn’t think we’d be living here for the entire school year I was placed in 7th Grade.  Now I am among the smartest in my class.  Rather than being 2 years younger than the kids in my class, now I am less than a year younger. All of my classes are a bit easier than they were in Missouri because the school has a lower expectation for my grade than they did for the 8th grade. However, my classes are teaching the things I learned in 8th grade in Missouri.

Most of the things we are being taught I know, however I am still learning a significant amount of stuff. This year in English our teacher has taught us verbs, when to use commas, how to write an essay, how to read and write an outline for an essay, how to combine words, what a compound word is, etc.  But I already knew all of these things from the school in Missouri. So, I didn’t get much from English this school year.

Friends

At first it was hard to make friends here because I came in the middle of the school year.  I didn’t know anyone. So for  a while I sat alone at lunch while I tried to make new friends during my classes. After a while I started to know most of the people and pick some friends. I started to become friends with a lot of people such as the people I would sit next to in my classes. At lunch and at our other free times I would just keep talking to everyone and soon became friends with everyone.

However, I still had some people I didn’t particularly like because most of the things they would talk about didn’t really seem like something I should be listening to. To avoid having that stuff in my mind I would just try to stay away from those people. After a while  I was still hearing things that I didn’t like listening to so I tried to just ignore them and chose not to let that inappropriate language linger in my mind.  I was able to successfully go through the whole school year without lingering on any of the things that I heard and knew were not right for me.

Conclusion

Overall the school year was pretty good.  I miss parts of it because we were moving, but I was still able to learn and enjoy the year.  I am hoping that next school year is just a good, if not better.  Hopefully I can get into classes that I want and that are exciting to me.   I’m looking forward to making new friends at a new school next year, and hopefully get to spend more time with them then here in PG.