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Coming Of Age Experience Essay

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A coming of age experience for me would be when I was entering Middle School and I was 11 years old when I had my first coming of age experience. It was a scary for me because in school, I only had one class and on different days I would go to different teachers for music or PE. Middle School was also a coming of age experience for me was because I was going off into another school and I had also just started to the play the flute and I wasn’t sure if I was going to fit in or if I was going to quit band at all but I didn’t I stayed in the band and I was so scared because when I walked into the Middle School I had seen people that I didn’t know and I didn’t see any of my friends yet so I just went to the band room and I was there for a few minutes until I decided to go and look around for some friends and to see if I recognize some of my old friends from the other elementary school that I went to. Middle School my sixth …show more content…

It also helped me because it was like I was getting rid of some of the emotions that I had and I was just letting them all out while I was playing my music and playing my flute. It also helped me because I would get into the music a little bit and if it was a song that we knew then some of us would sing along while we are on our measure rests during our music. This is my Coming of Age experience in Middle

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