My Experience In O Dea And Eastside Catholic

I applied to only three schools my 8th-grade year, O'Dea, Seattle Prep, and Eastside Catholic. I got into O'Dea and Eastside but not Prep. I was heartbroken because this was my dream high school and my best friend was going there. I soon gotten over it and decided to attend Eastside Catholic. My first year of high school at Eastside Catholic was extremely challenging. I had to go from waking up 15 minutes before school started to an hour and thirty minutes before school started. I also had to get use to teachers not babying me. I had came from a middle school where the graduating class was 24 people to now a huge school where teachers who had plenty of students who were struggling and couldn’t reach out to each and every one. Another change

As you can imagine, this was the biggest and hardest adjustment I had to make in my entire life. I struggled at Eastside academically and socially. This was never because i lost my charismatic touch or that i wasn’t intelligent enough to perform to my potential, but it was the fatigue weighing me down. This made me very lazy and as some would call it “antisocial”, but me being in a shell or not being a hard worker was never the case. My journey through life taught me many things but these couple of years taught me the most. These past years taught me how to settle my differences with others and understand the best me i could be was me. It was hard to do because i was around a completely different type of people with completely different types of problems. I felt like i needed to correct this ignorance of the people around me. I had to teach myself not to care about what others think and just be the funny, charismatic kid i was raised to be. Speaking of my youth, I grew up in Rubidoux, California, a small town about an hour outside of Los

My mother had moved into the Mojave Desert with one of her friends from college and my father went from house to house all around the Inland Empire. My father was out of a job and my mom was informed that she was going to be laid off in 6 months. Through all the things my family went through we continued to stay strong and the love continued to be strong. My mom was soon offered by another college friend a job working for the City of Seattle. My dad understood that he had to let my younger sister, Jayden, and i move out of state with my mom because he knew she was gonna take care of us and make sure we had a good education. When we moved i had extreme separation anxiety and I remember days when i would stay up late at night and cry myself to sleep because of how much i missed my father and siblings. This soon correlated into me acting out in school because my father and older siblings were no longer present in my everyday life. Through my middle school, St. Therese Catholic Academy, i learned lessons about myself, friendship, and relationships with teachers. I soon matured in my school and became someone the younger students whose place i was in 3 years