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Personal Narrative: High School

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I wish I could go back to kindergarten. “The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.” Laurie Halse Anderson. High school is a rough place like elementary with testosterone and steroids. It’s extremely fast paced and people won’t slow down for you nor anyone else either. My transcripts state the most difficult classes for me were spanish and math. Even though math was not a challenge for me, but I didn’t do homework, and I received high scores on test, which allowed me to pass the course. The least difficult classes for me were just about everything but spanish. English I’ve earned all a’s and one but think it was an accident. Science I got all
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was a pleasure to have all of you in this class and I hope you have a great time in high school and wish you all the best for the future.” I proceeded to second period, which was music. In music, we collected our final projects and work for the entire year. After that, we went around the room and signed our yearbooks with other students.

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