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Personal Narrative: My High School Career

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My high school career has been like a big ole road trip from the east coast to the west coast. The beginning of the freshman year started out like being in California not caring what I was doing or how I was gonna get there. All I knew was that I wanted to make it to the end and graduate and go to college. I did not how I was gonna make the journey, all I knew was that I was eventually going to get there. My goal was to travel to the east coast somewhere and see what college I ended up at. Throughout the journey there are tons of ups and downs that were expected and also unexpected. I’m not completely sure if I took the best path, but I believe I did make the journey successfully. The road trip from freshman year to senior year has turned me into a very hardworking and determined person while setting me on the right track to being successful. …show more content…

I did not take anything serious and I loved to mess around. I can remember the certain classes that I just went haywire in and was a basically a crazy maniac. Doing homework was not that big of a deal to me and I loved to push it aside. I could have cared less about studying and it was not a big deal to me. I now feel bad for my teachers because I now understand I was a real pain in the bahookie. At the end of freshman year, I started to realize that I needed to clean up my act if I wanted to be successful. I would relate my freshman year like traveling thought that mountain’s ups and downs on my trip. It started off fun and exciting, but the ups and downs came up real

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