my high school experience.

As of this past May 31st, I am a high school graduate. Some people may not see graduating high school as a big accomplishment because it's "easy" but I see it as a huge accomplishment. Neither of my parents graduated high school so it makes me feel very proud of myself to have done it. I also don't agree when people say that high school is "easy". It might not be the toughest thing but it's not "easy". I stumbled a bit while in high school. FRESHMEN YEAR: I didn't know anything about high school! I just showed up and did my work. I was in Honor classes and got A's and B's. I wasn't part of any sports team or club. I just went to school to learn. I didn't even make friends. I thought school was easy and thought I had it in the bag, but I was wrong. SOPHOMORE YEAR: Sophomore year was the worst year ever. I took WHAP which was the worst decision I have ever made. I passed WHAP with a D both semesters!! You would think that I would've learned the first semester and dropped the class, but I stayed. I was dumb, and I stayed. Since WHAP was stressing me out, it affected my grades in my other classes. My grades were ugly, i had B's and C's. I did have one A though, and that was in Multimedia. I joined the Digital Design and Engineering Academy my sophomore year and I was put in Multimedia. I had wanted to take Intro to Film because I thought I wanted to be a director at the time. I was mad that they had put me in Multimedia instead but in the end, I was grateful. Multimedia helped me learn about graphic design and it soon became my favorite thing. I also joined a club. It was an Asian club, I'm Latina. They accepted everyone but the club was centered on Asian heritage and they danced. I only joined to dance. I had begun to like dance the summer before because I was choreographing my own quinceañera dance. And I thought I was good enough to be part of their dance crew. And they thought I was good enough too. I performed in all three pep rallies with them. I had some good times dancing with them. JUNIOR YEAR: I feel like I was beginning to find myself junior year. I practically begged to be a part of Link Crew and I'm glad I did. I met some cool people in Link Crew and got closer to people I already knew. Link Crew really helped me become more outgoing and taught me to be a leader. I'm forever grateful that I was part of Link Crew. I also joined Tennis. I had wanted to join Tennis my sophomore year but the practice times conflicted with my quinceañera practices so I couldn't join. I had never played Tennis in my life before. To be honest, I sucked. I had fun playing and doing some exercise but I only won one game. I still loved graphic design and I took the second level class of Multimedia and joined Yearbook. I began to love graphic design even more. I have always been creative and artsy but I can't draw and graphic design is perfect for people who are artsy but can't draw. Since I got a D in WHAP, I had to take zero period credit retrieval. Being at school at 6:30 am was very difficult. I tried to take both semesters of World History at once but I failed. I only did one semester and I passed with a C. I did the second semester during the summer. I did independent study because I also had an internship at a photography studio that summer. I passed the second semester of World History with an A. It was junior year and I still hadn't made real friends at school. I had no friends so I sat alone in a classroom during lunch. Even though there were great things in my life, I was sad. I felt so lonely. I don't understand why making friends is so difficult for me. I was going through personal problems outside of school which made me feel even lonelier. I pushed away the only true friend I had because of those personal problems. A year and a half later, I still don't have that friend back. SENIOR YEAR: My senior year was a bit less lonely. I was still part of Link Crew. I actually became one of the commissioners and the historian. I still love Link Crew even though I didn't receive the scholarship for being part of it. No hard feelings Mrs.Fabela. I still sucked at Tennis but I was part of the Varsity team for some reason. I was a doubles player and I had the worst partner ever. We would've won more games if my partner would have actually ran after the ball. I still loved graphic design. I plan on studying graphic design in college. I was also an "editor" for the Yearbook. I also took an Intro to Journalism class to help my copy writing for yearbook and I turned out to be the editor-in-chief. That class is what led me to the creation of this website. I found out that I love writing my thoughts so I decided to create a blog. And here I am, writing this, for my blog. Sadly, I didn't actually learn about writing in that class though, I just wrote articles with few knowledge on how to do it. I may be forgetting a huge part of my high school career but it's okay. After reading that you may be thinking that high school was "easy" for me. If it were easy, I wouldn't have been stressing over my grades and I wouldn't have cried myself to sleep several times. But we're all entitled to an opinion.