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My High School Experience:
well, there are only two more days of high school left for me and what have i learned? everything that makes me who i am. high school is when you grow up the most. you can see the change in people from being a frightened freshman, a sassy sophmore, a jerky junior, to a sophisticated senior. My freshman year was my favorite year. Its when i first moved to louisiana. Sure i was born here but i didnt know anyone when i came back. I remember orientation like it was yesterday. i saw everyone with their grade school friends going through this enormous change together. I started school and met a girl names annie. Shes a sweetheart but she wasnt the person i was supposed to spend my "maturing days" with. P.E. in Mr. Materne's class..oh i will never forget how short his shorts were..is where i met jena. She changed me. She made me more aware of my surroundings. she knew alot more than i did and i was scared to be her friend because of that. But if i didnt take the chance i would completely different than i am now. And im sure in a bad way. Freshman year was when i realized that high school was going to be an experience i would never forget. I learned the clothing styles even though it took me a while to adapt to them, i learned that you dont have to hang out with just one person even though i did because i didnt have many friends my freshman year, and going to dances is how you make the best of friends. Especially when youre a freshman. Thats the only people that go to those back to school dances. Then my sophmore year came. I fell in love with a freshman who i have never completely gotten over. He broke my heart and i spent nights crying myself to sleep. I moved into my first real "HOME" not an apartment. I learned its ok if you get kissed after a date. I was mortified the first time someone other than my 8th grade boyfriend of 7 months kissed me (not naming names). I met alittle more people but i still wasnt too well known. I mostly spent my time with jena. And we became such close friends. I made the flag team and Jena made it too and we made it hell for the other girls. Ill never forget those times. They made my sophmore year. So many inside jokes came from that year on flag team. Thats the first time i saw New Found Glory. Jena and i always said that we would go see them together and thats exactly who was by my side when jordan, chad, steve, ian, and cyrus hit that stage. She is the first person i ever went to a concert with. Sophmore year is when i accidentally sent jena to the hospital for a night. Her cat bit her. Then summer came and we were inseperable. Thats when my junior year snuck up on me. I had alot more friends. I got suspended for the first time..and last. I got more "involved" with my school and then i had to transfer to Mandeville High. I had to start the last two and a half years of my life over again. Jena was gone, my ideal view of high school was gone and i had to stick it out for a year and a half. Having minimal friends at mandeville didnt make it any better. I met tina, amanda, and monica. I spent alot of time with them but they, again, were not who i was supposed to spend the rest of my high school career with. I waited that half of a year out. Then came my Senior year. I met mei-lei. Since jena and i were drifting away, we did try our hardest to stay as close as we were but its almost impossible, i became closer with mei-lei. I still supported Fontainebleau. On spirit day i was decked out in red and black and at the football games and basketball games i was all for FHS. I was not let into our FHS vs. MHS basketball game because Mei-Lei and i were in red and black. Yea many Mandeville people talked about me but im a true Fontainebleau girl at heart. (Rouge. sorry i had to add that in.) I went on a cruise, i experienced my first mardi gras, i went to my senior prom, i went to Disney World with my other fellow seniors, and i am going to cross the SLU stage on tuesday to accept my diploma a more experienced Raven. If i never would have met jena, spent that year with flag team, get suspeneded, and meet Mei-lei then i wouldnt be as intelligent as grown-up or as happy with my life as i am now. I feel that i have made the best of my high school career as i could have. You have to rebel alittle to have great results and experiences. Without the choices i made i wouldnt have stories to tell. Thank you to everyone who has made my life such a journey. I love you for it.
-Raven
well, there are only two more days of high school left for me and what have i learned? everything that makes me who i am. high school is when you grow up the most. you can see the change in people from being a frightened freshman, a sassy sophmore, a jerky junior, to a sophisticated senior. My freshman year was my favorite year. Its when i first moved to louisiana. Sure i was born here but i didnt know anyone when i came back. I remember orientation like it was yesterday. i saw everyone with their grade school friends going through this enormous change together. I started school and met a girl names annie. Shes a sweetheart but she wasnt the person i was supposed to spend my "maturing days" with. P.E. in Mr. Materne's class..oh i will never forget how short his shorts were..is where i met jena. She changed me. She made me more aware of my surroundings. she knew alot more than i did and i was scared to be her friend because of that. But if i didnt take the chance i would completely different than i am now. And im sure in a bad way. Freshman year was when i realized that high school was going to be an experience i would never forget. I learned the clothing styles even though it took me a while to adapt to them, i learned that you dont have to hang out with just one person even though i did because i didnt have many friends my freshman year, and going to dances is how you make the best of friends. Especially when youre a freshman. Thats the only people that go to those back to school dances. Then my sophmore year came. I fell in love with a freshman who i have never completely gotten over. He broke my heart and i spent nights crying myself to sleep. I moved into my first real "HOME" not an apartment. I learned its ok if you get kissed after a date. I was mortified the first time someone other than my 8th grade boyfriend of 7 months kissed me (not naming names). I met alittle more people but i still wasnt too well known. I mostly spent my time with jena. And we became such close friends. I made the flag team and Jena made it too and we made it hell for the other girls. Ill never forget those times. They made my sophmore year. So many inside jokes came from that year on flag team. Thats the first time i saw New Found Glory. Jena and i always said that we would go see them together and thats exactly who was by my side when jordan, chad, steve, ian, and cyrus hit that stage. She is the first person i ever went to a concert with. Sophmore year is when i accidentally sent jena to the hospital for a night. Her cat bit her. Then summer came and we were inseperable. Thats when my junior year snuck up on me. I had alot more friends. I got suspended for the first time..and last. I got more "involved" with my school and then i had to transfer to Mandeville High. I had to start the last two and a half years of my life over again. Jena was gone, my ideal view of high school was gone and i had to stick it out for a year and a half. Having minimal friends at mandeville didnt make it any better. I met tina, amanda, and monica. I spent alot of time with them but they, again, were not who i was supposed to spend the rest of my high school career with. I waited that half of a year out. Then came my Senior year. I met mei-lei. Since jena and i were drifting away, we did try our hardest to stay as close as we were but its almost impossible, i became closer with mei-lei. I still supported Fontainebleau. On spirit day i was decked out in red and black and at the football games and basketball games i was all for FHS. I was not let into our FHS vs. MHS basketball game because Mei-Lei and i were in red and black. Yea many Mandeville people talked about me but im a true Fontainebleau girl at heart. (Rouge. sorry i had to add that in.) I went on a cruise, i experienced my first mardi gras, i went to my senior prom, i went to Disney World with my other fellow seniors, and i am going to cross the SLU stage on tuesday to accept my diploma a more experienced Raven. If i never would have met jena, spent that year with flag team, get suspeneded, and meet Mei-lei then i wouldnt be as intelligent as grown-up or as happy with my life as i am now. I feel that i have made the best of my high school career as i could have. You have to rebel alittle to have great results and experiences. Without the choices i made i wouldnt have stories to tell. Thank you to everyone who has made my life such a journey. I love you for it.
-Raven