How To Write A Narrative Essay About My Moment In Mid-Carolina Middle School

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Libba Bray said “And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.” The beginning of the experience that would define my very existence happened exactly like that. One person, one moment. Totally unexpected, but it happened and I haven’t been the same since. In the weeks leading up to that fateful day, I protested any attempt towards exciting me over what I knew would be a horrible experience. It is the summer, weeks before the beginning of my seventh grade year. I have just finished my first year at a new school, Mid-Carolina Middle School and I am not excited about going back early. Before Mid Carolina Middle (MCMS) I went to several schools in the city of Newberry, none of which should have fed into MCMS. I had lived in the city all my life, until we moved at the end of the year before. I was happy with the school I was in, but my mother had heard several reports of the declining status of Newberry high school, and did not want any part of it. We bought a house on family property and moved in October. …show more content…

But for me, I was going in completely blind. While other kids had friends from their elementary schools I knew no one, and had to make all new friends. I did make a few, but to me that wasn’t enough. I wanted so desperately to be cool, to be popular. To a sixth grader, popularity means everything. School was all I dealt with every day, and would deal with for several years, so I wanted to be liked, and have friends and have the “best time of my life”. I wore name brand clothes, messed around in classes, and tried to befriend the “right” people. I became interested in sports and listened to country and started to swore all the time. By the end of the year I was convinced that I was going to play baseball, but my mother had other

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