Personal Narrative: An Event That Changed My Life

An event that changed my life was the first year of middle school. I was around eleven or twelve at the time.
When I first walked in the way it was organized really messed up the image of the elementary school that I carried with me for years.
I am not going to lie either it scared the absolute crap out of me.
The reasons why it scared the crap out of me was because what middle school mean for me was that the teachers would be more strict, there was going to be challenging work, and that there was going to be bullies.

For me the teachers were way more strict than what they had seemed, for example my social studies teacher (whom I shall not name) never took anything from anyone no back sass, no excuses, etc.
Really some of the teachers were not as strict but also not too laid back, for example my English teacher would let us talk sometimes, yet she would always change her mind a bit.

Now the final teacher who I am going to tell about was very laid back.

It was my gym teacher, and I know of course gym teachers can be really laid back, or whatever, but this teacher was different. He would usually let us pick our groups or give the students more than one choice of activities sometimes.
Really the gym coach or teacher was the most laid back teacher I had all year, and these three teachers taught me something that year.
That something they taught me that year was that teachers have different personalities and have a different tolerant level than other teachers.
That is how the teachers played a small role in my first year experience of middle school.
Now for the class work and homework was very weird.
Some classes I would get a ton of class work but no homework, but in some classes I would get little classwork but get a ton of homework.
In my opinion it was very annoying, because it would leave me just sitting and my wooden desk area in my room (basement) working for

hours.
What’s worse is that sometimes the teachers didn’t even grade the homework they just took it took a glance and put in a score.
One last thing about the homework and classwork is that sometimes the teachers didn’t explain it well for me, and really I didn’t really understand things in sixth grade then what I did in the elementary school.
That’s why homework and class work played a small role in my first year of middle school.
Now the last thing that scared me, or played a role in my first year of middle school was I was afraid to get bullied.
I was so intimidated by the older grade especially the eighth graders, because since we had lockers in middle school I was sure that I was going to be shoved in a locker (Luckily it never happened).
Another thing I was afraid of was that if I went to use the restrooms that I was going to meet someone and get beaten and have to tell someone and have the bully beat me again for snitching on them.
Now the last thing that scared me about being bullied was if my friends would get bullied as well.
I was so afraid because they actually meant something to me other than just people.
Luckily none of us got bullied.
Now how everything I have told you shaped the way I looked back at middle school or at least the first year, because I thought I was going to live through all of it.
I did live through it despite all of the teachers, all of the classwork and homework, and the fear of bullies.

Now how middle school shapes in my mind is that in life you have to expect the unexpected, until it comes to middle school then it’s basically survival to the fittest.