Personal Narrative-High School

I've always been an observer. During my middle school years, I constantly observed the different types of personalities, different interactions, and even different settings but, I never commented on anything. I took in everything in my sight but could never spit out words to analyze it. Everything I saw I broke it down in my head and I was stuck on how to react. I remember it like it was yesterday. 8th grade sitting in my social studies class laid back in my chair. I feel my phone vibrating and I automatically raise my hand to be excused from the classroom. As I walk out I bring the phone to my ear and I recognize the voice in the speaker, my mother. I ask her why she's calling during class and she tells me one thing that changed my life forever:

Coming into high school I realized that I needed to change my perspective on everything. Maturity blossomed into me naturally and I became someone different. As soon as I walked into the Academy of Mount St. Ursula, I knew I had to change. The atmosphere from this school was so much more different than my public middle school. I felt loved and accepted but I also felt challenged. Public school was all immature fun and jokes but I was not prepared whatsoever. This was a clean slate for me. A brand new start with new faces and new lessons to learn. I was praying to God that I wouldn't mess up my freshman year but it was challenging trying to transition from public school to a catholic college preparatory school. I went through so many failures up and down that I now look back to and laugh. I was dealing with depression and stress all at once. Life threw many curve balls at me but I always kept on and never stopped. Even when I failed I always kept a smile on my face. My failures throughout my first two years of high school made me realize that I had to work harder and surround myself with nothing but positivity. I learned to help myself accept my failures and use them as a motivation for