Rough draft: Memoir

Waking up Monday through Friday at 6.00am to catch the school bus was difficult sometimes. Even just going to school so early just to sit in class all day, but some days I would love it. Every kid has their own school experience; it could have been bad or even good.  My personal experience was both: good and bad.

                For the sports at school that I played was basketball, and cheer leading. But out of both sports I chose basketball the most. Having so much time into both sports awards have been giving to be over the course of seasons. When I was I 6^th grade I tried out for the middle school basketball team and I made the team with all the hard work I put in. We had such a great season and a great coach. The next season that came around they hired a new coach, and I knew the coach. She was my best friend’s mother. I’ve been on her basketball team for the town to, and since I was on the basketball team last year your more likey to  be on the team again. So the day of try outs came I worked really hard to make the team. The coach posted the list of who was on the team, and my name was not on the list. My whole basketball dreams were crushed as a kid. Having that said my grades from there just shot down because my grades were always so high so I could play basketball, and I was so crushed I just gave up. So when it was time to move up to the high school I was scared to try out for anything. So what I did was tried out for cheer leading and I made the team. I cheered for two years until I had gotten into some trouble with my parents. They told me I couldn’t cheer anymore. So I tried out for basketball the following year. I was so happy that I made the team I had good grades all through high school.

                There were two teachers in my life that helped me so much just to get me through school. The middle school teacher was Mrs. Fernandez. My all-time favorite was Mrs, Hurley. They both always made sure my grades were high. But when they got low and started to drop they would always be on my case about getting them higher. I could talk to them about anything that had to come to mind. If i needed someone to talk to they were there like my bestfriend would be.These two teachers were always at my iep meetings.  They have helped me progress so much.

      Having an iep in school can be a tough thing. I’ve had once since day one of school. I was always nervous kids would me front of me because I had one. Having one made me think that they would think of me different. I would have to get pulled from classes to go to special classes were they helped me with a subject I was struggling with. It would embarrass me because the kids would always ask me why they take me out of the classroom. I would just tell them I needed to finish a test. As a kid it had always made me think I was a dumb kid because no one else was getting taken out of the class for extra help. But now I look at it as me need more help with my studies no big deal. So it was hard for me as a kid. The iep testing was a pain. The test I felt were pointless to do but yet it tested my ability for certain things. Having an iep was good because it had helped me get through school with that little extra help that I needed. The accommodations that I had were great.

                In school having a lot of friends was the coolest thing in school. For me I got along with a lot of people but didn’t care how many friends I had. I would get comments about how I had a iep from kids, but I really didn’t care what they had to say. All I needed as friends was my best friend’s. Having seen other kids get bullied was horrible so I would always stick up for them when I see anything like that. That was always my weakness. Every student should have a good school experience with accepts of some bad times.      

        To Conclude my school experience  was good and bad. I still enjoyed it, and my memories that i had at school. I wouldn't take anything back through my school experience!