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Coming into a new school I didn’t know what to expect. I thought that once I entered high school I would be overwhelmed by school work and would not have time for my friends and family and fortunately I was wrong. My first semester of freshman year has come to an end and I have been able to maintain decent grades, but still have time to spend with my friends that went on to different high schools.

School is and will be my main priority for many years. I plan to go on to a four year university, but in order to accomplish this I have to put a lot of time and effort into my school work through out my four years of high school and so far I am satisfied on how it’s turned out. I have managed to get A’s and B’s in my seven classes at Foothill which are Biology, Health/Geography, EDA(Education in Digital Age), English, Physical Education, AVID, and Geometry.

Biology is one of my least favorite classes. I have never been engaged in learning science. It is just something I am definitely not interested in. There is just to many terms but I try my best to learn and have a good grade in the class. Health however is probably one of my favorite classes. My teacher Mr. Prewitt does a good job in making the subject interesting even though sometimes the images he shows us are disturbing I think it is a good way to give us a visual on how our lives can be if we don’t put an effort into being healthy. My third period class is Education in Digital Age with Ms. Faulconer. I don’t have any complains about this class. It is pretty easy to have a good grade if we just follow directions and use our in class project time wisely. After EDA comes English. In this class we usually just read books and write about them. Some of the boks we’ve read have been intresting while others have not. My favorite book we have read so far is probably Of Mice and Men. I think it is an intresting story that revolves around frendship and love for others. Physical Education is obviously nothing like English. It is not an academic class that requires us to use our brains. It requires us to use our body instead. Foothill has several Physical Education classes to choose from and I chose the YMCA class. It gives me a good work out by spinning class and step aerobics. Ms. Stevens pushes us to try our best and keep improving our physical health. Another class I enjoy is AVID. I like AVID class because even though it’s a class, it helps me with other classes that I’m struggling with, like geometry. I enjoy having geometry four times a week even though I am not very good at it. People say math is boring, but they are diffiney wrong when you have a teacher like Mr. Villa who is an amazing teacher that without a doubt knows how to make learning math fun.

Friends and Family take up the other half of my life. I don’t have many friends, but I am happy with the ones I do have. Coming into Foothill meant leaving behind my best friend Ruth Gomez. I have known her since elementary school and we have maintained friends since then. She is one of the few people from middle school that I have stayed friends with. I really don’t blame high school for that because I know that if people really cared about me they would reach out to me, but they don’t and I am more then okay with that as long as I still have my best friend.

High school didn’t make me loose friends it actually helped me make some new ones like Grace Stewart. On the first day of school I honestly never thought I would be friends with her she seemed so different then my other friends and I thought it would be impossible for me to be friends with her but to my surprise I was totally wrong. She became one of my closest friends quickly. I had all but two classes with her so I had the chance to talk to her frequently. I am happy to call her my friend and more than glad I met her.

My relationship with my family is different then my relationship with my friends. Unlike friends I know my family will always support me no matter what because wether they like it or not we’re realted, we can’t choose our family, but if I could I still wouldn’t change them. I am the oldest of three. My sister is 7 and my brother is 2. Because of our age diffrence it is challenging for us to get along at times. I get annoyed by them more than often, but I still love them regardless of how angry they make me. Sometimes I feel like my mom gets frustrated by us, we don’t always get a long but over all we have a good relationship. My dad is nothing like my mom. Unlike my mom, he works and is not always home but when he is home there is no diffrence really I don’t really talk to him because I never have anything to talk to him, I don’t have to ask for his permission to go anywere because that’s my mom’s job. Overall though he is still supportive of my education and celebrates my achievements. It is evident that school work, friends, and family have played a big role in my freshman year. Although Foothill wasn’t my first choice in high schools I have learned to like the school and I am thankful I had the chance to try it out and not let other people’s opinions about the school ruin my opportunity to define my own.