In my 8th grade year I transferred to Sheridan from Gahanna. When I joined the General community, I was a bit shy (like any other new peer joining another school), I was very quiet and I didn’t have much friends. But in English, I met my best friend Emily Welch. We worked on a project together and our friendship increased by the time the project was finished. We sat at lunch together and we would call each other almost every night. But one day we were sitting at lunch and we were talking and I noticed that she had a packet of sheet music and I was confused because I knew she wasn’t in marching band. I then proceeded to ask her why she possessed the sheet music and she explained that she was trying out for the show choir at the high school. And that was that.
Later on in the week we were in recess and she was talking to her group of friends and I was besides …show more content…
I loved it. And I never wanted to leave that group. That group became my home, my safe place. To enumerate, this group quickly became a family. This group has taught me to be kind, forgiving, and a leader. It teaches you to be respectful, and to help others. To put in differently, it taught you people skills. From time to time you would get disagreements with others but it never lasted long. Not to mention all of the late nights, early mornings, long summer days and cold fall nights. It became important to me. I wouldn’t trade this group for the