My Experience At Montevallo High School

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In this essay, I will be reflecting on my experience here at Montevallo High school, in which I have been going to for the past four years. Consequently, I started off as a freshman here at MHS in 2014 after passing the eighth grade in middle school and after my first day there I had a marvelous feeling that for the next few years were going to be honorable. When I first started as a Freshman, I joined several different extracurricular activities one of those groups was called The Battle of the Books in where we would read four through five books that were chosen for us to read and after they we would travel to a facility to do a book tournament against different schools. That year didn’t have much of an impact on , but later on in my school

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