Personal Narrative: After Graduating Emge Jr.

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After graduating Emge Jr. High, I attended West. On the first day of school I was scared because my old school wasn’t really big and for sure did not have as many people. As I went through my day everything ended up better and I realized it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was. It was more my head making me think that.
Freshman year was ok. I was scared at the fact that I didn’t know anyone and that I would lose most of my friends. I had great teachers and made many new friends. We got picked on by the upperclassmen since we were the youngest in the school, but we didn’t let it bother us. Many teachers suggested everyone to get involved in school so, I joined Maroon Madness and went to many football games.
Sophomore year I was happy that I wasn’t

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