Personal Narrative: My Experience In Elementary School

The elementary school I went to was public and the educational system was from kindergarten to sixth grade. From here, I met some of my, not necessarily closest, but long lasted friends. Three of whom I am quite close to today were of these three girls: Ariel, Jenny and Kimberly. I met these folks at different times. I met Ariel and Jenny in first grade. My mom and their moms met while picking us kids up. From then on, we were introduced to each other. Then drama took place. After second grade, Ariel and Jenny took a gate exam and passed. They both transferred to a more prestigious school called Rhodes Elementary School. From then on I felt what I felt back when I received glasses: loneliness. They never told me they were taking this exam and they just left me together. In a way, I felt our friendship was betrayed. However, this did not stop our friendship from continuing. As for Kimberly, I met her back in third grade. We got along really well and were called the Bobbsey twins. I was surprised to how that was. Somehow, the four of us got together and I called us the “four musketeers.” We had a love-hate relationship for each other. Ariel was practically the leader of the group. I am not sure how, but her personality is very firm. If there is something she wants, she will get it. I am not sure if I was hated by her, but she always somehow made me feel like trash. Jenny and Kimberly were more on the soft side, but they followed Ariel in everything she did. Nevertheless, they affected me a lot in terms of how I experienced friendships. Fourth grade and on was when I became friends with a lot of people. I hung out with the nerdy students who were also band students. I did not mind; in fact, I enjoyed their company more than the “popular” students. They seemed to be the most down-to-earth. I was good friends with all of the “popular” students, but I did not fit in very long. There was this one girl whom I was good friends with. She had a brother who complained about her. As a good friend, I thought telling her would be an honest thing a friend could do. I went with another friend to tell her and she was in disbelief. A few days later, she came up to my other friend and I to say we were not invited to her birthday party. They questioned the little brother, he denied of such complaint, and they trusted him. They came back to the two of us and said we were trying to break apart the family when that was not the case at all. This was the time I learned about misinterpretations. Such small thing really affected our friendship and I have to say that was when I was annoyed with girl drama. Family was still the best thing that has ever happened to me. They were always there for me and always encouraged me to succeed in whatever I wanted to succeed in. When I had trouble in terms of with classes, grades, or friendships, they would always try to calm me down …show more content…
Mr. Li was my least favorite teacher. Unlike my teachers in the past, he did not care whether or not I played well. This was the start of when I started to think taking lessons from teachers limited my ability to play piano. I did not like to play piano much, but I did not stop. It just was not second nature that I wanted to play. The music we played was chosen by the teacher. Whether I enjoyed the music or not we were forced to play. He was strict, yelled at me, and I felt obligated to play. I could stomp my way to my room and cry and he would just sit there by the piano doing nothing at all. It was when my mom noticed he was not doing a thing that she was furious. He was paid to teach me, yet he did not really teach me a thing. Those years I consider was wasted. The next teacher I was taught was by Mrs. Lai. She did an exceptional job. I could talk to her as a friend and feel comfortable enough to voice my own