from sixth grade to eighth

School is like skiing, some parts its like a green circle, nice, smooth and easy. But sometimes it can be a dangerous black diamond, what I mean by this is that there is challenges throughout the year, they can be small challenges, or big ones. Back in my days in 6th and 7th grade i feel like almost everyday was a green circle, one or two assignments, and a rare occasion of a test. 8th grade is a whole other story, i get home having to go straight to homework, usually finish it by 7:00, then straight to dinner and piano. 7th grade’s work load was much smaller and because of that i would have much more free time.

8th grade has a different day, back in middle school you had lunch earlier, you had 3 classes, lunch, then a last class. After that sports and study hall. You left school at 4:00. Now in upper school you get home at 5:30, which changes everything. In 8th grade you also can choose your arts, and there is more options. I chose theater tech for the first term, and am planning on acting and art in the other terms. 

The first month or two back to school is scary, you don’t know what to except. Especially if your going from lower to middle school, or middle to upper school. If your changing from one part of school to another, your fenn career changes.  Everything is different and as you move of in grades the stress and work load gets higher. 

As a 8th grader its as if the kids in the lower grades look up to us. It’s cool how whenever we do something or we say something, they always try to act or copy us. This is not a bad thing, everybody looks up to someone who’s older or “cooler.” Back at my old school the old kids would be cool and “big”, on the bus I would always try to hang out with them because I thought they were cool.

This year is going to be different than others, more stressful. Different topics. But I just hope I have some free time to spend time with friends and not think about school and just think about the other things in my life.