My School Life

I have done a lot of things n my life. I’ve changed a whole lot especially all the different schools I went to. I started at Edison from kindergarten until the 5th grade. I graduated from there and went to Gloria R. Davis from 6th until 8th grade. There is when my life changed. More things was happing as far as new friends, boys, stress as well as all the problems I have till this day with my mom. I had fun at that school because it was in my neighborhood and it was mostly black kids. They turned that middle school in to a Dream School and I started 9th grade there as well. Even with a lot of different stuff going on in my life all the new changes, I still remained to get good grades and stay on the Honor Roll. The dream school was supposed to go up to 12th grade, each year it would go up a grade but it got shut down and all the kids had to go to a regular high school.

So from there I went to Galileo with one of my best friends, who I’ve been going to school with since the 2nd grade. The school was so big and filled with mostly Asian kids. I didn’t know how to get to most of my classes by myself for about two weeks. The only good thing was that every one got off campus lunch; not just the seniors. After staying there for one semester I had a lot of friends, but I wasn’t really feeling the school. It was too big and most of the time I just used to cut classes because they were so boring, so that meant my grades began to drop. My mom, as well as my friend’s mom, got us both out of Galileo and we went to ISA. I heard ISA was poppin’ so I wanted to go there and check it out for myself and my other best friend went there already. When I got there it was cool. I knew a lot of people already because the school was kind of by my neighborhood. The classes was cool not too big not too small. But still they were boring and my grades were affected by it. My best friend who I had been switching schools with wasn’t doing so good either so her mom got a house in Sacramento and she went to school out there and I went to John O’Connell. This school was different to because it was small and mostly Mexicans.

My grades got back on track - not how I want them to be - but it’s way better then what they were. I guess because I had to make a decision like everything is not going to be fun and poppin’. School is not going to be how I want it and I need to stay committed to something. So I’m still here at John O’Connell and this is my senior year.

- Kenisha