6-8 Grade Experience

Middle school years are known to be tough and that’s exactly what they were. Puberty hits and your body starts going through all of these changes. Sometimes the eighth graders will make fun of your class for how bad you smell because you don’t know how to properly wear deodorant yet or shower on a daily basis. Sometimes they might put caution tape all over the closets because it smells like an animal died in your backpack. Don’t worry it gets better. Once you learn how to use proper hygiene, people will start liking you and stop making fun of you for “that smell”. Teachers always know how to give you confidence in the best of ways. Things like calling out your stupidity in front of the whole class really seem to help or making fun of you for not knowing the correct answer. Confidence is really boosted at this rate. Students are then shown that if they are unsure of the answer, that they shouldn’t raise their hand out of fear that they might possibly be wrong. At this time, I did, however, discover my love for reading. I loved the young adult and fantasy novels. I would always be seen reading in my free time, trying to get my hands on whatever I could. I had the best of friends during this time. I no longer am close friends with any of the ones I went to school with from K-8 but I still have all of these memories. At this time, I started dance at my new dance studio. This opened a lot of great opportunities for me today. I loved my time at this studio and I don’t know where I would be without all of my lifelong friendships.