Narrative: Body Paragraphs

I don’t know what it is about being around a lot of people but I love it. There’s something about knowing everyone and having everyone wanting to talk to me that empowers me. It makes me feel untouchable. At regular a public high school that’s the way things are for me. As soon as I walk in the door, I’m constantly talking to people. I can’t walk more than a couple of feet without being stopped by someone just to talk to them. I love being able to walk around from group of friends to another group of friends. I guess I just get tired of people kind of fast and that’s why I go around from group to group but it’s also kind of nice to have a lot of friends because when there is drama with one group of friends than you can always just go to another group until things cool down. Plus another major thing that I like about my old school is that they sell breakfast in the mornings. I can barely live not having breakfast, and as amazing as Summit is, it still doesn’t have breakfast and I almost go hungry everyday. Finally the last thing I love about mainstream schools are that you can walk around with your iPod and phone and nobody cares. Plus I like not having the same classes everyday.

When I went to Lone Peak High School, I would constantly skip class because even though I would eat lunch every morning I still got really hungry and so did my friends, so we would go to one of there houses or somewhere to get food. Plus another thing that I have always had trouble with is the discipline to get up in the morning, so I would sleep in for a long time. And then when I felt like it I would go to school which was evidently not the best idea. I hated class mostly because I would miss so much that I never knew what was going on so it would be frustrating and embarrassing to go to class and have no idea what was going on. Since I hated paying attention in class because I was so far behind, I would just go back to sleep or I would just go walk around the halls. If I had money, I would go buy myself some food from the vending machines. I loved it because I would just go and screw around, I wouldn’t have to do hardly any work and I would just go hangout with my friends. I would go and talk to everyone in the halls and go with them out to lunch, basically I did whatever I wanted and I loved it.

School was a lot of fun when I wasn’t in class but eventually my dumb mistakes caught up to me. During the last term of my tenth grade year, my counselor brought me into her office and we sat down to talk. She told me that I needed to get my grades up, that I needed to start coming to school everyday and if I didn’t than I would have to find another way to get my credits. I kind of blew it off and didn’t really start doing much better but then she brought me in a couple more times and brought my aunt and uncle in too. She told us that if things didn’t improve than next year I would have to go to either East Shore, do electric high school or there was a third option of going to another school. Now that scared me. That meant I would have to leave all my friends. That was the last thing I wanted to happen so I kicked it into gear but it was to close to the end of the year to get them up. I tried really hard and I talked to my teachers trying to figure out a way to get my grades to at least passing. My grades went up and some of them were pretty decent but they weren’t good enough I still failed a couple of classes. So during the last couple of weeks of school my aunt, uncle and I all sat down with my counselor and talked. I was not going to be able to go to school next year. We had to figure out where I would go and finally my aunt decided that Summit was the place that I should go. She didn’t want to drive me to East Shore everyday and she didn’t want to pay for electronic high school.

I had the option of working with the janitor to get my credit for the classes that I passed but just had no credit for because of my lack of attendance but I only did that once and for some retarded reason decided that I’d rather hangout over the summer instead of taking a couple of hours to get my credit. So I went the whole summer just having a great time and finally the school year crept up on me. I was furious to be going to another school but decided that there was nothing I could do about it because I really needed that credit to graduate. My plan was to not make any friends and to just go to class, get good grades and then leave back to Lone Peak as soon as I could. I found out that the soonest I could go back was the following year, my senior year. That made me so livid that I could barely stand it. I started skipping school again and going to visit my old high school. I was still passing my classes with pretty good grades but things weren’t going to end up good if I continued to skip school so after talking to Doug a bunch I started going to school a lot more. I still miss a day every couple of weeks but I have definitely improved. My progress has been substantial. My grades are really good but for some reason I can’t get any better than a 3.4 gpa. I swear I’ll be planning on having a bunch of A’s and they’ll be A’s till I get my report card and they end up being B’s. It doesn’t make sense to me because I’ll have A’s on the last day of the term but then on my report card it somehow changes. All together I couldn’t stand not making friends and eventually I became very social. Now that I have let Summit change my life I am very grateful for having been sent here. The people and faculty have really made an effect on my life. When I go back to Lone Peak next year I will not go back to my old ways. I will be getting good grades even if it kills me. Life has a strange way of teaching you lessons but I am so glad that I finally got the life lessons that I have from Summit.


-Alex