Middle school was a difficult time for me. After packing up my entire life, saying goodbye to all my friends, and moved 1000 miles away to a large, strange land called Texas. For the first eight months of middle school, I lived with family friends because my house was being sold. Having no friends, I was usually alone and quiet in my classes. It was extremely difficult adjusting to my new life. I think the hardest part was not knowing anyone. In elementary school, I was well known around the kids because it was a small school, and I was well known by the teachers because my mom taught 5th grade there. However, upon moving to Texas, no one knew who I was, or cared to try to learn. The only people that cared enough to talk to me were the other 8 kids in my percussion class. These people became the basis of my friendships that were to come, though eventually most of my friends in percussion either quit band or quit me, a few of these people are now long lasting friends.
Middle school was also where I met Sydney. While being my current girlfriend of almost 3 years, we didn’t start off that way. I sat behind her in our sixth grade math class, and generally made a fool of myself to get her attention. Over the course of the next year, we dated and broke up. But she never really left my life. If I could change anything about middle school, I would change my confidence, because I thought very low of myself, something that I still struggle with today, but only on the inside. I was the subject of ridicule among my fellow students, though I was never truly picked on. But because of this ridicule, my self-esteem was lowered and has yet to fully recover in the most inner parts of my mind. But middle school wasn’t all bad. I did establish a friendship with my best friend Jared, as well as started my career as a percussionist.
Middle School
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