New Places, New Things

Is it just me, or is the fact that we are almost done with junior high slightly scary? I mean it seems like it wasn't that long ago that it was just summer and I was so glad the year was over and I had a few months to relax. Now we're choosing our classes for our first year in high school and we're hearing everywhere that what classes we choose now are going to be really important later. It is going to influence the rest of our lives.

We have just one more term left at our school and then we're split. We will no longer be Falcons. Half of us will be Darts and the other half will be Lancers. We've all known this would happen, but isn't the reality that it's happening so soon startling to anyone but me?

Yesterday I was staying after school to work on a project with mL and some eighth graders. When we were done I then had to wait for Izzi and Em to get done with play practice (they are doing stage crew). After that I was waiting outside for my mom to get there to pick me and my sisters up when Mr. T came out of the building to go home.

I said hello, he asked why I was still there. The same conversation we have every time it happens. Then he said something that made me laugh, and then it made me think. "When you guys leave you are going to have withdrawals from this school." or something along those lines, but I couldn't deny how true it is. I spend so much of my time at school that I don't know what I'll do when I'm no longer a student there. I know, I'm a nerd, but seriously? That place is like my second home. I never liked elementary school, and so I don't really remember it very well, but I could tell you some of the exact conversations I had on my first day at our school. I love it there. I've met some of the most amazing people, and I've become friends with some people I had almost forgotten about.

I don't know how much I'm going to like being a Lancer. I do know that I will miss being a Falcon so much, and that it is going to be so weird to walk through the doors of Layton High this fall and think that that is where I will be going to school for the next three years. It's going to be hard, and I know I'm going to hate it at least a little at first simply because it's different, but I know that in time I will get new friends there, and I'll find teachers that are just as wonderful as the one's I've had the last three years.

I can't help it though. I'm going to miss Fairfield. I can't tell you one thing that has happened there that I hated. I've loved every part of junior high.

I have friends that will be going to Davis next year, and I know that I won't ever talk to some of them again. Some people might say that that's just life, but these people have been so great, and I love them with all of my heart. I think it sucks that something as simple as going to a different school will be able to tear us apart, but I know it is probably going to happen.

The idea of high school is still exciting for me. I'm so excited to be in a new place with new people. I can't wait to experience something new.

So, even though I'm way excited for high school, I'm so sad that junior high is almost over. I've been dreading the last day of school all year, and, even though it's still do far away, it's closer than I realized. It's been a shock to me, and it has definitely given me something to think about. The year is almost over, and, for once, I don't want it to.