Lit Paper.

 

This is the first paper that I wrote my sophomore year. I just got it back. That's not all. I got it back with a note that said 

Tori. I'm glad you have found this confidence. High School is not easy, believe me. But I'm glad you've got it figured out. You're a cool kid. Keep it up.

Lit Comp 5th hour

9 September 2012

Switching Schools

I had enough. I had never seen people be so cruel to each other in my life. I had always surrounded myself with people that would rather see a musical on a friday night rather than go to a football game, and i decided those are the people i should stick with. So i decided I should go to Topeka High with my two best friends so I could hang out with them everyday.

I had decided that I wanted to go to Topeka High after their enrollment was over, so i had to go to late enrollment. My mother cried the entire way there. I assumed Topeka High would be the same as Hayden, just bigger. But, I was mistaken. Late enrollment wasn’t exactly the classiest thing in the world. I thought my parents were too laid back. Let’s just say that I have nothing but respect for my parents now.

Anyway, I got to enrollment and had to go to the office because  I wasn’t registered.  The  office was hot and smelly. People that had been waiting for a long time would occasionally get angry and start yelling at the office ladies, but would constantly complain about the heat as if it was the office ladies’ fault. Nothing that I was used to.

I had to wait about forty-five minutes before my name was called to have a meeting with the principal like all new students had to do. Before they called my name, I stood in the corner alone while my mother took a phone call. I kept looking around the room and thinking to myself, I cannot believe I am doing this.

Also running through my head, was the reasons why I would be leaving Hayden. I have been doing theatre for a long time and I was convinced their theatre department was better for me. Also, my two best friends go there. But, most importantly, some of the people at Hayden. Not all of them. Just the ones who haven’t realized that no one is going to remember if you were a “loser” in high school. But they will definitely remember you if you’re mean to them and make stupid decisions. The ones that act like the stereotypical high school girls that you always hate in the movies.

But the longer I thought about it I had to wonder. Was I really going to switch schools because some girls decided they were better than me? Thats not the kind of person I am, or the kind of person I will ever be.

My mom came back in and I was extremely conflicted. I heard my name called by the overwhelmed office lady as she motioned to the principals office for the meeting. The principal explained the theatre and music programs. After, he asked about why I wanted to switch schools. I vaguely told him, and the interesting part was, he informed me that he started to send his kids to Most Pure Heart instead of public school.

My mother and I were directed into the cafeteria where the real enrollment was. The whole time in my head i was thinking,  When is a good time for me to tell my mom that i want to leave? But, I was convinced that going to Topeka High is what I wanted to do.

We went through the line where we were standing shoulder to shoulder with extremely sweaty people. We were in line to get a student I.D. and to pay the fee to attend the school. My mom wrote out the check and gave me a dirty look and when she did, I grabbed the check and said “Let’s go.”

I couldn't help sitting there and only being able to think of the two girls I called my best friends, the guy that I had the biggest crush on, and all the theatre dorks I had grown to love.

We walked out and the minute we got out of the building, I started sobbing. It was an experience  that I am glad I got to experience, but I would be perfectly fine if i never had to go through it again.

Now, I am a sophomore at Hayden High School and I am okay with that. I regret wanting to go to Topeka High because of the theatre program because I got a supporting lead in Hayden’s production of The Good Woman of Setzuan. I also really love singers this year.

I’m only in my second year of high school, and I have already accepted that no one will care once high school is over. Once college comes around, I’ll leave confidently knowing that I am the person I want to be. 

-Alto