Emily Patrick's Freshman Year

This year was pretty fun and exciting for Emily Patrick, the incoming freshman at John Carroll High School. She learned a lot about herself and her new ways by coming to this school. Emily remembers here first week of school, she was confused and had no idea about anything. She ran through the halls hoping that there would be time for her to remember her locker combination when she would finally find it. She did not realize though that the lockers and classrooms were organized in a certain way. All of the one hundred lockers were on the first floor, the second hundreds on the second floor and the three hundred on the third floors. Once she found this, it was much easier for her to navigate her way around school. She also made many new friends this year. Because it was hard for Emily to try and make new friends, she pushed herself to reach out to others and try to learn about them. This was a very new kind of experience for her. She also was able to join the volleyball team. Emily was very skeptical and thought that she would not be able to make the team. She had never played before, and focused on practicing for a few hours a week. When she found that she has made the team, she was ecstatic. Emily has been swimming for ten years. She made the John Carroll swim team with ease and was able to participate in the championship meet. She was very lucky because there was only one other freshman picked to go.

Emily has always loved art. She likes to doodle during class or go home and sketch out a small picture just for fun, but when it came to drawing something for am application, that was something else. She sat and thought for a while to think of the two pieces that she would draw for her art class application. She decided to draw an underwater scene and a vase. Once she had finally finished, she sent in her work and hoped for the best. When she saw the letter sitting on the table, she ran to it with excitement and nervousness that forced her to rip open the perfectly sealed envelope. She had mad it! Emily would now be part of the art class at her high school, and later would find that she would make the Art Honors Society. Today when she looks at her work, you can see the satisfaction in her face of what she has become.

Emily knows how far she has come. She knows that she tried her hardest this year to receive first and second honors, and that she hopes for the same if not better next year. In years to come, more friends, fun, and learning is hopefully in her future. She has had a great first year and shows it in here day to day activities. Emily is more confident and enthusiastic about life and understands that the harder you work for something, the larger possibility you will be able to achieve it. She expresses to never let people tell you that you can’t reach your goals because if you really look forward and work towards them, you are able to achieve more goals then you ever could have imagined. Emily Patrick can hardly wait until next year as she watches her wonderful freshman year come to an end.