Senior Final

Signing up for this class as a junior I was unsure and a little hesitant, when I saw that it was creative writing I figured oh, no! I’ll be writing all the time. But I was wrong I boy was that a good surprise. I am glad that I finished this class with a smile and a good grade.

 This is quite weird that this is my last Tuesday as a high school student, my last day in this class. Which is kind of nerve wrecking because then I have to go into the real world and be a grown up. That is frightening in itself…Haley being a grown up? That doesn’t even really make sense does it? Ha-ha, no fellow classmates and anyone else who read this, the answer is no it doesn’t make sense; it seems like just yesterday I was in middle school or even 5^th grade and just moving here. This was an interesting class; it was cool reading about everyone’s life and there plans for after school. It was definitely better then actually having to write on paper every day. I also liked on Wednesdays when we would do the boy/girl activity that got the little mouse in our head spinning. This also caused laughter and a little competition. And of course the girls finished with the most points. This class was a success for me and I am glad that I took it, it taught me to focus on today and not stress on the future, which was always on my mind.

The advice I would give to students coming up would be, if you do not like writing then you probably shouldn’t take this class, although you will learn a lot of stuff about yourself that you didn’t know, and you will learn more things about your classmates. Even if you don’t like writing like most of the students in my class, it will prepare you for college, you have tons and tons essays and this will help you.

My favorite blog post was when we typed a sentence and then rotated seats to the right, and then the next person would write a sentence. It was the most exciting and interesting, but most of all we all got a good laugh out of it! Laughter is a good thing to have which we didn’t do often, because of all the typing. It was cool how one sentence could turn into a street race, or a fairytale ending in a house fire, or an alien invasion and that is how you can tell the different types of personalities in the class.

The most valuable thing I learned in class was that I can actually sit down and concentrate for more than 30 minutes. When I would sit down I would focus and try my best to finish the assignment with excellence which wouldn’t always happen because sometime I would draw a blank, but with the help of classmates they would give me ideas. Of course with the ones about myself they couldn’t help me but they could tell me what qualities I have and which ones I lack. I think that was another thing I learned about myself, and it was a good thing to hear from other people, people who see me every day. They have taught me to keep some things to myself, because I am to honest. Yea, that’s not always a bad thing but in some situations it is bad. I also believe it was a good thing to get criticism from my classmates to improve myself before I get thrown into the real world with millions of people.