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Dear Mr. Sheehy

            A good reflection of me year would start off with where I came from. I came from a small little town called Douglas located in the state of Wyoming. Not many people have heard of this town and that being said you know that is small enough for the people who live there no every little detail about everyone. At the start of the year over there I was having a good time had some friends and was living the good life. But later on as the school year progressed I had a lot of things I had to deal with, troubles with school, troubles with the people in the school, and my driving was getting me in trouble. So I decided I needed a change to hopefully better my life. And I had already knew about
Rapid City because I have visited me grandparents here many many time. So I thought about it, looked around at the school and did all the stuff someone moving would have to do all by myself before coming to talk to my parents about my troubles. So I think by doing that I have grown up in a sense that I did all these big choices by myself with no help from anyone. And I think that gave me a big confidence booster from what I have had living in Douglas, a place where I wasn’t really wanted.

            So now I live here and couldn’t be more happy. I love life over here its giving me so many more opportunities to better myself. It’s giving me the chance to go to a big place where I don’t know everybody and they all don’t know me so it gave me a chance to meet to people. And to my surprise I actually feel accepted here. They have a soccer program witch is a huge part of my life and I couldn’t be any happier. I have made a bunch of new friends I would have never believed could have happened, and I got myself and amazing girlfriend. Overall I think I have learned as much this year as I have my entire life moving to this city. Most people hate this city but for me it’s a vacation I get to live in until I decided to better myself even more. Some big influences on me have really been the teachers at this school. In Douglas it was a name game, if you didn’t have the right last name you were nothing in that school. And over here I think there are so many kids that teachers can’t really pick favorites just because of the variety of people this school have to offer. And they give each student the chance to make them selves better and if the student can’t do it by them self the teachers here would push and push just so the student could see what they are really capable of. The most challenging thing I have faced this year was probably the troubles I had at my old school. I never got along with hardly anyone, I was always getting fights started with my just because I didn’t hang out with the right people or didn’t do the cool things everyone else was doing. I guess you could say I was kind of the out cast of the school. And in a small school like that, that’s the last place you want to be but I some how found that place and could not get away from it no matter what I did. But then I came here and just felt like this is where I should have been my whole high school. I feel accepted here by not only the teachers but most students as well and knowing that has giving me a huge confidence booster and I have done way more here then anyone of the kids at my old school could even imagine.

            I mean believe me it takes a lot of guts to come from a school with maybe 700 kids total to walk in a building where there are 2200 plus. That’s a huge change and I’m not going to lie I was a very shy self councius kid and for me to do something this extreme I think has made me stronger as a person and as an individual. Over all I think the progress I have made this year is tremendous. I didn’t like where I came from almost to the point where I just couldn’t take it anymore, and now I love life and wouldn’t change things no matter what had happened in the past I’m loving life and couldn’t be any happier I got up the nerve to change my life not only for the better but I think its going to help me later on in life knowing im capable of doing what most kids from a small town would not be able to handle.