In the sixth grade I had move from Bridgeport,
Connecticut to Huntington (Shelton), Connecticut. It was one of the nerve
wrecking things I had to do. I went to a magnet school that was so diverse. I
loved my school, had my group of friends. My older brother went there his
friends were my friends so this was my home, my second family. So having to
leave was something I wasn’t ready for. Coming into the Shelton school system I
noticed on the first day this school was predominantly white, something I wasn’t
use to. Also sixth grade was the grade of the cliques. Everywhere there was a
cliques to the mature popular girls to the kids that were still trying to be
just kids. At this age I was 12 I was seeing girls already wearing makeup
shopping at Hollister and Abercrombie. I didn’t know what those stores were I
just wore whatever my mother bought me. I felt like an outcast. I wish I can
say everything gotten way better the next year going into intermediate school
still was all the same except more cliques. When high school rolled around made
grade had the worst amount of cliques and I was back into a school system with
my bother that was a senior. His grade had no cliques everybody just got along.
From freshman year to junior year I still had trouble trying to fit in. But
when senior year came around something change in me I was done trying to fit in
wore funky outfits since I was obsessed with trends and I stop caring that I was
fitting in because the whole time I had my family to have my back and all my
cousins who were in the end my true best friends. When I applied to southern I can
say it wasn’t my first choice because of a lot of kids in my town go here. But I
happy I came I feel like I am at home just how it was when I was in Bridgeport.
Its diverse and everybody is friendly. I am not trying to fit in I am being
myself and making so many friendship by that.
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