Reflection on highschool

I was both nervous and excited when I was in 8th grade about to go into high school. It is strange thinking back on that time because it does not feel like that long ago. I remember going to an informational meeting in our library and some kids from Millbrook came in and talked to us about their experience in high school. I had to decide the different classes that I was going to take, I was worried about the classwork because I had heard that it was a lot harder than middle school, and I was worried about how large the school was. But I remember still being excited about leaving middle school and going to high school.  

When They talked about how fast the experience and now I see exactly what they mean. I can still remember most of my first days here and my initial impression of the school. I remember going into your class (Mrs, Genesky) and introducing ourselves and saying something that made us unique. I remember having to go to lunch on the first day and finding a table to sit at. I have a bunch of other memories from freshman year that do not feel like they occurred very long ago, yet four years is a long time, and thinking back I can see how much I have changed. 

 During a lot of my time here I wanted to be  out of highschool but seeing as how now that it is actually almost over I feel like I will miss a lot of things about it. Mainly the other people that I go to school with. I have gone to school with many of the same people since elementary school and some since preschool. It is going to feel weird going our separate ways as I have always been used to having them around. 

Now that I am almost done with high school I feel like I am in a similar situation to when I was in 8th grade, except this time I am going to college. I am going to have to deal with many of the same things I had to deal with going to a new place and meeting new people,except this time It is on a much larger scale. I am also thinking about how in four more years I will be in the same position I am in now yet I will be graduating school and will have to work and take care of myself, which is an even crazier thought than going to college, but I will probably be prepared for it when the time comes as I feel pretty prepared for college now. 

All in all I enjoyed my time in high school and have changed a lot while I am here. I look forward to going to college and doing the same there. It is a strange feeling looking back on a chapter of your life that is almost over and thinking about how fast it went by.

I can make out the words brochure on the book, and the library of congress stamp is on all of the pages. His hand writing seems kind of sloppy and his lines are slanted. You can see Lincoln on one of the pages, he was very fond of Lincoln. Since he was very fond of Lincoln and his ideals you can tell he was an advocate for equality among all people. He also strongly supported the union side in the civil war, as he wanted to end slavery. He also compares the union to a ship. One of the other annotations said that other great poets and philosophers used that metaphor often. So it is likely that he had read many other philosophers works. I also think it is cool how strongly he felt about american success. It said that he thought the fate of the world relied on the success or failure of the american democracy. The next page was a portrait of himself. It said he did not draw or doodle so it was most likely drawn by someone else. It was also funny how they put that it was fitting for someone whose main subject was himself. The last picture in the notebook is also very interesting, and i do not really know what to make of it.

He had complex views on the civil war and referenced them in a metaphor to religion, kind of like what he did with the metaphor of america and a ship. It is also interesting that this was a turbulent time in his life as well as the country. When he released Leaves of Grass the book was disliked across the nation and since it was the start of the civil war many printing companies were going out of business and were unable to publish his books. Overall I think it is interesting to see his thoughts come from things that he actually wrote a long time ago.