Peter+K

My high school life

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“ Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.” –Jenny Diski I remember there used to be a time when high school was little more than a fantasy, a thought, an unreachable idea. I remember looking at high school students, thinking that there would probably never be a day when I become like them. Four years ago, in the fall of the year 2005, the impossible happened and I became a high school student. After spending most of my childhood in Taiwan, Green Hope was not the high school that I ever envisioned myself attending. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to spend my freshmen year of high school in an elementary school or, for that matter, with non-Asian people speaking English instead of Chinese. Though I cannot say that I ever completely assimilated into the American culture, I was glad to meet people that helped me adjust to American high school life. During my underclassman days, I became increasingly involved in my church youth group and met people who would later become my closest friends throughout the rest of high school. In school, I was in several clubs, including Science Olympiad, which was originally a club that I did not expect to get too into but would gradually become more important over the years, especially after the second year when we started winning medals and making it to the state competition. After sophomore year, just when I began to think high school isn’t all that bad, junior year hit hard. Junior year was no doubt the most stressful year of high school for me. The sheer workload from APs, SAT prep, and extracurricular activities left little room for anything else. Now that Senior year is coming to an end, the past four years seem almost unrealistic, like a dream, a fantasy, a thought, an idea. Four years after that fall way back in 2005, I am leaving Green Hope High School and starting a new chapter in life.