Choose a positive attitude by Janice Hall

Entering high school was exciting and interesting. I thought my 9th grade year was going to be easy, and as my high school years go on it would get harder. I guess I thought wrong.
My first semester of 9th grade year was tough. I was playing around a lot like instead of me doing work I would go throw paper balls at people or either slap people on the back of their head and also wasn’t doing my work I wasn’t taking it serious at all. I thought I was gone catch up at the end but I didn’t because everything was coming down on me at once. I passed all my classes, but with all C’s and I regret these C’s now because it may my GPA low. I knew if I was focusing and not goofing off I would pass theses classes with either A or B. I wanted this type of grades because when I got in the 12th grade my GPA was not high and it was no way I could of got my GPA up because of those C’s.
To these upcoming freshmen’s I should warn you all now: come into high school with a positive attitude that you can do your best no matter what. Don’t let people keep you from getting your education or stay focused in school. I remember when I was in 9th grade and I let this girl get to me off focused everyday in class and never did do my work fell all my tests. Like we use to just come to class and just throw paper balls at people heads and did what we wanted to do. I was just doing because she was doing and she would start calling me a “Punk” if I didn’t do the things she didn’t do. My teacher knew I was a smart little girl so the teacher sat me to the side and told me that I need to get it together or either I am going to fail the class. So I realize that I was failing my class at the end of the semester and I had failed the Spanish class. I had to retake it over the class in summer school.
The one thing that I would say for you freshmen’s is that you all do not want to go to summer school. Summer school is really boring it takes up have of your summer. The days that you go to summer school you really can’t do nothing after school because you be so tired and wore out that you can’t do anything. You be so tired because how long you are there and how much work they give you and you have to take a test every week over what you learn that hold week. I know because I have been there and done it and the things I just describe that are how it was and how I felt about the situation.
So to the upcoming freshman’s I pray for you all good luck that you all freshman’s come in with a good attitude and not with a whatever attitude. Make sure you all do your work and stay focused no matter what other people doing. Just do the things that gone to help you all succeed in life.