Coping Change

In this last year I had to cope with many changes for example; my parents separating, my school and other non important things. The one I am going to talk about is my school. I went to high school at Emporia High School. My freshman year went well, because I was involved in soccer and I was part of a club called Latinos Unidos. My sophomore year went kind of down hill from there. I met new friends and started to hang out with kids that I shouldn't have. I started to not show up at school and my grades began to fall. I also stop playing soccer and that was my life growing up. My junior year was a little better because I started showing up at school a little more but the principal was on my case. my senior year is were it went down hill. My grades were really good starting out but the principal wouldn't leave me alone. My seminar teacher was one of the only teachers that helped me. He was the only one that believed in me and it felt good that some one did but I couldn't handle the principal always on my case so I dropped out of school to make it easier on my principal and maybe a little easier on me. I made the decision to just work a full time job and make more money to leave Emporia. At seventeen i had already moved out of my parents place because of things with my dad. It took me a year to realize that I was throwing my life away just living from pay check to pay check, and barely making ends meet. By nineteen I realized I was almost turning twenty, and it felt like I couldn't go back to school because I had spent so much time away. It felt like I had forgotten every thing that I had learned at school. I had really great friends that told me other wise, and told me that I needed to at least to go get my GED, so I tried it and I actually passed. For the first time in a long time I felt most proud of my self, and if I could do that it made me feel I could do anything if I put my mind to it. So, now I am trying this college thing and I'm thinking it's going pretty well. It's difficult going from not going to school and just getting up and going every morning. I find myself struggling to even get up and do my homework sometimes. I think it will get easier when i get use to it.In alot of ways college is different from high school. One difference is that you make the choice to go, and if you don't want to then you don't have to but it will hurt you in the long run.