7th Grade reflection

The 7th grade was a doozy.  I got more work, work got harder, and I was confused about life.  The 7th grade was one of my greatest challenges.  Band, Spanish, and English were difficult along with others at times.  

I needed to have a class that I needed to study and practice for to get results. That class for me was Spanish.  Spanish was a class I constantly got frustrated in and had to study for.  I have a mind that is built for math and science.  I HATE language arts and other things along those lines.  In 7th grade, I was doing 8th grade reading.  I loved my other classes though because they were all either easy like social studies and audio/visual content or fun like math, science, band, and principles of audio/visual content.  Another thing about 7th grade I experienced was kids being kids which means kids being annoying.  I don’t like people who are disruptive and lack discipline.  

Extracurricular activities are fun and help with practice.  While in 7th grade I was in chess club, card games club, LOTC drill team, band, ACE, and encounters (optional) tutorials.  The chess club was fun because I love strategy games. I like card game clubs because I am addicted to turn-based strategy card games.  I enjoyed the band because the sound of a symphony playing was so nice and therapeutic. I did not like ACE because it was made for elementary schoolers and I thought it was boring.  Encounters were alright because I could listen to music and just work.  LOTC was confusing, but I loved the marching and discipline parts of it.  Also, I was good at LOTC. I was the commander (the highest rank I could achieve),  but I did not like the other kids who did not care about LOTC and just wanted to be with their friends and disrupt practice.  The worst part is that I am responsible for teaching and leading these kids.

I have grown this year because I used to have outbursts in class, but I don’t do that anymore.  Also, I have realized what I did not like about myself and how to change them.  The 7th grade was an experience that showed me that I needed to live life and have a childhood before growing up.  Right now I feel like I’m a 72-year-old man in a boy’s body.