My Final Essay

   Hi my name is Samantha Nicole Marquez, I am 16 years old and I am a sophomore at Atrisco Heritage Academy High School. My best friends are Irma, Marissa, and Mariah. I have known Irma since I was in the 3rd grade. She now has a little boy named Jovanny; he will be 6 months in the first of June. I have known Mariah since the 6th grade. Mariah and I have been thru a lot in middle school we would be real close then we would hate each other, but now were as close as can be! And last but not least Marissa, I met Marissa at the beginning of my sophomore year. We have gotten so close to each other, we tell each other everything! We are always together and we always know how to have fun! In this essay I will be telling you some of the different things I learned and some things I have been thru at this school.

 I came from El Paso. El Paso is so different compared to over here in Albuquerque. Some El Paso schools are trashed and some are in real good condition, depending on what side of town you’re on. All if my family lived in the lower valley part of El Paso. All my Tia’s and Tio’s went to a high school called Riverside. I some from a family that struggles a lot! Every family has hard times but it almost seemed like my family was always going thru a hard time. My mom, my sister and I lived at my grammas house where my Tia and her 3 kids lived at so there were 8 people living in one small house. You could only imagine how crowded it was. My cousins were always pushing me to do well in school. But once we moved out here to Albuquerque a didn’t care of what my grades were. I slacked off a lot; I was hanging out with the wrong people. I would get in trouble and I never realized how much I was hurting myself and my mom. I just didn’t care.

 I have made a big improvement on my grades and how I act towards school. I care about my grades because I don’t want to be held back a year just cause I wanted to go back to El Paso and be with my cousins. The only way I could go back to El Paso and be with my cousins is if I do well in school and get good grades. I might not have straight A’s but one day I will. I have learned that no matter what you’re always going to have to work for what you want. If you do badly in school just because you don’t care you’re probably going to end up working at some cheap place that pays you 6 dollars an hour. So just do well in school and it will help you later in the feature.

 This year as a sophomore I have learned many different things. I have learned that you’re always going to make new friends so it is ok to lose a couple. I lost a friend this year but it didn’t bother me because I knew that she wasn’t a true friend and I made 2 new friends and they are much better friends then that other one was. My friends and I have been thru a lot together. When someone needs help or if one of us is sad we all knew how to make everything better. We all had our ups and downs and the little fights that last like 10 minutes but we make up and everything goes back to normal.

 I have 2 more years left of high school I’m going to make the best if it and not let anything stop me from what I want to do!