During Camp Bowie {freshman orientation}, a teacher pointed out that Bowie doesn't have block schedule nor will it have block schedule until well into the future. Hah PSYCH! After my freshman year, Bowie got block schedule. I remember the first week of my sophomore year distinctly. Everyone was running around clueless: teachers, students, and even faculty. I was not prepared to sit in an hour and a half class the first day back from school especially after not having any prior experience to block schedule.
I always tell my fellow seniors that every year we have been at Bowie there has been some drastic change with the schedule. Like I said, my freshman year there was no block schedule, sophomore year there was block schedule, last year Bowie got rid of advisory on late start days and added 4 hour blocks to testing schedules, and this year, Bowie added FIT. A time where you can supposedly catch up on all your school work. Yeah, you're right Bowie, I can makeup a test I was absent for in half an hour.
But the biggest adjustment in high school was not making JV volleyball my sophomore year. I was devastated. Volleyball was my favorite sport, I had just made a club team for the third year in a row, but I felt like I was not good enough. Fortunately for me, hardly anyone had a Twitter around that time of me being cut. So, I would ignore everything and everyone someone would post on Facebook and just rant on and on on Twitter. {Thank goodness I discovered blogging since then} But after three years of not playing school sports, I am proud to say it has changed me. From not being in the volleyball class, I have met people who I wouldn't have probably even met. From not staying after school for practices and games, let me focus on schoolwork and get my GPA and ranking up. Being an athlete outside of school helped me priortize my time between practices and homework and I am so thankful for that. Because, oh man, it would be migraine central. Also, because of not making volleyball, I got to get into journalism; something I have been dreaming of doing since middle school.
In school I have met so many different people. Like I said prior, there are four kinds of people in high school: the people you do know, the people you know of, the people who you don't know at all, and the people you used to know. Since Bowie is so large, it is impossible to know everyone. {I once had a teacher my sophomore year who didn't know my name until the last six weeks of the school year} If I could go through my entire yearbook and just list these people into these categories, I totally would. Can you imagine how big the list, though? Over 3000 students and perhaps not even divided equally into four sectors. Crrraaazzyyy! To say my friend group hasn't changed all through out high school isn't a complete lie, however it's mostly stayed consistent. The very beginning of my freshman year, I'd alternate between eating with my volleyball friends {since volleyball was the period before lunch} to eating with the people I ate with in middle school. When I felt a little distant from my middle school friends, I started eating with my volleyball friends; Erika and Kendall, full time. By the end of the school year, I got to eating with {some} of the people I am still friends with. :)
High school may have been a long, plot twisting journey, but I am glad it was a long, plot twisting journey because if it wasn't I wouldn't be who I am today or who I would want to be in the future. Plus, those people who tell you high school is the four best years of your life, they aren't kidding 'bout one thing: it goes by fast.
First day Freshman year 2010
First day Senior year 2013
xoxo
andie :)
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