An Essay

 

By: Allyson Jane Cruz

 

It’s been four years stay in San Rafael National Trade School. Ever since grade 7, I am studying here. I’ve seen every single change, every improvement, and every achievement in our school.

 

SRNTS witness how an elementary student transforms into a responsible high school student. It helps me reform and build myself. This school saw my hardships and success. This school change me and love me wholeheartedly.

 

In my four years stay, I’ve learned these 7 things:

 

1. Procrastination is real. High school is much harder and much more activities to do. Because of the difficulties in assignments, activities, and projects, you tend to procrastinate your responsibilities. You delay your activities for other things such as using social media.

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2. Be-YOU-tiful. Each of us is unique in our very own ways. We are born different from others. Don’t ever try to copy someone or even try to change yourself for others to like you.

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3. The Value of Friendship. We are not collecting friends instead, we are finding life-companion. Don’t wish to have many friends, wish to have few friends but true. Love your friends as if they are your greatest treasure.

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4. Balance of happiness and study. It is fun being at high school but learns how to focus and prioritize your studies. Have fun and have a good balance of fun and studies.

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5. Love Hurts. Commonly, most of the relationships in high school end with high school also. The pain will knock on you and might destroy your focus. Just wait for the right time for love and focus on studying.

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6. Goodbyes are painful. It is hard to bid goodbye to the things and person you love. It is fun in high school but the time will come that you will graduate and you have to say goodbye to your beloved school and friends. It is really hard to leave and to tell goodbye.

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7. High school is the best. The life of a teenager starts with high school. Every first’s start with it; the first heartbreak, the cutting class, the first crush, and many first times in life. High school is the first and the best.

 

I hope that I could stay forever in high school. Months from now, I will graduate and I will finally say goodbye to everything. It is hard but it is the reality. I just want to say thank you for every lesson, happiness, success, failures, and heartbreak I’ve been through those years. Thank you San Rafael National Trade School, you mold me into a better one.

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