The day before she was so nervous! Her nervousness was so bad to the point that the day of, she asked me if we could change plans and have her just go to her school but it was already set so she kind of had to at that point.
When we were driving to school, she was freaking out and I had told her that she will be okay and that she's going to be with me, that it wasn't like she was going to wonder my school all by herself. When we got there, she said that when she comes to this school that she was going to get lost. She seemed so tiny in such a big school, yet she's taller than me?
As the day went, she would walk in front of me and so she would be lost, but that was her own fault for not following me. She believed some of the teachers were rude, nice, and scary and she was so shocked with how much homework/ classwork they give me and she realized that high school isn't as easy and that these teachers of today expect a lot from us. It's funny because I was looking for research for my blog and there was an article that caught my eye on washintonpost.com it talked about a teacher shadowing a student for 2 days and was shocked with what she learned and maybe teachers don't know what we go through, sadly. Their expectations are sometimes way too high.
She told me that her favorite part of the day was my third and fifth period because in third, it was just a really funny, productive day and in fifth period, I was learning Sign Language and she got to learn a little bit of that too.
I told my little sister that she should enjoy her middle school years because those were the best two years of my life and high school can be a pain, so she should enjoy the easy stuff while it lasts! She's growing up and it makes me emotional but I know she can handle it.
"Teacher Spends Two Days as a Student and Is Shocked at What She Learns." Washington Post. The Washington Post, n.d. Web. 15 Dec. 2014.
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