Zachary Gray
Tara Reynolds
English 100
10/25/2011
Time Fly’s by When You’re Having Fun
Time sure does go by awful fast! I can remember when I was still in kindergarten; drinking orange juice and cookies, playing at recess, nap time, having your own little cubby hole, bringing your toys in for show and tell, playing heads up seven up when it’s raining outside, making arts and crafts to take home to your parents and more. Then I realized the moment I’ve been waiting for has arrived. All the pain, agony, struggling, and time I’ve wasted away in my life is about to pay off. It was the beginning of my senior year in high school.
Life was taking on a whole new shape. One more year to go and I’ll be out of here. Your senior year so much is going on, and inside yourself you feel this warm sensation. Because you realize that your at the top of the hill. With this new feeling of life I told my self that I was going to do every senior activity and anything else I could do to make it the best year of school I would ever have.
As I was getting ready for the first day of school had me nervous and excited at the same time. With butterflies in my stomach the whole week before, I was mostly worried about how our senior t-shirts were going to look like. Come Monday morning I had been awake since 4 a.m. from hanging signs on the side of the road for the incoming freshmen. Later I fount me and the rest of the senior class eating breakfast at the huddle house before school. As I would walk through the hallways all I could do is reminiscence back to the first day of freshman year and how things have changed since then. From the classes to my friends.
One of the biggest distractions in my life was sports. Baseball was a big part of my life at the time and mandatory workouts were going to start during the fall. This year was a highly anticipated year for our baseball program. We were number one in 13th region and picked to win. We had high hopes of going to state and...