What I'm Looking Forward to Next Year

This week's prompt is about what you are excited about or hesitant about next school year. Since I'm not in school, I'm going to reflect on what it was like for me, moving from 6th grade to 7th grade, way back when.

When I was in sixth grade I went to an elementary school. All of us did back then where I grew up. Elementary schools were grades K-6. Junior highs were grades 7-9, and high schools were grades 10-12, that is right up until I left high school, and after that year, the freshmen (9th graders) moved up to the high school.

Anyhow, I was leaving sixth grade to go to junior high. It was kind of scary and kind of exciting too. We only had two junior highs in our town, one where all the kids went to that lived more or less on the south side of town, and another where those that lived on the north side of town went. We didn't have financial differences in our town locations, like there are in some town, where one area is poorer, we were all just sprawled out.

I was excited because all my friends from my school were going to the junior high. I was also going to be there with some kids that I'd made friends with in summer camp at the YMCA. I loved summer camp there each year!

I was also highly involved in band, and looking forward to playing with the new teacher and meeting new kids. I played the clarinet (no, that's not me).....

and later the bassoon.

I even tried out and played the bari sax for awhile.

I was really looking forward to being able to store my things in a locker. So different than having a desk!


(Okay, that's not me either....just a stock photo.) But, one of the fears we all had was being a little guy on campus and getting shoved into a locker. This photo reminds me of that! It didn't ever happen to me, whew...but it was still a fear!

I got moved up to a higher math class, prealgebra, which really help my passion for math grow.
Do you like math? I was also in Math Counts, a competitive math program that we have here at our school too.

I ended up really loving junior high, making new friends, listening to great new music (that would be after school with my friends), attending dances, and going to Disneyland for the first time. I went with my best friend, her mom, and two other friends.

Junior high (for you, middle school) was such a great social time for me. It had its hard moments as well as its fun ones.


What are you looking forward to next year in whatever grade you'll be in?