Trials & Tribulations of a 3% Child

Here I sit here, proud and cocky that I have all these "options" of schools to choose from for High School. I start going to visit schools and it felt rather weird when I went to some of the schools. When I arrived at some schools it was as if the faculty (certain teachers aka coaches) knew who I was, and seemed more anxious to convince me to come to their school. It felt like I was being recruited, which felt nice, but I thought that only happened with colleges. Other schools obviously had no idea who I was and just gave me the usual tour and weren't at all trying to be uberly convincing for someone to attend their school. All in all it was both fun and another learning lesson.

So even though I visited a number of schools surprisingly enough, the two main schools I wanted to go to which were Washington and Northeast were also the most convincing out of all the visits. Outside of the fact that the coaches knew me, their faculty and facilities just seemed better and would allow me to grow at a more advanced pace than the other schools. So I was settled on attending one of the two. Well I quickly found out that while I might want one thing, I'm still a minor and my parents aka my mother really decided what's what. So when we sat down to discuss which schools we were going to choose to officially apply to she was steadfast on Central, the so called smartest public school in Philadelphia. She wasn't trying to have me go to school in the Northeast due to the traveling. She reminded me of problems I previously had when I was younger, being at a school far away and transportation. But of course I figured I'm grown now, and fought against it profusely because Central to me was not known for the football team at all.

All said and done, I tried to go to any other football school to avoid Central but yet she posted an argument against everyone and proceeded to cross them off the list. I believe at the end of the night I was almost in tears thinking this woman is trying to ruin my life, all the top football schools were basically crossed off the list and the only options that remained either didn't have football or weren't really known for their football team. In spite of that, before turning in my paper to apply to the schools my mother agreed on, I circled Girls High as a joke, because I didn't seriously think that was even possible, but just for the laugh I circled it to officially apply to go there. This would be one of my you never know what's possible until you try moments I would experience.

I got called into the counselors office shortly after turning in my papers and it was one of the most serious but funniest discussions. They were seeing if I was truly interested in going to Girls High because it was somehow possible for me to attend. They wanted to understand why I wanted to go there and let me know that it would be possible for me to go there and play sports for Central. While I thought it was funny at first, I really ended up thinking hard on it. They gave me time to make my decision, and eventually I realized that I would be too distracted to do any work at all and I also assumed that the sports teams at Central wouldn't be so accepting of me seeing as how I would be attending Girls High. So I just totally gave up and went to Central of course scratching and fighting. The next two years of my life would be a huge and dramatic learning lesson for both my mother and I.