story time

So I wasn't here yesterday to get the full explanation of what our assignment is for the week. I got the story thing, but I'm not 100% sure. So I'll give it a go..... kind of taking Becky's idea about high school.
This year is my senior year of high school, looking back I think that I have spent all four years trying to fit in and just find a good group of friends, and find myself I guess you could say. Mind you that this isn't an easy task when you have been to three different schools, not knowing anyone. I would find that I would just start to fit in at a school, and start making some friends, when I would have to switch for some reason or another and then have to repeat that cycle yet again. Some of the friends I had made I kept as a friend, but others I just lost contact with, it was hard. I always try to be an outgoing person, and I try to go up to people, and I try to make friends, but that doesn't always work. Usually when I would start at a school, I would have made at least one friend relatively quickly and then the rest would sort of just fall into place. I definitely wasn't a very attractive person at the start of my high school career, freshman year I had braces, and had just ditched the glasses that I had all of middle school, and I had always had super long hair, all the way down my back, and I didn't always know what to do with all that hair, I was a mess. Sophomore year, no more braces, but I still had the terribly long hair, same with junior year. Half way through my junior year, I felt that I needed a change, so i put my hair up, and cut it all off, it was a little past my shoulders, first I was happy about it, but then I wasnt so sure. I think I'm used to it now.
Back to the friends situation, I didn't always know what to do to fit in, so at the start of high school, I started getting invited to parties, and to go places with people, it made me feel like I actually had friends. Looking back I kind of regret it, I wish I would have said no, but I wanted to fit in, and my parents never pushed me to stay home, they never really cared where I was, as long as I got to school the next day. I basically had no restrictions, I was free to do what I want, and at 14, 15, 16 years old, this is no good. Granted I met a lot of new people, made some new friends, and gained cool points with the friends I had, my grades started to slip, I was failing classes, ditching school, eventually not going at all. This was bad for everyone, I had to spend basically my entire summer and nights of my sophomore and junior years of high school going to school, after the normal seven hour day of school was done. School became my life, I'm not too upset about it, it kind of kept me out of trouble, and now I can actually finish school a little early, but still, if I had actually gone to school then and done the work and passed classes back then I would have had more time to make even more friends, and do what I wanted to.