Elementary school has proved to be the first step to the education of many kids because of its long and enrichment path into a workforce. Some people don’t see this as much and others idolize it as the best one out of the world. In my case I found it kind of special because it changed from old to new, and I guess changing me with it. The essence of changing schools has a great effect on everyone whether big or small.
I started my Kindergarten year in Aoy Elementary School here at El Paso Texas. It was built on two city blocks and it was 60 years old. The meaningless situation of the school did not matter to me since the reminders of mom turn out to be as simple as; just making friends, have fun, and to wait for her to pick me up when the bell rang. Then second year arrive, just like in a blink of an eye, and I notice something going on across the street while I my friends and I played outside during P.E. class, some builders with big bulldozers and cranes building something. As time went on the building became big. Big enough to fit my little school into it including the library which was the largest building in my elementary.
While my brother who remained in an intermediate school transitioned 5th I transition to 3rd. He had some news that his school would close down because of insufficient funds. Thiscould only mean one thing: merging of schools. Some students of my brother’s school where heading for the other elementary school in the same district and the others would head to my elementary school. “But how?” I asked myself, “My elementary school is way too small, even though it only had 4 different grades now we had to add two more to this small school”. Soon the “how” question would answered itself as the new building now finished was revealed as “Aoy Elementary School”, a new and more modern version of my old school.
In the beginning of 3rd grade I saw the interior of what would be my new elementary school for the next two years. Now that I see it, I changed not as much like a brand new school but something in me changed. Nobody escapes his past; neither did this new school, as right across from it still remains the biggest building of the old school, the library, as a living prove of its past, but is now used as storage. Schools form a nice memory in your life and sometimes they change you or the set you towards the person you would grow up to.
Yeah, changing schools is one of the most radical feelings you experience as a student. I would've liked to know more about how you adapted to a new school, but I suppose that's for another time. Interesting story.
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