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=__//** Freshman English finals **//__=

High school is fun, for the most part. I have more or less survived the first semester. I thought it would be easy. Like always, I was wrong. It started out easy enough. It gradually got harder. Most kids had to worry about making new friends, but I had that taken care of during summer. I had to take a summer math class here at foothill, so I just made my friends there. Plus I knew kids from middle school who were going here. The one and only problem is my cousin goes here. Every day I have to deal with him. His name is Don Rojo, and he like to play stupid jokes on me. It sucks!

Most kids say foothill is a school for brainy kids. I don’t fit that bill. Most of my classes are easy & fun. I start my days off in EDA. This class is a perfect way to start the day. Its probly the most easy and fun class there is. We do stuff like check Zangle and make brochures. My teacher is Mrs. Faulconer. Next I have either Geography or English. The days I have geography are usually good days. My teacher is Mrs. Ferris makes our class fun with raffles. We watch educational movies and stuff like that. Fifth period I have Mrs. Rocca for math. It’s a pretty straight forward class. Sixth I have biology, the worst of all classes. It is boring because all we do is take notes and listen to our teacher drone on about random things like taste buds. Last I have P.E. It's hard and fun at the same time. The sprints are hard. The upside is that we go to the parks on Fridays.

Foothill has a project for ninth graders called the "Nineth Grade Project". You get choose a biome and an animal in that biome. Then you choose an environmental issue that affects the animal and biome. For example, I chose the Temperate Forests in Central Asia as my biome. My animal was the Snow Leopard, and my issue was Logging. The hardest part of the whole project for me was the research. That was because the Snow Leopard is such a rare animal and I like to procrastinate. Over all it is not as hard as people think. As long as you turn in everything on time and you look up 50%of the time, then you are okay.

I have made lots of new friends. More friends than I expected. Most kids here at foothill are nice, sometimes too nice. It’s creepy. I made friends like Jimmy and Paul who are nice, and friends like Jake withers, which can be really annoying. Paul and Jimmy are twins. We go to the same church and we hang out with each other at lunch. I have EDA with Paul and Geography with Jimmy. Jake withers is annoying. He follows me around and asks stupid questions. Usually he hangs out with other kids, thank the lord. I have known him since 8th grade. I never really talked to him until the end of the year. We had a beach trip with the school and we hung out together. We were not that good of friends.

Jake Woods Is a good friend that I have known him since I first moved here. I met him at balboa in 7th grade. We hung out with the same group of kids. When middle school ended, I could not wait until high school. I knew he was going to come here because he has a family member that goes here. I was really glad. That was one kid I would know. When I got here on the first day, there were more kids than Jake that I knew, like Stefan. That’s the one thing most kids worry about is having friends in the high school they are going to. So that’s the thing I didn't have to worry about.

My cousin comes here. His name is Don Rojo. He can be annoying sometimes, but he is pretty cool when we hang out. My other cousin’s name is Candace. She is maybe an inch smaller than me. She is 20 and is going to college at University of Montana. The both play the saxophone. My aunt and uncle are pretty cool. They are nice and let me do anything I want as long as it is reasonable… usually.