A courageous clever child

About 2 years of age

Running around

Playing while sitting on the ground

Having the best of life

Learning new faces

New places

Loved my family

My relatives

Till one day all that was stolen

From me

When my parents decided to 

Leave our home country

To go live in a place

where we had nobody

My Dad, My Mom, my sister and I

And the beginning of a new life

New school, though quite terrifying, 

was alright

Big and wide, 

School in Miami 

(I do not recall the name of it)

Already started talking to someone when 

The teacher had told her to

Help me in some sort of way

A touch screen board

With white boards on both sides 

Markers, 

Couple of computers on my left 

Then again,

We had to move because

We lived in an apartment 

Which they told us to get out 

Of, they had to construct a new one

New, not really

Wasn’t that scared either

New school, yes

Was sad, I really liked those people

Couple weeks later…

Got used to the school, 

Clean and a bit massive than the other

The people, place

The people were 

People of all races, Black, white, brown, asian

Fairly the same

Years passed, when I finally graduated elementary school

My dad lost his job, he worked at a restaurant 

So, he decided that we move to a whole different state

  The weather, policies, place

Here, Oshkosh, WI

It was astonishing to see a state so green

The peace, and nice people I’ve never seen

I started 6th grade after summer break

So then I got in line and my homeroom teacher started

To give us a tour of the school, the school only had 2 floors

The sound of everyone’s feets tapping against the floor as we walked 

Around the school

I got a student planner something I never 

got in elementary school

Then in the near end of 6th grade 

The pandemic hit 

Depressing and frustrating to sit at home

Seeing millions of people die made me want to cry

A virus that could be caused from the people you love

Had to learn from a computer screen

Even the summer wasn’t entertaining 

Felt like there was nobody else in the world

Except for you and your family

Could never go outside, only 

To get necessary groceries or supplies

Then the school year started 

And we had to sit behind the screen 

Despite how impossible it was to work from home

The teachers made the classes very easy 

And I got straight A’s

Then we went to between home and school

Learning which is called hybrid learning

It was stupid, it wasn’t the same

And it definitely created more difficulty for the teachers

Switching between which students they were going to teach today

Thank god, that year was over

And everyone hoped for a better 2022 

Things did got better this year

But it was like you had to get to know everyone again

With the masks on faces, not knowing who could be sick

Couldn’t tell if someone was smiling or terrified

Everyone having the urge to take off their mask

Staying 6 feet away 

Not sharing food, water, paper, pencils, nothing

It felt like it was a new world 

where everyone was scared of each other

Could hardly hear anyone with masks on

Had to speak louder or even scream

The world felt slow

But in the middle to the end,

 things started to normalize

I made some new friends 

But also lost some

There was some drama that happened

At the end of 8th grade

With some of my friends 

Which I wasn’t really included in 

But knew what it was all about

So there were two sides and

All of my friends trusted me and told me their side of the story

Of course I couldn’t pick sides so I supported both

Or simply just listened to what they had to say

So maybe it could lighten their guilt

Yet, it didn’t end in good terms 

But I was still friends with both sides 

It was the start of freshman year in 

Oshkosh West high school 

Though I didn’t focus too much on making friends 

Cause I knew that if I wanted to get into colleges 

And my dream colleges, then I have to focus on my grades 

And friends just came to me naturally 

I didn’t have to try too hard to make any

And even if I didn’t,

I didn’t care much

I signed up for many clubs but didn’t join any

Except for the school newspaper

Which I only wrote two articles for

But you know freshman year went by fine

Though I regretted the decision to take a study hall

So to make up for that half credit I missed

I decided to take creative writing during the summer

And here I am completing an autobiography for 

An assignment for creative writing