autobiography chapter 3

Chapter 3 -Middle school

The 6th grade my class was the guinea pig for the eight block system for middle school, I am so glad they decided to keep it. Middle school dances were a new fun social event that was enjoyed for a while. Most of us lived for the dress up days when every one pulled out all the stops on the uniqueness. It was crazy the combination people would come up with for wacky day or other dress up days.

During the 7th grade, I was pulled out of class one day in March because my grandpa had died. I was devastated. I was depressed for weeks although it brought some long distance cousins back to see us, which I have not seen since then.

In the summer that we became eighth graders, Joshua Lewis Lamb died on June 13, 1997. It affected me greatly because only the day before I had seen him at the fair. When I found out it was true I could not stop crying. My grandma took me to the funeral, and I sat by myself while she waited in the car. I cried the entire service. Afterwards when school started a friend gave me a tape that had several songs on them that made me think of Josh. They have helped me remember him and all the fun times that we had at the dances and the past times of elementary, the shenanigans he pulled and what he wrote in my yearbook always made me smile until he died. Now it brings tinges of regret, sadness, and the fact that I cared for him.