Skool Dayz

When I came back to the U.S. my parents decided that catholic school would be a better choice for me. So in 2001 I was enrolled into St. Catherine Of Genoa. It was hard for me to adjust because it was the 8th grade and everyone knew everyone. I was the true outsider. Anyway, after a while I made friends and fell into the American way of schooling. While I wasn't the smartest person in my graduating class, I did pretty well, even made student of the month a few times. The only significant thing that I can recall in my one year at St. Catherine was 9/11. I remember we were in religion class and for the first time ever, the city was QUIET. It was like everything was at a stand still, that was what first alerted me that something was wrong, I mean Brooklyn is NEVER quiet. Then the office started call students one by one to tell them that their parents would be coming to pick them up. When my dad came for me and my brother ( oh yea, we were going to the same school) he refused to tell us what was going on. When we got home, I turned on the TV and saw the second tower going down, at first I thought I was watching a movie, I saw people jumping out the towers, the the towers crumbling I couldn't believe it. That is something that I will never forget. I graduated from St. Catherine in 2002 and restarted my high school days. At first I was going to go to a public high school, till at the last moment my mother decided to get me into Catherine McAuley, an ALL GIRLS high school. McAuley wasn't half bad. In the beginning of my freshman year, I was in a group of friends that consisted of five girls, however as the years progressed, that group some how got smaller until I only had one single friend who I did everything with, Patricia. In high school, my name never left the honor roll list, it got to the point where it seemed as though my parents was so used to me being up there that they stopped caring when I would come home and say that I made the honor roll once again.I was in everything, Art club, math club, essay writing club, even became a cheerleader because it was something to do and it keep me away from home just a little while longer. I was inducted into the National Honor Society in my sophomore year of high school, that was a big accomplishment for me, for I was proving to myself that I just wasn't another pretty face. I cant say that I knew my classmates very well and I'm sure they would say the same about me, because I never took the time to know any of them, It was always just me and patty. Sometimes I wish that I had taken the time to know them better, seeing what amazing women some of them have turned out to be. I stayed out of trouble, kept my grades up, and made sure that I had enough extra curricular activities to make any college happy when I started filling out their applications. In fact the only time I came close to being in serious trouble at school was when I played a prank on this girl. I called her mother from the clinic I was volunteering at , and told her she was pregnant. It was harmless fun for me, but her mother came to the school  after they figured out who made the call. I was called to the principals office, I thought for sure my parents would be involved but nothing much came of it. In the ending of my junior year, I got a job at the Brooklyn Public Library as a teen peer mentor. I was part of a program called Teen Edge that aimed at having fun programs in the library that kids could attend and hopefully it would keep them off the streets and out of gangs. It was a very good job, I met a whole new group of friends, got the chance to express my self more, and I felt that I was really influencing some of the kids that came to the program. But even there the curse followed me, one day my boss Ralph came up to me and told me that he needed me to go with him to the Brownsville Library cause they needed help there. When we arrived to the destination, I say that we were no where near the library and he said that He wanted to take me out to dinner, catch a movie and the maybe go back to his house for drinks, I was only 18 at the time. I politely told him that we would have to do this some other time, because my brother was coming to the library and if he didn't see me he would tell my parents and I would get into a lot of trouble. He took me back to Linden and made me swear not to tell anyone, as soon as I got back into the library, I told my other supervisor what had happened. A week later, after a meeting with the higher heads of the library , he was fired. I resigned from the library in July of 2006, because I would be going away for college. So, as you can guess in 2006, I graduated from Catherine McAuley with an academic scholarship to Georgian Court University, another all girls school in Lakewood NJ, and it is here that my life took the ultimate plunge.