All Missed Opportunities

When you’re in High School, everything in life seems impossible and limitless. You have one goal or many, but none of those compare to the first one. You got to pass that obstacle before starting a new one. You cannot give up and not see the result. The results may surprise you. I know mines did; however, I wasn’t ready. Well, that is how I interpreted it. I came so close yet took two steps backward. Why? For me, this isn’t very easy. I had several emotions swirl around within me back then. During my last year in high school, I wanted to take an easy class. My GPA was in good standing. I did not want that to drop all of a sudden. My English teacher was a handful and a primadonna.

My classmates curse her name under their breath. I sometimes wanted to scream. She was not the best human to be around; however, she was a good teacher. The mid-term and senior project was overkill. She made us do one thousand points scoring assignments. The rubric did not even offer enough points to reach one thousand. We all had to do twenty-eight tasks out of thirty jobs given before the mid-term began. The class had to write up a twenty-page double-space term paper in the finals. About what you want to do when you’re an adult. That was fine; however, I was not computer savvy.

I struggle with doing my term paper.

(sorry, I had to rant a little. I understood my English teacher was preparing us for college, but I felt she was going too far)

Out of all my classes, there was one place I felt relaxed and myself.

Yes, I was in a band class or, more specifically, a school choir. I am not much of a singer; nevertheless, I can fake it to make it. The music teacher places my voice in the Altos section. I was surprised because I thought I was a soprano. Another female student who does sing in a choir at her church was put with the sopranos — Whereas here, she was placed in the Alto-Sopranos.

Suppose you are not a music person or have taken a class. The difference between an Alto and Soprano is the pitch. When they sing, their tone is high for a Soprano, like Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, and Lady Gaga. When Altos sing, their pitch is low, like Miley Cyrus, Adele, and Lorde. They do…

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