The AGS Experience
I remember the summer before my freshman year, waking up to my parents rushing me to get up a write out the application form that I needed to apply for AGS. The deadline was that day and we had all forgotten. I wasn't particularly hyped about AGS at the time. I didn't really know much about it, nor did It really make a difference to me if I was in it or not, but looking at myself now, I don't think I would be the same person if I decided against it that summer. It has been quite the experience though, good and bad. There have been great memories that I have made while being a part of AGS; ones that I won't be able to forget, but there have also been less great memories that have shaped the person that I am today. It was hard moving from a lower income middle school to a higher income high school. All of my friends went to other schools and I had to start fresh my freshman year because I didn't know anyone, nor did I have any friends. That was a struggle that I didn't intend on having, but because AGS is such a tight-kit community of people, we all knew each other and eventually found out who our close friends were from the people that we saw every single day. Being able to finish off this year and say that I made it through the four hardest years of my life in AGS will be a proud day for me. I never thought that I would be at this point where I'm a senior in high school about to go off to college because I've been a kid for so long, that I had this mind set that I would never get out of my kid years because that's all I've ever known and anything beyond that seems so surreal to me like that isn't where I'm supposed to be.