The Train

             We've all waited at the railroad tracks for the train to go by, and it seems like it takes forever! Especially if we’re in a hurry to get somewhere! The other day, we sat at the railroad tracks for what seemed like almost 20 minutes.

            As I sat there waiting, I thought, this is what school feels like. It starts out fun in the beginning when you count how many engines are pulling the train cars, but towards the middle it’s like a repeated pattern of the same train cars, just in different order. Then, when the train is almost at the end, we get excited and most of the time we say, “Finally!”

            The train of our education is almost at the end, and I’m at the excitement point and ready to say finally. In kindergarten, we met our first teacher and we were excited to be in school. I don’t think I missed one day of school until I was in sixth grade, now look at me! But as we approached the middle of the train (Jr. High), school started to bore us. In Jr. High I did get the chance to meet all of you wonderful people, but it wasn’t the friend part that bored me, it was learning about the same history, a little more difficult math, and writing an essay to similar prompts every year. Sports were fun, they were the highlight of my day anyway, but the train still took forever to pass through those train cars.

            Then, we started nearing the end of the train when we started high school. It’s always fun to look back on high school though. I remember who I sat by on the first day of Mr. Nielson’s Pre-AP English 9 class (Elizabeth Perry), I remember who I used to play freshman volleyball with (Maria, Erin, Charmayne, Tamika, and Bethany), and although there were only six of us, we knew we were bad! Then, sophomore and junior year rolled around, and we couldn’t help but think two more years, then one more year. Now that we’re seniors, most of us caught that terrible “senioritis” disease early on in the year. But the train is on it’s second to last train car, and pretty soon we’re all going to be able to take a deep, long sigh and say, “Finally!”