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Who was I as a freshman? Well I was the girl whom spent all her time behind a book and was rarely was acknowledged except for the recruitment of group tests and quizzes to ensure the best grade. As a freshman I had fallen from the top of the middle school hierarchy to the bottom trenches of high school. Something had to be done. With limited friends and an abundance of free time I decided to join track and field. Unfortunately I was not particularly talented in walking let alone running, so I decided that I would merely use track to work out and start my own club. Let me stay that joint presidency of a club, especially with your best friend is not the best idea. So after my failed attempt of a club I turned to anime, it became my new obsession. For hours I would spend my time drawing or watching it. My average afternoon consisted of 2 hours of homework, 1 hour of cooking, 4 hours of anime, and then off to bed. It’s pretty obvious that I still remained the girl whom spent all her time behind a book and was rarely acknowledged. Ending my year with fewer friends than I had currently started with, I was not seeing the bright side to being in high school.

Summer of 2007 came and went with no real headway with the social ladder or anything else for that matter.

Art History sophomore year was the most amazing and most horrific class in the world. Not only did I meet my best friend but I got my first B even after scoring a perfect 100 on the final exam. Sophomore year was so promising though, not only did I make new friends but my childhood friend, Kyle, attended my high school. For once I felt like I had a group, and they didn’t shun me because of my obsession with anime or weird personality. I was finally getting the hang of high school. Oh and guess what? I decided to give track another go. Sure it wasn’t my best idea but the last meet I got first place in my heap for the 200 dash. I was so ecstatic that I couldn’t stop shaking.

During the summer I spent my time in Europe with a collection of misfits and preps. Making friends with a small group of odd balls I became more social and outspoken. Not only that I also saw more than I had ever imagined. Traveling to France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, and Germany I came to fall for a cute guy on the trip. I still remember my mother’s face when I arrived home and told my mom that I had found a bf on the trip. After Europe and camp my summer went way to fast and school started up once again. What do you get when you add social life plus school? You get someone who is balancing on a tight rope.

School was more challenging than ever with the introduction of advance placement classes into my work schedule. Ever enduring I was I, working hard and volunteering at numerous places and odd jobs. My friends gave me a sense of peace until the dreadful day when Kyle moved to Texas, and my track buddy went to college. I felt like I was a freshman all over again. Friends weren’t my only problems; remember the boy from before, well let’s say love hurts. Relationships were frustrating so I had to break away and find a new passion. It was during my junior year that I picked up my first professional camera and I haven’t put it down ever since. The sound of the shudder, the movement of the lenses, it was all so beautiful.

Summer came and went once again due to a long summer at Camp Kanata. Even though being a counselor was tough work, at the end of the day it was all worth it when i saw their smiles.

Senior year, what can I say except it’s not what it’s cut out to be. I started senior year with a frustrated heart and a confused mind. Switching from group to group I was still trying to find a group of friends with my best friend right next to me. The two of us couldn’t be messed with; we were invincible. School progressed and I sent in my applications to college; which happens to be one of the most nerve-wracking things I have ever done. Finally for my fourth and final year I joined Track, it was great I had not only accomplished so much but I had underclassmen asking me about high jump. The only problem facing me was the constant struggle with senioritis, the work load seemed overwhelming and pointless. Life went on and I decided to attend NCSU for a major in forensic anthropology. As my year ended I decided that everything that I had endured my last four years was worth it. Sure I have lost friends but I have also found and rediscovered friends. No longer do I go by the most common name of my decade, Caitlin, but instead Noelle Vrana. Now that I have learned what I have, I look forward to promising new experiences and friendships. It would have been nice if someone had told me when I had started high school that, it would all be worth it in the end, but the didn’t. I am glad I was able to become who I am today, the energetic, spontaneous, opinionated, camera carrying senior. And that’s all I have to sa y======

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