How To Survive Middle School

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How I survived Middle School- Graduation Speech

Good afternoon everyone, I am Shruthi Bodipudi. I am proud to say I am an 8th grader. It is honored to talk to you all to share my thoughts and feelings about how I survived Middle school. It was a great deal for me because everything was new. I struggled a lot at first. Many things seemed difficult for me. I had to leave my most lovable people back in India, I had to learn English and get good grades, I had to make friends and learn to be flexible in anyplace. These may not sound hard, but one knows after they experience something even though it doesn’t worry them.

When my mom said she had a surprise for me that day, I was really excited to know what it was because my mom has always shocked
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Socializing was as hard as a stone for me when I was in 6th grade. My people tried to talk to me, but since I wasn’t so soluble, they gave up talking to me. I wasn’t scared that I don’t have any friends, but I did feel very lonely. I asked my mom, “ Mom, why is it so hard to make friends?”. Then she said, “ It isn’t hard to make friends because you should feel like everyone around is a friend of you, but It only works once you start talking to them.” That answer impacted me so much. From the next day, I tried to be as friendly as I can. I talked to many people, but some didn’t talk to me. I didn’t give up. Later I thought I should talk to people in my ELL class since we were together most of the time. That was the first time I talked to Angela and Bethany. They were really nice even though we didn’t understand some of the things we were told to each other. It was still nice to have friends like Angela and Bethany. That’s how I completed my 6th grade. When it comes to my 7th grade, I met even more friends. It was really refreshing to have more people feel concern about you and take care of you. It became easy for me to make friends and talk in 8th grade because I learned good English and was able to communicate with anyone without being scared. My life became much easier in eighth