Personal Narrative

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At the start of junior year, I was excited. I was officially an upperclassman, had a spectacular year of classes ahead of me, and was in the early stages of bonding with my new exchange student brother, Marius, a seventeen-year-old from Cologne, Germany. He and I were fast friends and quickly developed an after school ritual of snack consumption and homework completion, both accomplished in the company of each other. At school I was able to learn alongside many of my close friends and had fabulous teachers in all of my classes. In other words, the year ahead looked promising academically, socially, and emotionally.

I could not have been more wrong.

As the first semester carried on I became increasingly stressed by both school and home life.