The Importance Of Stereotypes

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i have a lot of friends but a lot of my friends are from sports and school. i have a tom from hockey and lacrosse they are all really nice and i just love to hang out with them outside of sports and mostly we just play sports when we are together but it's still sometimes to take a break from sports and just hang with friends and watch movies and go swimming or on the river. i'm in 8th grade but i don't really hang out with kids in my grade i normally hang out with like the 9th graders and so 10th. i have friends that are in my brothers grade and a year older than him because of being on high school teams but it is sometimes nice to hang out with girls in my own grade but that doesn't happen a lot. people always ask why i don't hang out with my grade and i guess it's just because they are not like me they are different they don't like to do the things i do and a lot of them don't play sports so i've just learned to be friends with the people that are older than me. …show more content…
i mean sometimes my grade is really annoying but most of the time they are just ok. well also the people i'm friends with in my grade don't go to oakland it's kinda hard to hang with them at school if they don't go to the same school. i sometimes wish i was friends with people in my own grade but i'm not the best at making friends so it's kinda hard for me. i really hope that i keep my friends through high school but i know that doesn't always happen. and maybe through high school boy ifk if i will be able

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