• First Day of School (August 24th, 2016):
This is the day it all began. I never would’ve expected this year to go as quickly as it did. Although the year passed by for me quickly, it was full of drama, friendship, sadness, stress, and an overall empty feeling. The first day was nothing remarkable, just a start to something that felt new again. That’s why I always remember the first day, it snaps me out of my summer attitude and hits me hard to prepare for the long year of hard work ahead. I can’t remember every singly detail of the first day but I do remember giving my first impression to new friends and new teachers. This today was the prologue, my introduction, and I’d say that’s a pretty important …show more content…
It’s easy for friends to get in fights, but the way they get out fights shows how strong a friendship truly is. Over winter break my friend Sam and I got into a “fight” (the kind where we don’t talk to each other) and it created a shift in our group of friends. It started from something as trivial as a conversation and kept spiraling into things worse. Eventually as a month or two passed, things died down and we started talking again. We started to become even closer than we were last time, and that to me was the beauty of this situation. Despite getting into a terrible conflict we were able to get out of it and emerge into a new stage of our …show more content…
It’s because we focus on what separates us rather than what unites us. I go to Sunday School at the Islamic Center of Southern California and we focus on developing an American-Muslim identity and encourage interfaith dialogue. Our trip to a temple/Jewish Sunday School happened after Earth Day so both schools traded books with one another to stop wasting trees by making paper for new books. On the trip we focused on the aspects of religion that held our people together. We talked a lot about the Exodus, common prophets in Judaism and Islam, and compared our religious books. It taught me a lot more about the similarities we have and brought me closer to people of Jewish faith all over the