Oak Forest Research Paper

While living in Oak Forest my life was as simple as it could be, I had many friends and family there with me so I always was able to do fun activities with my friends. School was very simple and easy, I didn't have much homework and I had a good amount of friends there. I was very content with my life at the time, then it happened. My mother tells us that we are moving to Orland Park which I couldn't believe. The only bright side I could see of the situation was that I knew some friends from Orland Park so that meant that I wouldn't be all alone. Nonetheless, I was devastated, I was leaving the place where I've spent 13 years of my life in, the only home I've ever known so of course there are going to be emotions all over the place for everyone …show more content…
At the end of the school year I did all that I could so I was obviously upset with leaving. I began to spend time with the friends I knew in Orland park and was hoping that I would at least go to the same school as them so that I could know some people in my school. It just so happens that I got very unlucky and went to the school where I didn't know a single person, Orland Junior High (OJH), which is exactly what I was afraid of. This was the start of a new chapter in my life. As the school year started it turned how I imagined it to be, standing alone with nobody to talk to while everybody else reunited with their friends and talked about their summer. Another thing that gave me a punch into reality was the level of difficulty the grading system and classes in this school was. I was so used to the slow paced education but in OJH I wasn't able to keep up, the math classes were the ones that gave me trouble especially because of a math program that I had no idea about. I spent tireless days and nights doing homework when I usually would be grabbing something to eat with my friend from the store. I had some acquaintances but no real close