Freshmen Presentation essays

Freshmen Presentation essays Self Discovery is key to friendship. Knowing who you are and what is important to you creates bonds and identifies boundaries. What does it mean to understand yourself? There are things inside each of us that make us unique, not just our talents, but those gifts, traits that make us who we are. They are the treasures God has blessed us with and it is people, places, events that help bring out these treasures in us. Self Discovery is key to friendship, now thats a motto that I completely ignored the moment I came to my new school back in my country. I just graduated sixth grade and Im entering seventh when I realized that I have to move schools. I was devastated and scared. The first day of school went by pretty normal, until it was time to eat lunch. Being a new girl, I dont have friends to sit with so I ended up not eating at all. I watched the activities inside the cafeteria from afar and what I saw scared me. There were groups of people and most of them are sitting with each other. Like the norm, there were the cool group, the geeks, the geniuses, the punks, and many other groups. Then there were those who are not part of a group. I observed those who arent part of any group and realized that their life must be miserable sitting alone in a table with no one but a book. I was scared to be like them. I desperately want to belong to a group, any group. Because I was afraid to be called strange and not be accepted, I tried to be like the rest of them. I completely trashed the values that my parents gave me and I turned my back on the things that I used to enjoy that are not considered cool. I started hanging out with the crowd and I started becoming well liked. I was so happy. Little did I know, that that happiness could end right there and then because it wasnt what I am, it ...