I'm a high school graduate Back in June 2023 I'm done with school forever Freedom

you're doing great king! The realization of all this, is the best. proud of you!

This was the same for me, at least for the first two weeks of my break, since my parents had work and my sisters were at my nans. It was weird for me being by myself, all alone. It was my first break after my first year of high school and I didn't necessarily hate school but I didn't enjoy it either, but just like what you said about just doing the same thing everyday was something I genuinely wanted to avoid, especially because of the fact that is how I spent my break before entering high school if not everyday during intermediate, just hopping on the game scrolling and thinking that's all I needed to do. This is the reason why I am so grateful that I was raised in the LDS church. Because during my first break, my mum told me that I was going to be going to FSY. Which was a LDS camp type of thing held at a large school. Most of my friends from church went too, and they were complaining saying it was taking away from their holiday time since we got only 6 weeks of holiday with the camp being 5 to 6 days long. But me personally I was quite excited, hearing the fact I got to get out of the house. At FSY though, my life completely changed. Being in a place where everyone's able to enjoy themselves, while also learning about god is amazing since It wasn't everyday I got to go to a place with people who shared the same values whether they were forced to go or not. It made me feel like I didn't have to fit in since not everyone's a member at school and outside of it of course. It Honestly provided the perfect balance between learning about religion while also having a fun time with friends and get a little loose. Also having your own company ( which were the name of our groups/classes we were put in) with me being in 9 made you feel like you had your own family even with being far away from home. The amount of friends I made there was amazing and going from Monday where everyone is just meeting each other in our company's all shy to everyone on Thursday and Friday acting like we have known each other for years. This was all thanks to our counsellors who were our company leaders, they were mean as since we got the youngest ones since they were laid back but also knew when the boundary was crossed. Whenever we had free time which was during like 3 to 5 pm they had speakers and everyone would just dance chill around and if not go outside and play a game or sport. The amount of joy I felt there had never been topped and it gave me the confidence to speak to more people, with the amount of friendships I made. It also made me more inclined to read scripture as before I would only read when I was at church or when my family wanted to ( which was not eery often lol) and man I could go on and on about the amount of things I felt and enjoyed in only those 5-6 days. It was even better knowing after FSY that some of the friends I made there actually went to my school or where near where I lived. It really made me think that if it weren't for FSY, I would have walked past this person so many times not knowing how much we had in common or how bets of friends we could have been just because I was to scared to speak. You also didn't have to be a member to go since I knew a few people who just went cause their friends invited them. I'm sure they were nervous and probably new to religious thing since we were given lessons that were genuinely fun. I remember one girl in my company spoke and shared her testimony when the company's were doing testimony sharing. She told us she was never a member of thee church, but that she really enjoyed the time she had at FSY and said she wished she was brought up in it too. It was a sad but happy day on Thursday everyone crying during testimony meetings, with the potential thought of only having 1 more day fore leaving on Saturday. It was also nice after having such eventtttful days going back to the dorms we had and just getting ready for bed. As a boy I knew already that the boys were definitely not going to bed at 10:30 which was lights out. I spent most of the last few minutes reading scripture even with the boys running up and down the halls playing games, and just joking around. I also loved how respectful everyone was there, like this guy who was playing in the hallway with his friends in my dorm saw me reading and said "Yo bro, you all good?' I said I was fine but he yelled out to his friends " oi, shuuush your being to loud' I laughed, and at that moment I knew these times were to cherish. I think this is where I'm goanna stop. Looking at this I find it hard to think anyone's going to read this lol, but if you are have a blessed day, and remember to enjoy your life! Just how I like to reminisce about times like I have just said remember that you living right now will be the times you reminisce about when your older. So don't waste time and make your life count. I say these things in the name of thy son Jesus Christ Amen.

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i read allat 💯 nice story man it reminds me of my days spent in summer camp. I love communities like that

thanks for sharing man

truth

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bruh....