Grade 12 is the year everyone looks forward to, it is the year when everything students dream of and wait for, happens. I however am not one of those students. This was the year I was looking forward to, until about 3 months ago. The year I was imagining was to be packed with sports, working and going out. The supposedly best year of my life involves attending long doctor appointments, working the unwanted shifts, and watching way too many games from the sidelines. Even just being a teenager is out of the question this year. For the past 2 years I was the youngest student at work, this meant I had the misfortune of always receiving the dreaded shift times. The older students left for university this summer so I was next in line for the reasonable shift times, but because I missed a summer of work all the new students are first in line for the good shifts and I am again unluckily, stuck with the unwanted shifts, that is if I can even manage to last a full shift. I live for sports. I have devoted all of my time to sports, only to find out I might not even be able to play. If I am not medically cleared to play, I truly do not know what to do with all the free time I would have. This year my intent was to hang out with my friends every weekend that I wasn't away for sports because I never really had chances to do that in the past. Now my parents rarely let me go out past 9:30pm because I am so exhausted all the time. This year I had my heart set on applying to Queens University out east. My dreams have been crushed because now I have to settle for a university close to home, if I can even achieve the grades to make it into university. This unfortunately is due to the fact that if anything critical does happens I have to be close to all of my doctors. The one thing that hasn't changed, and I’m so happy it didn’t, are my friends. It would have killed me if they abandoned me. Without them I honestly don’t know how I would have made it through this year. As much as I am not looking forward to this year it is going to be a year I will definitely not forget.
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