This post is all about my favorite memories throughout high school. It has been an interesting ride, making friends, losing friends, playing sports, having classes, moving, and so much more. I have had a lot of fun in high school and would not give up that experience for anything. High school seems to take forever to get through, but once you get to graduation, you realize how fast it actually goes by.
I started out in 9th grade at Gulf Shores High School in Gulf Shores, Alabama. I had lived there since I was about 2 and a half years old, so I knew almost everyone in my school. When I started high school, my brother, Tim Foote, was a senior in the high school. He and I became best friends that year because we did many things together including being on the swim team and hanging out with friends. This is my favorite memory from 9th grade. I love my brother, and I'm so glad we got a year together in high school.
My 10th grade year, I was still at Gulf Shores High School, but I knew I was moving. My dad had been forced to quit his job due to politics the year before and had been looking for a new job since then. After either the first or second week of school, Tim moved to Birmingham, AL to attend Samford University for college. Two days after that, my dad moved to Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, to begin his new job. This year was very strange. It is the only time I was old enough to remember all of us not being together. I still had fun though. This was my last year swimming in high school, and I had a hard time leaving the Auburn University pool after the state meet had concluded. I didn't want it to end. Another good memory from 10th grade was a guy's Bible study my friends and I had. One of my friends wanted to go through the Every Young Man's Battle study book, which is a book about how to overcome sexual temptations while we live in the world around us. We would meet every Thursday morning at 7:00 A.M. at the local Hardee's unless we decided to go to some other place for one week. I love the guys that I went through the study with. They are great accountability partners, and we were able to be open with each other.
I had two more good memories from 10th grade, the last year I had at my old school. In my U.S. History class, we had a final project to either create a skit, movie, powerpoint, or paper over something that happened and was controversial. My friends and I chose the Lincoln assassination, and made a video re-enacting it. We had a blast making this video, and we all have a copy of it now. The last favorite, or maybe just entertaining memory from 10th grade, is from the last day of school. It was the last time I would be in Gulf Shores High School as a student, and the last bell had rung. I grabbed all my stuff and started to walk out, when all of a sudden I fell right on my butt. I was walking behind another kid, and we walked past a water-fountain that had some water on the floor in front of it. I slipped and fell. I couldn't believe it. It's kind of a way to go out with a bang though.
We moved into our apartment in Mt. Juliet, TN, at 1:30 A.M. on August 1st. I started school the next day and did not know my schedule yet. I came to find out that you get your schedule the morning of the first day. This made me even more terrified about starting at a new school. That first day was rough. In my fourth block, I was one of the first students in the room because my class before it was across the hall. By the time everyone in the class was in the room, I had a bubble of empty chairs around me. I immediately thought I would hate school. Everything turned around though, and I loved my new friends and school. My favorite memory from junior year, is easily Prom. I asked a girl named Lauren from my church, and I had the time of my life. I was so scared that I wouldn't dance and would be bored, but she got me out of my comfort zone, and I loved dancing! After Prom junior year, I would dance all the time: in class, in the car, at church, in the halls, just walking around.
This moves us on to my senior year of high school. I absolutely loved the majority of my senior year. I was the captain of the golf team, co-captain of the ultimate frisbee team, and part of the vocal ensemble. I danced in vocal ensemble almost every day. I also joined the praise band at my church. My favorite memories from senior year are Mustache Mondays, my choir trip to Atlanta, and senior Prom. Grant McCoy, a friend of mine, made up Mustache Monday. We would come to school on Monday with a mustache. I was only able to do it a few times, but it was a fantastic idea, and I had a lot of fun with it. My choir trip to Atlanta was great! On the way down, we stopped in Chattanooga, TN, to go to the Tennessee Aquarium, UTC, and to see the play, The Mousetrap, at a local theater. Then we drove through the night to Atlanta. We participated in a choir competition while we were there, and on our last day, we spent a few hours at Six Flags. I had so much fun on that trip. I love the people who were in choir with me. My senior Prom was just as good as the year before. I went with a girl in vocal ensemble named Mikka. We went with a big group of people and took pictures on a bridge before prom. After prom, we went to IHOP with a couple friends. We all had a blast that night, and I danced even harder than the year before. I had to keep sitting down because I was so tired.
So those are many of my good memories from high school. I'm sure I could come up with more, but this post is already long enough. I love all my friends from both schools, and I wish I could see all of you more often. We could reminisce. My last comment will be how I chose the name for this post. I am obviously thankful for everyone in my life and all the memories you have given me, but my 8th grade banquet was themed, "Thanks For The Memories." So thank you for the memories everyone.
