Three of My Best Friends

As stated previously, I would describe three of my friend's future college plans.

To start off with, there names are Sarah, Staci, and Paul. We met in sixth grade because all of us had signed up to take the entry level French Horn class. Placing in chair tests and quickly becoming the top chairs (Sarah 1st, Staci 2nd, Paul 3rd, and me 4th) we started to bond a friendship almost immediatley that would last a lifetime.

At the end of our sixth grade year everyone tried out for a seat in the "big bands" for the next year. After results came out, the posting said that all of us had attained a spot in the Hudson Middle School Honors Band. We were exstatic and beyond belief that in a short year we had enhanced our music capabilites to be in the Honors Band.

Our standings remained the same for both seventh and eighth grade until we hit high school band. The tryouts at our high school left Sarah, Staci, and I in the Symphonic Band and Paul first chair Concert Band. After the reseating (basically test grades added to the previous audition score) it turned out that Sarah moved up into the Honors Band and Paul moved into the Symphonic Band. The next year Staci moved up and then the next year Paul. I never made it to Honors Band, partially because I didn't want to be in the band because of the director and secondly, I had started to lose my interest in music; thus not working to my full capability.

After seven years of being in the same section and suffering ordinary teenage trials, we have become seniors leading up to our sad goodbyes in a few months.

Sarah is a person with very high morals and self esteem. She is a lot of fun to hang around and is a very trustworthy friend. Luckily, she got admitted to A&M and currently plans to major in education. Her future plans are to teach at about the third or fourth grade level. In fact, it was her that told me about some things at A&M which led to the school becoming an option in my college choices.

Staci is also another great friend of mine. We have been through a lot (health class...lol) and is basically Sarah's other half. They do everything together and if it weren't for different names, would be sisters. I know I can always count on these two to help me when I need help (and sometimes they just think I need help in general). She has been admitted to Brigham Young University and is planning to major in nursing. I told her that since I am become a doctor she will always have a job in my office.

Lastly, there is Paul, or Mr. Paul as I sometimes call him. We have been through a lot and have a lot of common interests that have allowed us to become really close friends. Being trustworthy, I know that I can tell him anything that I couldn't tell anyone else, and on the other side he helps me out with decisions since I have a tendency to overthink situations sometimes. He is going to attend A&M and plans to major in Meterology. He wants to be the weather man on t.v.

Thus far, as we talk about sometimes, our kids will be covered because Sarah will teach them. I will diagnose and treat their sicknesses with Staci helping out with the treatments and then we will all get our daily weather from Paul. We are set.

As sad as it will be to see Staci go (we will be keeping in touch!), I'm just thankful that my other two closest friends will be going to Texas A&M with me. As sarah says "we are going to take a jitterbug (some type of dance) class and then go eat at Free Birds afterwards."

Gosh, with friends like these, what else could I possibly need??

Oh ya...tuition paid so I can be college bound!

Love ya mom and dad! ;)