Frances Willard Elementary

           My most vivid memory I’ve had growing up as a kid was elementary school. I attended Frances Willard Elementary from kindergarten to fifth grade. Frances Willard was a small school, with only 2 hallways. From above, it looked like an “L” shape. It wasn’t a school where we had lots of money so it was very exciting for all of us students to receive something new every once in awhile, such as a new playground, and new buildings that made the school even more bigger.

As a kid growing up, I always enjoyed being considered above average than most students in my class. It was very different back then when I was in elementary then how it is now. The school was about six blocks away from my house. My parents always had very different perspectives in me walking to and from school. My dad didn’t mind me walking to and from school until I was in 4th grade. My mom, on the other hand, has always been overprotected and she didn’t let me at all throughout all six years in elementary. It bothered me a little bit because all my friends walked and even some that lived further than me.

I remember every morning waking up to get ready to go to school. The smell of the cold breeze every morning flowing through the windows of my room. The sound of hearing nothing but myself breathing. The feeling of being tired and not wanting to go to school. I still remember hearing my mom yell out “Time to go to school” every morning. My mom would always take me about five to ten minutes early and the doors didn’t open till 8am every morning so I had to wait outside with other people, including my friends.

School work wasn’t what was exciting about elementary. It was the about being with your friends and having good times. What was the most fun out of everything in school was recess. Recess was the only fifteen minutes of fun we’d have in school and what made it fun was not only to get away from schoolwork for a while, but it was fun because of the fact that I would always get together with my friends and compete against in others in the most popular game at the time, kickball. As a kid, everything was about competition, from school work, to outdoor activities. With all the energy I had as kid, everything was more fun that it is now. I still remember I’d be in a team with my friends and we’d never lose no matter what competed against us.  

I still live in the exact same place of when I use to go to Frances Willard. I’ve visited the school a couple of times recently, to catch up with the teachers that helped me further my education. Teachers that have been there since the start of my first year, and knowing the fact that they’re still teaching. There has been a dramatic change in the school. The school itself has had many improvements in construction, such as It’s nearly tripled its size. The population had only gotten bigger within the time that’s passed by. The education now offers much more activities and programs that help students way of learning. It’s exciting to see how much difference and improvement there’s been after nearly 12 years.