Friends

Please, please know who your friends are or you may lose your true friends.

The cliques are a bit stronger in seventh grade though. As much as I might disagree with the whole notion of cliques and groups in general, they do seem to be tighter knit and somewhat smaller. So, if I were you, I would figure out who your good friends are and stick with them.

During in and outside of school, you should always have friends. Friends can really help brighten your life when you have problems (not math problems you can copy off) and difficulties. Secondly, after school work, I think that it is very important to have as many friends as you can. They can brighten up your days, you and your friends can help each other in everything that you are having difficulties doing. I think it is also important that you include everyone as one of your friends so everyone can have a good time. I think that by doing all this, it can improve both you academic and social life.

I could talk about grades, time management, socials and a lot of other stuff. But I am going to talk about the one thing that makes school and seventh grade worthwhile (besides the future). The one thing that makes it all worthwhile is the friendships that you form. Seventh grade can be really tough, you start to have a lot of homework and a quiz at least every week. Soon, you just get feed up, I know I did. You don’t want to get up in the morning, but you do, because your friends are waiting for you at school. And after a long day, you can walk to villa and chill with some ice tea. Also in seventh grade, a lot happens, and some of the stuff that happens you can’t really talk about with your parents. So it is really important to have at least one friend in which you can entrust anything and everything. Friends will listen as you rant against unfair teachers and loads of homework, but they will also comfort you if you don’t get asked to the social or you are turned down. In conclusion, friends don’t only help you get up in the morning, but they also help you through the day.

Here’s some advice about friends. Never ditch a friend or do anything that might hurt them because a lot of people are going through puberty and they get very emotional except for guys. Only girls. Second of all, never ditch your friends to be part of the popular group. Your reputation goes way down after that and you’ll be left without friends if the popular group doesn’t like you.

Now you must be thinking that you’re so big and cool… well… you’re not… just because you’re older then what you were last year, doesn’t mean that you can do whatever you want. It just means you need to work harder and things that were hard for you last year will be harder. This is also the time when you (and I mean the girls) start growing up (the boys’ just keep on acting like they’re four….) so when weird stuff starts to happen to you don’t freak out, just enjoy the moment.  When you are in seventh grade you start thinking that everybody hates you and then you start yelling and stuff like that… well nobody hates you…you just think that way because you think that now that everything about you is changing people start acting differently, your brain isn’t used to that feeling so it thinks “why do they hate me” and then you start being freaky and mad. You will also get EXTREMLY hyper for unknown reasons…well just go with it. It’s a nice feeling to laugh for no reason…trust me…I know…

Depending on your luck, you might not be able to have many classes with your friends. When you were in 6th grade, you had only 2 different periods for P.E, yet, when you become a 7th grader, you have 4 different periods for the P.E. This proves that there is a great chance that you might not be able to be with your friends. However, for some people, it would be a big chance to make more friends.

Friendship is the most basic thing for you, I know that all of you guys have some good friends from last year, and there is no worry about this. What you should do is just keep the good relationship with them and don’t let them ever feel lonely or sad.

Lots of new friends you will get to meet in seventh grade.

There will be a lot of group working and socializing with new people that you don’t know. You will gather more friendships between people if you work well as a group. 

You and your friends will get into more fights because of hormones.  Another matter is your social life. If you are a social person and you hang out with friends a lot you should probably do homework first because if you do it gives you time later to hang out. I would hang out with my friends and say oh I’ll do it after dinner and then dinner comes and afterwards I get so tired I don’t feel like doing it. My math/ science teacher tells us to do our homework before dinner because when you eat dinner the food settles in your stomach and makes you really tired. This happens because basically you are telling your body that it’s the end of the day and you are about to go to sleep which sort of turns down your energy level. I know this happens to all of you so put school before friends, in the long-run the people that value their education more than their social life become more successful.

Hello new 7th graders now as you move you’ll notice that the homework and classes are about the same as 6th grade. Now the difference is the faces and names of teachers. However the most different is the social groups and how to act around each other. You’ll see that you’ll make new friends and you might not be in the popular group as you were last year. A lot of the kids would have changed over the summer like you people like and dislike and stay updated if you don’t want to be behind. Because relationships are tricky to hold on to so some will die quickly like a crush or will last a while. That is a heads up on this so that’s your warning. See you later.  My final advice for you, is to relax because every single one of your friends is going through the same thing as you! Just stay cool, and you will do great! You will breeze right through 7th grade… but don’t go to fast… enjoy it while you can… you don’t wanna go to high school just yet! Trust me. Take my advice. Because I know what its like to be in the middle of your family, in the middle of middle school… and it isn’t that bad. <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">In 7th grade your friends will change. You will get some new friends and will lose some of your old friends. But don’t try to be someone else, because then it will be harder to make good friends. So get some real good friends to hang out with.

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<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> You may notice that you and your BFF may be becoming more distant from each other, and you two communicate less and less, until you each hardly talk anymore. This may happen to some, but not to all. They either leave because they think there are better friends than you, or because you think there are better friends than them. Making new friends is great, but just never forget the old ones. Remember, they were your first BFF’s you had. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> From mean teachers to exams, humiliation to desertion, and friends to enemies; all of these may happen to you fellow 7th Graders, and more. But 7th Grade isn’t all just pure torture. It can be fun sometimes, too. I didn’t say all the time. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> You should be able to get a little free time, right? Use that time to hang out with your buddies. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">

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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">I hope I didn’t scare you, sharing all that, but those were some of the experiences that I had. I may sound bad, I know, but the best thing I remember about those field trips was the fun I had and the friends I had fun with. I hope you make the right decisions during your life in 7th Grade, and always cherish your old friends, but keep making new ones, not wrong ones. These friends can help you through anything, from heartbreaks, to confronting the devil-teacher, and as a friend. And remember, not all teachers are mean. You might just be lucky and get the best teacher, either in her attitude, or to helping you with your grades. I hope this letter has helped you experience the first of 7th Grade, but if this message scared you, then I do apologize! Hope you have fun! Thank you for reading.