This is an old piece from high school written through the eyes of a rebellious teenage girl. The second part is an apology she is forced to write after her first, rather offensive piece of writing.
A third section is from her point of view a few years later, showing how much she has changed.
My English teacher wants me to write a stupid story about me and my life. It�s supposed to be a page long, we�ll see. Well my life sux (that�s s.u.x. just ask the dunny walls). My life, and year ten English.
Ok now. Umm well I live with my best friend and both my ogres/parents. Adam�s his name and along with my pierced tongue, having a best friend that�s a guy makes me a complete weirdo according to all the popular, stuck-up blondes that think they own the world.
Living with Adam is a major bummer also because I really like him. You know, like that. So many times I have really wanted to jump on him whilst we�re watching the X-Files lying on my bed. Sorry, I suppose an old wrinkled English teacher didn�t really need to hear that but I have to write a whole page!
What else? Oh there�s the usual problems. Homework for a start, and we don�t have cable TV. I get really bad asthma too, and spend a lot of time in hospital �cause I never take the stuff I�m supposed to.
I disagree with everything my teachers and parents say, my favorite color is black and I only ever read the comics and star signs in the paper. It�s nearly a page Mrs. Whoever you are old English teacher. I hope you�re happy.
I�ve been asked, well ordered, to write an apology. It�s a weird double thing because I got busted smoking the lunchtime after I handed that story in, a day after it was due. So here I am, a week later, in detention at lunchtime writing an apology.
Well I�m sorry my life SUX and that was all I had to write. If you�d like to donate money to improve my life it would be, well it would be my money.
I�m sorry that I called my English teacher old, she�s ancient. I�m sorry I made �horrible sexual references� (quoted from ancient English teacher) but that�s life and by your age you really should know that. I�m sorry my favorite color is black and I�m sorry I only ever read the star signs and the comics in the paper.
My goodness have I really changed that much? I guess I have because I can�t believe I wrote those things back then. Everyone always told me I would be completely different in a few years but I never took them seriously. I certainly do now. I hope the English teachers of this world aren�t subjected to that sort of thing anymore.
I let Adam read that. I forgot I�d written about my feelings for him. I�m glad I did though because he broke up with his girlfriend the next day and we�ve been together ever since. He�s turned my life around in a big way. He made me see that life is not just one big struggle. Somehow in my mind it clicked that I can have anything and do anything I want too if I put the effort in. Adam showed me that when he told everyone to take a hike and left school. He had an apprenticeship waiting for him and he�s doing so well with it. He�s in his third year now so we�ll soon have a qualified mechanic on our hands.
At the tender age of nineteen I have a child and a house to look after. I�m not entirely a housewife though, firstly we�re not married yet and also I go to Tafe on weeknights to finish my V.C.E. while Adam is home to take care of Erryn.
She�s such a beautiful little girl, eighteen months old. A lot of my associates didn�t approve of me have a child but Erryn has given me a lot of responsibility and I can see now that I needed it.
It�s been a hard change but I�ve had Adam supporting me and every time I look at Erryn I know it�s worth while.
It�s especially hard sometimes as Adam and I don�t see much of each other but there�s always the weekends and our relationship has come this far without too many problems.
I�m not the complete outcast I was back then either. I get a lot of respect from people when they hear I�m finishing school and looking after Erryn. My list of friends is growing all the time.
I�m so grateful for all the good things in my life. In a round about way it was my rude rebellious past that has brought me this happiness and I know that. If I didn�t write that atrocious story to my English teacher I would never have confessed my feelings to Adam and we wouldn�t have become the happy couple we are. I would not have very much at all in fact, not without Adam.
I quit smoking when I got pregnant and I even took out my tongue ring. My favorite color is still black but I read the whole newspaper. Except the opinion pages. Some of those people are so arrogant.
HOW LIFE'S CHANGED
