Ages 12-14

“My parents wept, my brothers chuckled as I was swept away, I remember my joys, my sorrows, my griefs, to this very day. I remember the excitement, joy and unknown, as if my departure was nothing I’d known. That was soon forgotten as I walked down the path, through an experience that would forever last. As I think of it now it was a powerful thing, My childhood was done – I could hear the fat lady sing. Though it’s now over it’s never quite dead, the good and the bad still live in my head.” – Exert from My Journey by Megan Thompson, 2002