Blog Assignment #2

       Back when I was in eighth grade I was faced with a very hard decision. Either go to The Philadelphia Academy Charter High School (PACHS) or to The Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush. I had to think very long and hard about this because it was either go with the safe choice, PACHS where I could go to school with my brother, or go to the completely new school where I will know almost no one at all. In the end I decided to go to Rush because I had already been to PACS for five years and did not want to get stuck with people that I had grown to dislike. It was a big risk making that choice because not only was it a new school but I was not given a shadow day so I was really just on my own in making the decision. The problem was that PACHS was a better funded school with more opportunities and Rush was just a poor public school. But now, four years later I would still make the same choice every time because this place is like my home now and I've made so many connections with so many people. And there are days where I do wonder who I would have become if I chose differently and I will ask myself, who would I be friends with? What would I act like? But in the end I tell myself it doesn't matter because Rush is where I belong and it's a place where I can really be myself.