text: When I was new to middle school, I didn't know many people because I had moved her from Florida the summer before seventh grade. I tried new ways to meet new people by sitting with a certain group of girls at lunch or being in their book club group for class, but none of those ideas worked. My last hope was to join a club! That was the best decision I could have made. There was so many options to choose from but I enjoyed photography and art which made me think to try the yearbook club. The first day there wasn't many people there which I most likely could have expected but I kept going every week. About three weeks in, more people showed up including the group of girls I wanted to be friends with! My heart skipped a beat! I was so happy to see them walk in the door and hopefully be able to get there attention so they would invite me to sit and work with them. After a few minutes of pretend coughing, one of the girls; Generic_Name came over to me and asked if I wanted to join them. It was in that moment I knew we were going to be friends. If I didn't persevere and keep going to the yearbook club meetings and put my venerable seventh grade self out there, I wouldn't have met the amazing group of girls that are now my best friends.