Veronica Valladares:  

School Hi! Anyways, I've been to so many different schools during my compulsory school years...and sometimes it was great, others sucked. Let's see..I first went to Whittier/Arts Magnet school in Berkeley for Pre-school/Kindergarten; I then went to Cragmont Elementary; Later, I went to Columbus West Elementary until later on in the school year I transferred to Oakland Montessori School in Oakland; I spent a few years there. In 5th grade, I went to St. Anthony's school (a private, Catholic school) in Oakland; to be honest, I HATED that school! I was so glad when the year was over and I was going to go to a different school. Middle school was cool; I went to Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley and the 3 years I spent there were cool (6th grade I thought could've been better...); I graduated in '99. September 1999, I began high school at Berkeley High school, I spent 2 wonderful years of high school there until I moved to Pleasant Hill in 2001 and transferred to College Park High School for the last 2 years of high school. Junior year, I have to admit, was horrible: I was in a new school, 9/11 had happened less than a week after I began school, I didn't know anyone there and I felt lonely without all my friends from Berkeley. But by the end of my junior year, things settled down and I made a couple of new friends, but never forgot my Berkeley friends. I graduated from College Park in June of 2003; I'm finally out of high school!! I also went to Berkeley High's graduation 4 days later to see my friends graduate, it was awesome! We're all outta high school now! \(^^)/ I went to Diablo Valley College (DVC) and had the best 3 years of my life there. I then spen...Expand for more