I remember the last day of summer vacation leading up to my first day of school this year. I was very nervous. The high school was new to me and seemed massive compared to the small middle school I went to the year before. I was scared of getting lost and being late to all of my classes on the first day. The night before I packed my backpack and got all my supplies ready to go for the next morning. I planned out my outfit and tried to go to sleep early. But, I couldn’t fall asleep. The same thing happens every year, I try to go to bed early but always end up not being able to sleep. Every year I try elaborate ways to help me fall asleep fast like weird breathing patterns and crazy sleeping positions. But every year without fail, I end up not being able to sleep. After many hours of tossing and turning I finally fell asleep. When I woke up the next morning, I was extremely tired. I immediately wanted to go back to bed. But, I couldn’t miss my first day. So, I got dressed, ate breakfast, and brushed my teeth. My brother and I grabbed all of our things and went to our bus stop. We waited for the bus for about 10 minutes. During those 10 minutes I became very nervous. I thought to myself, Is it really the first day of school already? The summer went by too fast. I was really nervous to get on the bus and go to school. The bus finally got to our stop.
I stepped on the bus and the driver asked me, “What is your name?”
I said “Grace Weske.”
“Ok,” the bus driver replied as she wrote down my name on a list.
I found a seat in the middle of the bus and sat down. I recognized my friend Mia who was sitting in the seat across from me. “Hi Mia! How was your summer?” I asked her. “Good, how was your summer?” she said back.
“A lot of fun, I wish it lasted longer,” I said.
After the short bus ride I got off the bus. I looked at my schedule and went to the west cafeteria for homeroom. Mia ended up being in my homeroom, so I sat down next to her. After spending an hour in homeroom, I went to my first period, gym. I met some new people in my gym class, but we mostly sat and listened to the teacher talk about the syllabus. In most of my classes all the teachers did was go over class rules and hand out syllabuses. After gym,
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I woke up alarmed and breathing heavy. Fear coursed through my veins. Was it from the recurring nightmare I had for the past week or what was to come that day? I didn't know. Both seemed pretty bad to me and I wished neither of them would have to happen, but they did. That day I had my first day of school. I wouldn't mind if it would have been the year before, this year was different though. This past summer was the hardest thing I've done. I had to say goodbye to everything. My friends, my home, everything that ever made me happy. The only thing that I brought with me was my very precisely chosen wardrobe of cool toned shirts and expensive bottoms and my old and useless cat Luna. Our new house was on the edge of town, the richer side. But that didn't mean anything to me, neither did my dad’s new job. Nothing about this new start made me happy. I was perfectly fine in our old home, I had tons of friends and I was close with all the girls on my softball team. Everyone in the town knew me, and I knew everyone. The only person from our new town I knew was the sweet old lady who lived next door who brought cookies the day we moved in. She was a lot older than my parents even, probably in her seventies, but looked a bit younger with all the makeup she wore. She looks nice, but also like a typical rich older woman with all the expensive brands and jewelry she wore. Everyone in this neighborhood is like that though, and I feel out of place. I'm not usually the type of person to
My first day as a seventh grader was crazy. Once I got off the bus, I walked into the building and found myself not knowing what to do. So, I just followed the other kids to see where they were going. After following them, I found myself in the gym. Everyone was talking to their friends and comparing their schedules to see if they had any classes together. I looked to see if I could find any of my friends from last year, and fortunately I did. They were sitting on the other side of the gym at the top row. I walked up the bleachers stairs and sat by them. I had not seen some of them since the last day of sixth grade. Then, I saw Mrs. Grieb and Mrs. King come up to give us a first day of school speech.
When I got to class I realized that I knew most of the students from my class. Right away I knew that this year was going to be great. All that we had to do during first period was answer some questions about ourselves and share it with a partner. I had made a new friend that period and her name is, Chelsea.
Her name was Andrea. She was very appealing to the eye, and I immediately had a crush on her. I could not stop staring at her and how beautiful she was. The way her hair flowed, and the way she dressed - it was aesthetically pleasing.
As i'm riding to school on my bike I realize i've forgotten my backpack I start riding home and when I get there I pack my backpack and lunch. Then I ride to school. When I get there I lock my bike in the bike racks. I stare at my schedule I had mr lo first period. The bell rang and all the students piled into the classrooms. I got to mr lo’s class it had science equipment everywhere. We started off playing a get to know you game which was quite boring until mr lo did a diet coke and mentos experiment. Before we knew it first and second period were over the day was going fast.
We saw the train and jumped with joy because we would be going on there very soon. We all filed onto the bus and sat with our friends. I sat with Lynnde. We were all giddy and full of joy. Me and Lynnde talking to Alexi, Marisa, all of our other friends around us about how fun this is and the gift shop we are going to. We were all so incredibly excited.
Mr.Evans told us about what we would be doing this year in there. My last class was ELA. She let us sit wherever we wanted, but changed her mind very soon because it didn’t work out. She told us about the class and what we were going to do. Then the bell rang and everyone rushed down the hallway to get to their lockers. Finally I arrived at my locker and got my stuff and walked out of the locker area and exited the school and went to look for my bus. I finally found the bus and then sat in the back with my friends. The bus was hot because there were a lot of people on this bus and it was crowded.The bus ride wasn’t that long. It was at least 30 minutes.We talked on the bus about the first day school and about how it was going to be this year and was it going to be a better year than last year not that last year wasn’t bad and we also had some fun on the bus but a few months later we didn’t know we were getting seats by the bus driver.The bus finally arrived at my bus stop and I picked up my stuff and said bye to the people on my bus and then I got off the bus and went to my house and walked in the house and that was when my first day of 7th grade ended and it wasn’t an exciting day because we didn’t do that
“Don’t be late for school,” my mom said. “I know, I know,” I replied as I looked over my school supplies list to make sure I had everything. Today was my first day of middle school. I was so nervous! Would middle school be hard? Would there be a lot of homework? What would 6th grade be like? I had so many questions that were left unanswered. I looked at the time. It was 8:00. My bus would be coming at 8:12 so I had to go. Putting on my shoes, I said goodbye to my mom and left for the bus stop. I saw other students leaving their houses to get to the bus stop. I wondered whether any of them would be in my grade. Since I moved into my new house, I hadn’t met any of my neighbors. Perhaps one of them would be my friend by the end of the day. When the bus came, I quickly got on. I looked at the students getting onto the
Once the bus came to a complete stop in front of the school, I told the bus driver goodbye and headed into the double doors. It was a long and
Ding! Ding! Ding! My alarm clock goes off as I remember today is my first day of middle school. I hop out of bed, get changed, and run down stairs. I pack up my backpack and make sure my iPad is fully charged for the day. I eat my cinnamon and sugar sweet like a brownie muffin for breakfast and make my lunch.”Goodbye mom see you when I get home,” I call as I pick up my backpack. I say goodbye to my huge fluffy dog Chelsea and head off to the bus stop. Vroom! I hear the school bus come towards my bus stop and I get on. I see lots of people don't know which makes me nervous. I finally see my best friend Sally and sit with her. We compare are schedules and only have science together. Looking at my schedule makes me nervous about how I'm going to find everything. We arrive a the school and get off, we walk straight in and see a maroon go eagles sign. I find the cafeteria where all sixth graders should meet. The teachers give us our locker combos and we go find them I have no clue where it is and how to open it. After a few minutes of trying to open it a teacher helps me and I get it. I have to get to class so I dump everything in my locker and leave, leaving it a mess I'll have to clean it later. At the end of the day I sit on the bus thinking that wasn't so bad I just need to clean my locker.
Well, here it is,the day I've been dreading since Mrs. Mercer first brought it up. This day honestly came way too fast! When I first got my schedule and seen current health issues, I was like what in the world? So the first day of school came about and it was time for seventh period. When I realized it was Mrs. Mercer's class, I got extremely happy. I wasn't sure what to expect the first few days. As the days went on, all 13 of us started to get the hang of everything and bonded instantly. This is definitely a class that I'll always remember and I will truly miss! We've all had happy times,sad times,angry times,and a lot of fun times. I've honestly took in a lot from RY, especially snap and zap. Snap and Zap is where you snap out of bad thoughts and zap in good thoughts. I found if you do that then you wouldn't have as much anxiety build up. I feel like the RY class has helped a lot with my anxiety and anger. Mrs.Mercer and the 12 others in RY have been there for me since the first day. I want to thank all you guys. When class first started, I wasn't sure if I wanted to open up because at that time I only talked to like two people. I wasn't sure if I could trust everyone. Well about the second week I felt like I had a family A family that I can talk to, cry too, get advice from, never be judged by, a family that I can just simply enjoy. One that Id die to have at home. I knew if I couldn't trust anyone else, I had 13 other people that I knew for a fact that I could run to
Kids running, bells (and phones) ringing, teachers yelling names off their attendance lists. The only thing I felt was tension as I was in the middle of a hurricane of rushing students. It was absolute chaos as the first bell rang on the first day of middle school, signaling that classes were about to start.
It was a good day, I stood in front of the door so I could be picked up by my mom. There was a kid, James, he was much taller than me at the time, most people were taller than me, but I didn’t mind. James came down the hallway and was staring straight at me with a devilish look in his eyes and a smirk on his face. I was holding a couple of picture books that we had to bring that day, I really enjoyed reading them. He was approaching me, I didn’t think anything of it, all I was doing was minding my own business. He stood in front of me with his back straight and he was staring into me, like he was establishing dominance, like a lion in the jungle. In one quick motion he snatched all of my picture books straight out of my hands, I stood there speechless, I hated confrontation. Then he held those books over me to the point where I couldn't reach them. I jumped and jumped but I couldn’t reach those books, I repeatedly said “Give them back!” and he responded with “Just take them then”, he knew I couldn’t.. By then a teacher saw us and reclaimed my books from James, but I was already in tears. I spent the rest of the day sobbing and trying to understand how someone could be so heartless.
After the bus ride,I got to school and immediately snap chatted my friends to see where they were so we could talk before school started.The five minute bell rang so I went to class. My first hour was Mr. campbells math. We did an activity to get to know each other. When that was over I had to find my second hour. It was in F House and I didn’t know where that was. So I asked someone and they ignored me because they were trying to find their class too but, I found it.