I'm sleeping. I'm the most peaceful I've been all night. Just as I switch my position to get more of the covers on me, the sound I've been dreading to hear all summer starts blasting into my left ear. I look to my left and my alarm clock is telling me that its 6 o'clock and time to get ready for my first day of high school. I sit down in front of my mirror. I get ready for what seems like days but was really only an hour. I didn't eat breakfast, I'm far too nervous to add to the already fluttering butterflies in my stomache.
After my mother and I pick up my best friend Kayla, we head towards the school that I'll offically be spending the next 4 years and the rest of my youth at. I look around, I know I'm not the only one who's nervous. The hallways are confusing and the classrooms are silent.
I don't have any trouble finding my classes, I have my older sister's friends take me to each one of them. The only problems I'm having are that i forgot 3 important things at home, my schedule, my locker combination, and a folder, 3 very important things for a first day of high school. The biggest problem though is lunch. My mother had packed me the same thing she had all throughout middle school, a dry peanut butter sandwich, a bottle of water that i could never finish, and about a million other little snacks. My friends Kayla-who is just as nervous as me, Amanda-who is probably more nervous than both of us put together, and brittney-who doesn't have a care in the world if she walked into the wrong classroom and embarrasses herself. We walk into the North Cafeteria for some place to sit. We see a table. We don't sit down, but debate in the one who should gather up the courage to go and sit down first. "You go first." "No, you go first." We argued for a few more minutes. I look over to see that the table is already filled with people. We walk to the South Cafeteria and almost the exact thing happens. At this point, I'm considering getting homeschooled. We're forced to sit on a bench outside the 2 cafeterias and eat our lunch there. I feel so foolish, all I can eat is a Rice Crispy Treat.
I go to the rest of my classes with no other problems at all, but i can still taste the Rice Crispy Treat and the memory of lunch. I push it out of my mind and I can't wait until my next day at high school.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
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Good job. I like the description you used in the first paragraph. How you described the way you had been dreading the first day all summer.
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