First Two Days of High School! =D

[Rachel]

Thursday the fifteenth was my first day of high school and 9th grade and I was a Freshman! All summer I was so excited about high school and hardly nervous at all...until the night before. The night before the first day, I was very, very nervous and had trouble sleeping. Eventually though, I got to sleep and woke up and got ready for my first day. 

The bus was beyond crowded. Lots of Freshman had to sit three to a seat, including me. It wasn't too pleasant. The unlucky people on the end of the seat were basically on the floor and the Sophomores (10th graders) and Juniors (11th graders) were tripping all over them. Once we got to school and talked about buses with other students, we realized that your bus was either almost empty to the point where almost everyone got a seat to themselves or way overcrowded to the point where people had to sit three to a seat. Guess which one mine was.

Once we got to the school and in our classes, our teachers basically just went through the rules with us all day. It was extremely boring.

We have lunch shifts because of the 1,200 Freshmen in the building. There are three lunch shifts and it all depends on your fifth hour. I had zero classes with my friends so I had not a single friend during my lunch shift. Most of my friends were in the 2nd shift. One was in the first. I was in the third. I was alone at lunch. Luckily, however, we're allowed to use our phones during lunch so I just ate, talked to friends (who didn't go to my school and were therefore available to talk to) on Skype on my phone, and read my book. Being alone didn't bother me too much, but I really missed sitting by my friends at lunch. And what's worse, most of my friends had lunch with each other so it wasn't like the whole group was split apart...just I wasn't part of it anymore. On the first day, I didn't see a single friend at all. 

My next class was gym which was insanely different than gym in middle school, mainly the locker rooms. In middle school, the locker rooms were somewhat clean and spacious and comfortable. In high school, the locker rooms are old and disgusting, the lockers are the smallest I've ever seen, the locker room itself was very small and crowded, and the first thing you saw when you walked in were two stalls. In middle school, the locker room had like its own bathroom and the bathroom was big and clean and it even had like three showers that no one used, ever. There were lots of stalls in middle school and lots of people preferred to dress out in them. In high school, there's only two stalls and they're in the middle of the locker room, right by the door so I doubt there's going to be much dressing out in the stalls. That doesn't bother me much but I still would prefer to dress out in the stalls like I always did in middle school. Oh well. 

In gym, I talked to a girl named Teya a bit. After gym, in my next and last class of the day, I realized that she was in that class too so I sat next to her. The rest of the day wasn't bad. My overall impression of the first day was that I didn't really like it too much. My Science teacher was a lot of fun though. Someone knocked on the door during class and he went out and yelled, "If you knock on my door again, I'll have your head!" as loud as he could. He also told us of when he was a Junior, how he watched a Freshman set himself on fire in Science class. It was really funny. He seemed really laid-back and fun...and dressed like a janitor. 

Last year, a kinda-sorta friend named Josh came out to the school that he was gay. This year, he came to school with red in his hair and wearing red skinny jeans and a white T-shirt saying "I LIKE BOYS." Don't get me wrong, I have absolutely zero wrong with gays and I think it's great that he's not ashamed or embarrassed about it, but this is a high school full of judgmental people and wearing that probably wasn't the greatest idea on  his part. But anyway, I wish him the best.

The second day of school was much better than the first day of school and now I'm confident that I can get used to high school. Since we don't get to see each other during school, my friend and I met up at the front of the school before first hour and walked to our classes together. I'm really glad about that.

THANK YOU  to anyone who read all of this if anyone did, haha. Just wanted to share my first two days of high school.  

[Liz Winning]

How exciting! :) i was nervous for my first day as well, but once you establish a nice group of friends, you settle right in :)