Change is seen differently by different people. Some accept it while others deny it, depending on their values and mentality. This is seen in many places in today’s world, like political models, society’s values, and debates on environment based on science. Similar to almost everyone, life presented me with a chance of change when I was fairly young, end of 4th grade to be exact. I was asked by my parents to switch schools from a local medium to international medium of studies in India. At the time my vision didn’t include much other than hanging out with my three best friends. All I cared about was not having to make new friends when I already had a known corner in an unknown world. What really scared me though was my tutors telling me that
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I tried my all to not sit in that van but as soon as I was in, I pretended to be one of the most joyous person around. I tried to crack some jokes including my ID and some nerdy fact about van and the petrol consumption which back fired, but it was still a great start. It was hard making any friends in the van since everybody seemed to have their own talking buddies. I was naturally secluded from the known part of the circle. In school though I had a chance of introducing myself and getting to know others. Schools in India have very different organization of students than in America. Everyone studies same subjects at different times and students are set into sections at random. Each section was about 35 to 50 students large. There is a high chance that few students don’t get any of their friends they know well. When it came to introducing myself, I froze up and all I could say was “I came from Divine Buds and I have one sibling”. That didn’t give a great introduction of myself but I couldn’t do anything about it. I tried to be hysterical about finding a common phoneme in other student’s name and that’s how I formed my first …show more content…
I wasn’t really excited about any of these courses and so I just looked forward to P.E and recess. I didn’t really have anyone to hang out with so I explored the campus of my new school. My classmates made it pretty well that they had their own group and while some weren’t completely closed off, they weren’t inviting either. I found a great place which had perfect shade from trees and monkey bar by it. This was my spot to eat lunch. I was pretty excited to find it and enjoy delicious food my mom packed for me. When we returned from recess it was time for studying environment. It felt easy because I had already learned the concepts everyone was learning in my new school. I answered few questions from general knowledge and from studying in Divine Buds. I felt important for once when I was the only one able to answer few questions. However, what I didn’t notice was that there are students who despised “new kid” trying to get familiar with teachers. This is where one group of students sitting at the back end of class tried to poach me on any mistake I could make. I eventually did say something stupid in my Bible study class since it was very new subject. The teacher didn’t seem to mind, but this group of students immediately took the opportunity to insult me and my previous school by saying “Is this the nonsense they taught you in your dumb school?” I didn’t have anything to reject that
I tried my all to not sit in that van but as soon as I was in, I pretended to be one of the most joyous person around. I tried to crack some jokes including my ID and some nerdy fact about van and the petrol consumption which back fired, but it was still a great start. It was hard making any friends in the van since everybody seemed to have their own talking buddies. I was naturally secluded from the known part of the circle. In school though I had a chance of introducing myself and getting to know others. Schools in India have very different organization of students than in America. Everyone studies same subjects at different times and students are set into sections at random. Each section was about 35 to 50 students large. There is a high chance that few students don’t get any of their friends they know well. When it came to introducing myself, I froze up and all I could say was “I came from Divine Buds and I have one sibling”. That didn’t give a great introduction of myself but I couldn’t do anything about it. I tried to be hysterical about finding a common phoneme in other student’s name and that’s how I formed my first …show more content…
I wasn’t really excited about any of these courses and so I just looked forward to P.E and recess. I didn’t really have anyone to hang out with so I explored the campus of my new school. My classmates made it pretty well that they had their own group and while some weren’t completely closed off, they weren’t inviting either. I found a great place which had perfect shade from trees and monkey bar by it. This was my spot to eat lunch. I was pretty excited to find it and enjoy delicious food my mom packed for me. When we returned from recess it was time for studying environment. It felt easy because I had already learned the concepts everyone was learning in my new school. I answered few questions from general knowledge and from studying in Divine Buds. I felt important for once when I was the only one able to answer few questions. However, what I didn’t notice was that there are students who despised “new kid” trying to get familiar with teachers. This is where one group of students sitting at the back end of class tried to poach me on any mistake I could make. I eventually did say something stupid in my Bible study class since it was very new subject. The teacher didn’t seem to mind, but this group of students immediately took the opportunity to insult me and my previous school by saying “Is this the nonsense they taught you in your dumb school?” I didn’t have anything to reject that