I didn’t think about the change much that summer. I passed the school multiple times since it was walking distance from my new home, but I didn’t pay any mind to it. At this point I just accepted the change; I was going to a new school and I couldn’t do anything about it. My mom took me to an orientation for new …show more content…
Before class the students could hang out around the school, play basketball if they brought their own ball, or eat breakfast in the cafeteria. Since I didn’t know anyone I decided to head straight to class. I was waiting outside my homeroom class for a good ten minutes, waiting for the teacher to arrive, before a classmate introduced himself. We started to converse and found out we had plenty in common. This stuck out to me. The students in the previous school were stuck up, surly, and wouldn’t socialize with anyone they weren’t already acquainted with whereas the students in this school were amiable and welcoming. I met that same classmate again in another class later in the day where he introduced me to another friend of his. That experience gave me the confidence to socialize and make friends of my own. By the end of the year I found my way into 2 cliques that I would occasionally hang out with. Despite having a better social life, it wasn’t until the next year that I felt I fit