Personal Narrative: My Life Changing School

Changing schools can be important to a kid. Kids spend most of their time in school. I didn’t like the school I was in at the time, but I was fearful of transferring to a school I liked even less. I was in the sixth grade and already made some friends, but they were mostly to pass the time. It was a K-8 school and I was there since the third grade so I was accustomed to the school. Although I dreaded the switch before starting in the new school, I actually enjoyed the first day and it wasn’t until the next year that I realized the change turned out for the better.
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