Personal Narrative: August Pullman In A New School Environment

“Making a big life change is pretty scary. But, you know what’s even scarier?Regret.” This quote is from an anonymous person, but it relates because August made the decision to go to an ordinary public school for the first time and it was my first time going into public school. August and I had a choice whether or not he wanted to try public school and my choice was to attend public school or private school. My essay will examine how I can relate to August Pullman in a new school environment because I moved from Orlando, FL to Oxford just last year. I was excited at first about the first day of school, but when I got there I was really nervous. I could not stop thinking about what if I do not make any friends? What will the other students be like? My first day of school was similar to August’s because I had never been to public school before either, and like him, I wondered what the other kids would be like. The first day of school was nerve racking because although I knew where all my classes were, my mind kept going off topic thinking about who am I going to be friends with? What about lunch, who will sit with me if anybody at lunch? I had a million questions in my head and I could not stop thinking about them, I was …show more content…
There were so many students, I honestly did not know who to be friends with and who not to be friends with. As the first week of school passed I quickly found out who you do not want to be friends with unless you wanted to get in trouble. A few weeks into the first nine weeks of school, there was a girl ( who happens to be my best friend now) and she was reading Harry Potter which I happened to be reading as well. We soon became friends, then best friends because we have so much in common. August and Jack along with Summer are like my best friend and I. We are all similar because August and I were nervous about who will be my friend and how the other kids would react to