Memories of the Morning-First day of High School

As, I walked out of my parents car into a cold September morning I slowly whispered under my breath, slightly smiling, “This is it isn’t it?” I stumbled through the doors of a building I was only a little bit familiar with and began a very different kind of adventure than middle school still unsure of how the day would unfold. Four hours later, believe it or not, I was in a good mood. I had made it through the morning relatively easy and the best part of all, it was lunch. Despite how crowded it was in the north cafeteria, I made my way to a half filled table. I sat down with a mix of people I have known for years and people I had just met that day. I was bombarded with the usual questions that occur on the first day of any school year. “What did you do today?” was one of the most common of these questions. When I was asked that, I sat back in my chair and recalled my morning.

I told of when I wandered into Mrs. Bergeski’s classroom, a large room lined with all sorts of posters, with a cluster of students swarming the seating chart like bees swarm flowers on a summer day. Being in a whole new school entirely I didn’t expect to know a lot of people in this class. However, I immediately recognized faces. My global education class was filled with people I had gone to school with the past nine years. “So I sat down and had a fun class.” I finished. We took turns asking around the table as to how things went that first morning, eating our lunch simultaneously. As though it had come too soon, the bell for the second half of fourth hour rang. I stood up said my goodbyes and went back into the crowded halls, a scene I could of never imagined until I saw it. Weaving through what felt like a busy city street I thought to myself, “I already did the hard part; the afternoon should be a piece of cake.” As I walked back to class I felt happy that the first day had gone okay so far. I sat back paid attention and enjoyed the rest of my day. The first day went a lot better than I thought after all.