For the past nine years I've been driving by Sandwich High School, staring up at the giant brick building, thinking "One day, I'll be graduating there." Three weeks ago, I took my first step towards graduation.
When you walk into the gargantuan brick building you automatically get discombobulated. Three floors, about a hundred rooms, roughly six hundred fifty people (including teachers) walking up and down the hallways, long hallways that turn this way and that... within five minutes, you're bound to get lost.
Thankfully, there are some friendly upperclassmen that have been through this first-day anxiety, and know where everything is. I remember on my first day I got lost looking for the Algebra room, and a Senior pointed it out. Turns out I was only about ten feet away from the room.
Don't even get me started on the daily schedule. Everyone's schedule is different. All the classes get out at different times. The schedule is so complicated, there's even a separate schedule for lunch period! And to make matters worse, as soon a you get used to one schedule, it totally changes the next week, and you're brain has to recalculate a route for you to get to each class on time, and in the correct order. Your brain becomes something like those annoying little GPS systems people get for their cars. You think you know the right way to go, but the system gives you much more confusing route.
Walk fifty feet, then turn left.
"No, I'm pretty sure, I keep going straight."
Walk two feet, then turn left.
"Sorry, but I'm still not turning."
Recalculating... walk twenty feet, then make legal U-turn.
"What are you talking about? My class is right here!"
Now approaching... Girl's Bathroom.
"Crap!"
But it's actually not that bad, because I have my mental GPS's voice set to a sexy swimsuit model voice, so it's kind of soothing... Better than that nagging voice you usually get with GPS systems.
Anywho, I've adapted to life as a Freshman fairly quickly, and, I never thought I'd ever say this in my life, but I'm actually glad to be in school. It's actually pretty fun. I'm participating in some after-school clubs, such as Knights Theater Company (our school mascot is a blue knight), (We had a very interesting conversation about sleep-walking, and the never-ending expansion of the universe in that club.)
I'm also glad to say I'm scoring proficiently in all of my classes, which is a huge improvement for me. So far, high school looks like it will be quite an experience, and this is only the beginning.
Yours in awesomeness,
~Ry.
