Ashwani Bhardwaj

This American Life Coursepack

Justin Jacobs

The First day

The first day is always the easiest. You go from being the teachers, seniors of the school, to the
newcomers of the school. But what a miss!
I imagined sitting in my Greyhound bus, still 400 miles from Language center international, as there was
delay due to confusion at transit center. It was the first day and I am going to miss everyones excitement
and fear. I looked around, I saw a bunch of bus passenger snoring tired around me, anxiously awaiting the
bus to reach destination.
By mid day I reached after delay of 4 hours catching my schedule from office, it was Trishas class, only
Hussain & Andrea was there from my old class, Gradually more and more people showed up, until I
could barely move. A few of them I recognized from my old semester. I saw Andrea and quickly rushed
over to join her, she was with Hussain in front row, sitting with new classmate from out of school. I saw
that they were deep in conversation and I didnt want to interrupt them, so I went over to Hussain instead.
As we were talking the bell went, so we said are goodbyes and rushed off to find our lines on the Scotts
class. This assembly was pretty, much small, just introducing the new 12 student.
Once we got into class, we got straight into it. First we had a tour around the school, and then we got
given our diaries, timetables and told which teachers we were going to have for each subject. At last the
long wait was over. We finally go given our locker numbers! Luckily I got given a top one, which is good
for me because Im tall.
As we were putting our bags away I couldnt help but wonder the rest of the day was going to be like. I
mean I was already having so much, how it could get any better. I thought I would miss primary school
but to tell you the truth, I dont. Well I do miss my old friends but high school rocks!
There was only a few minutes left so Scott (our Listening teacher) decided to go over a few rules. Half
way through the bell went. We all quickly ran out the door, curious and ready to explore this new world
we had just entered. There were only two people in my class from my previous semester, Andrea gave me
few tips from classes missed in the morning due to my travel....