First Day of School Essay

As I walked into my new school on the first day I was completely petrified. I have never experienced a scarier thing than walking into a new school half way through the year and being the new girl. I knew nobody, not one person. I felt alone in this big world called Middle School. My first day went okay, I mean everybody stared at me ask me for my name and I just was that new quiet girl who didn't say anything. The hardest part of the day was lunch I sat in the bathroom all alone hearing…

“You have a booger in your nose.” those were the first words spoken to me on my first day of high school, public high school at least. Everything felt new, even though I had been in an environment just like this all of my grade school years. Actually, everything didn’t just feel new, they were new. I realized that every single friend I had in grade school, had changed, dramatically. We weren’t playing kickball on the playground anymore, they had grown up just as I did. Plus, I wouldn’t be with…

In the short story, “First Day of School” by R.V. Cassill, it is about a boy named John who is going to start a school year at an all-white high school for the first time and for the end of segregation of schools. In the historical dramatization, “The Fight for What’s Right” by Spencer Kayden, a girl named Sylvia Mendez is not allowed to go to an all-white school, so they make a law case for desegregation for schools. The 2 different texts support the topic of desegregation with similarities and…

Today was my first day of school and I was really excited. We just moved from Alabama. I knew someone from the school because our school made it to this really big tournament in a small town for soccer, and so did her school. It was about 3 schools from almost every state. Everybody booked at a certain hotel for some reason and they overbooked, so they thought we were on the same soccer team, and asked if you guys wanted to have a double bed room. At first we were a little skeptical, but we said…

(Insert date this happened) was like any other day. I went to all of my classes and hung out with on the swing with my friends. I heard the bell ring telling us it was time to go home. I skipped to my locker, grabbed my backpack and jacket, and headed to the bus. The house smelled amazing when I got home. I found my mom in the kitchen and told her about my day as I do every day. Then she said something I don’t hear a lot. Mom said, “Your dad and I want to talk to you when he gets home”. It was…

and I was heading back to Lithonia High School. Although I was not happy about everything that occurred during the weekend, I was happy to go back to school and hook back up with my friends. Therefore, on Monday morning when my alarm went off I got up and searched eagerly through the limited clothes in my part of the tube and found something cute to wear for my first day. Then I put my hair in a ponytail and got in the car with my brother to head to school. As we zoomed down the road trying not…

doing. After that first day, I begged my mum to let me join the martial arts school. The next day, I went back. I pulled the white bag over my head and laughed as my teacher had to roll the sleeves up so it looked more like a uniform and less like a bag. I was taught how to tie the paper white belt on and who to properly bow and turn my back on the higher belts when adjusting the uniform. Some time passes and more kids join while others quit, but the excitement of that first day never truly…

Experience I remember my first day of middle school like it was yesterday. I was about ten years old and very nervous. I’m not sure why though, because when entering middle school I already almost everybody in the grade. I probably thought that Ridgway was gonna be like a mini version of those high school, where there were huge bullies and people getting shoved into lockers. But it wasn’t like that all. I did have to get used to new teachers and the scheduling, but at the end of the day it…

It was the first day of 8th grade at Nagel Middle School, I was alone and friendless on team 8-1, most of my friends from last year were on different teams. So during lunch I ended up sitting with Jenna Walsh a girl I knew from book club last year, her twin Alex and another girl I had gym with the previous year, Samantha Beinke. Although it was quite sunny outside, the temperature in the cafeteria felt like it was below freezing point. I turned towards Jenna about to voice my opinion on how the…

body the second you step foot outside. However, the cold air that day wasn’t what made my mind wander, rather it was set on the one thing I love doing most-- basketball. It was the day I had been waiting for since I signed up; tryouts for Indiana Elite SWISH were finally here. I awoke that day and got dressed in a pair of burgundy, Pike Central basketball gym shorts, a Pike Central t-shirt, black Nike basketball socks and I waited all day until my mom finally told me that it was time to leave. I…