Friends and School

At the beginning of the year, I was nervous. I didn’t say a thing; I stayed quiet for mostly the whole time, looking around the whole school, trying to make my place in my new school. When I got to English class, this random kid came up to me, to ask me a question that would start our friendship.

“Hi. Do you like games?”

I said yes, and we began talking about our most favorites and least favorites. He told me his name, Vigan Osmani, and the most unknown country for me at that time, Albania. We began talking for the whole school time, and we sat alone in lunch, too embarrassed to see anyone else. People began to come to our lonely table, talking to us, making us happy and confortable. A day passed, and I started to like this school, since people where being much nicer than I expected.

One tall Danish kid came up to our table and asked us to come. They were watching some videos about Halo 3, and before we knew it, we were the newest members of the table. We got some tables and joined the fun. We spent the whole time in that table, laughing, making jokes to each other, and it was the beginning of new community in our new school. Later on, I began to know about all the teachers, and to begin socializing with other people around the school, talking to other people of the school, in order to get to know more people.

Over the year, I began to realize even more about my comrades. I realized that Vigan was obsessed with games, always every month he would talk about a new game coming out and then copying parts of the game and pretending he was one of the characters, like one recent one in which he would hit people with the “ultimate spider” move from a fighting game which was coming out. Mikkel would then always make weird faces, including his strange big smile, which I would always laugh at, and would also make weird funny noises on lunch. Max, another kid from the table, was known as the funniest, also known to normally saying things like

“JK, lol”

And

“Jaye’s jealous of Natalie Portman”

He also is normally very lazy in P.E. so we always hang out with Josh Tywater, another friend I recently made, and try to play chess for the whole class. Brandon was also another one from the table, but in which I almost never talk to since I don’t have any classes with him. We mostly just talk at lunch, making jokes about Vigan and throwing things at each other. In this year I learned a lot about this school, knowing of how to deal with some people, what to do in order to make some teachers happy, and how to be organized.

Most importantly, I finally learned to like math, thanks to Mr. Borras, who actually explained to me things easier, and instead of having a C in math, in which I had in my old school, I now have the highest grade in my class, with 105% in my progress report. I have grown to like the school and I’ve started to believe I am actually better here, than in my prior one, and I am now ready to go to high school.