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Luis Miguel Orozco

Prof. Pushpa Mirchandani

English 102

5 September 2017

First Days In A New School

There is a very important moment in my life that I remember perfectly. This

moment was when I was moved from one high school to another in ninth grade. This

was a terrifying surprise to me since I didn’t know anyone from the other school. There

are two main reasons of why this moment marked me: first, I had more responsibilities

and second, I had to meet new people and make new friends. This wasn’t an easy

transition since I had to move from one type of education to another, with new courses,

new teachers, and new people. At first, fitting in a whole new community was difficult,

but once I got comfortable with the new environment I was able to fit right in.

Panamerican School was the first school I ever attended. It is located 15 minutes

from Panama City. When you enter the school you would see the parking lot in front

and the school in the back. It was a red and white structure with a big ark at the

entrance. This school teaches from 1st grade to 12th grade. The education here was

pretty good from 1st to 6th grade. The teachers really cared about the student; they

were really nice and comprehensive with the students. In this phase I had a lot of

friends, and I used to know everyone in my school because it wasn’t very big. It became

a problem when I enter high school. I still had my friends, but the education got worse.

The teachers didn’t know their subject, didn’t leave any homework, didn’t have control
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over the students, and everyone did what they wanted. My mother noticed that there

was a problem with this school and decided to move me right away to another one

called Academia Interamericana de Panama.

The 12th of February of 2012 was my first day in the new school. It was very

different from the old one. The AIP was a big school, and I didn’t know a single person.

In the morning my parents left me at the school, I walked through the hall nervously

and arrived at where the classrooms where. It was very different; there were four

rooms per grade instead of two. I began to walk to my classroom, which was the 9D. I

saw a lot of people that I had never seen in my life, so I walked in and sat in the left

corner at the end of the class. I saw everyone entering the class and saying hi to

everyone. Then the bell rang and the professor entered. His name was Dave Barrera. He

made each of the new students stand in the front and introduce our selves. The first one

to go was me; I stood in front of the entire class and said my name, my age, and my last

school´s name while everyone looked at me. It was like this with every professor.

In front of me sat a girl, she had very long hair and was kind of small. She turned

around and began asking me questions, and she talked to me. She was the first person

to talk to me in the school. I felt relieved and less nervous when finally someone in the

school, in which I didn’t know anyone, talked to me for the first time. When the recess

bell rang, everyone in the room got out fast and happy to talk to their friends and I

didn’t know anyone except for one new kid whom I knew not so well, so I stayed with

him the entire recess. We saw everyone talking and how there were a lot of different

groups of friends that were already formed, so it was kind of difficult to enter a group in

which we didn’t knew anyone. At the end of the day, I had just spoken to five or six
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persons, so it was at this point that I knew it was going to be kind of difficult to be part

of a group.

Three months from my first day I had made a couple of friends and I was getting

into a group. I began to feel more comfortable around these new people and started

being myself. This was the first step to making the awesome friends I made latter on. I

felt relieved to hang out with new friends instead of going around the school with the

only one person I knew. The months passed through and each day I was getting more

and more involved in this new community and each day I felt more part of the new

school, but it wasn’t until my second year that I started making really good friends. On

my second year, I was no longer the new kid, I had a group of friends with whom I

hangout no only on school but they also invited me to do activities with them on the

weekends. I never imagine these people would become nowadays the persons I hang

out with even thou where are no in high school anymore

My first days of school in the AIP were not easy at all. I didn’t felt that I was part of

this school until later on, but for me, it was worth it. The kind of friends and the kind of

education that I received at this school was the best thing that I have received in my

entire life. I have made a lot of friends and a couple of best friends. This transition in my

life was very difficult but worth it. I ended up with a quality of education that I was not

going to receive in any other place and I made friends that are irreplaceable.