Whelp, everyone else is doing this so why not me?? Besides, so many people are asking how my first day went and I'm kinda lazy to give everyone an individual summary. So...the best idea is to do it here.

So yeah...I'm a ninth grader now. I keep thinking that I'm still an eighth grader because...idk. Like when some teacher refers us (the ninth grades) as freshmen, I just stop whatever I'm doing and just think about how far I've come.

Anyways, enough with the boring crap. Now let's hear how I survived my first day.

I was driven to school by my mom. Like I had no idea what I was supposed to go so I told my mom to drop me off instead of taking the bus. I legit had an argument with my mom last night saying that I wanted to be driven to school on certain days. Those days being Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. But then my mom ranted about how my dad had to get to work.

What I don't understand is my dad used to drop my off at my middle school at 7:12 am! I was alone until another 5 minutes and then some kids started to come. But my friends would come around 7:40-ish sooooo I just stood there listening to music and trying my best to avoid all eye contact with teachers who walked by me to get to their classrooms.

But anyways, some days I'll be forced to take the bus and some days I'll be driven.

Ughhh

So I just stood in the main lobby with like a bunch of other freshmen waiting for my friends to arrive. Honestly something I hate is my homeroom is on the second floor while my friends' is on the third. I know sometimes you don't go to homeroom in high school but still. I need to walk with people in order to survive. My life depends on others.

And sometimes I like being independent, especially when I'm in a class with people I don't know well.

Hahahaha we'll get to that later.

After an extended homeroom, I went to my first period class. Thank god my friend was in it. I would've died. Like there are some kids in there that I already HATE

Anyways my History teacher had some humor. Like for the first 5 minutes of class he was staring at every student. Probably because we didn't say hello back. I mean...I'm too socially awkward to do that soooo

And when he said our names, (he said my entire name correctly which makes me happy) he just looked at our face for a few moments so he can know who's who.

Yeah...fun teacher

I was trying to hold in my smile/laugh but I honestly couldn't. I'm pretty good at Try Not To Laugh Challenges so if you just have my history teacher staring at you for a few moments on there, I'm guaranteed to laugh.

After that I had Math. No friends in that class though. I mean there's a girl I know from middle school but we aren't close at all. I just sat there next to her for a few minutes and then the teacher arranged us in alphabetical order.

Honestly, I think I'll do okay in math. I like shapes so how hard can it be?

Jk I'm probably gonna fail the first term because who can do math anyways???

I'll give you guys a hint

Not me

After that I had an art class so my friend walked with me there.

Scratch that I kinda led her to it because she didn't know where it was.

But oh my god the stairs are so crowded. Like it takes forever to go down them and there's like 50 stairwells all over the school.

There's also an elevator but I have a childhood fear of them. I'll explain that in another chapter.

Oh and I watched an anime of Pretty Little Liars like two weeks ago and something happened with Emily and Jason in an elevator and now I'm officially scared to ever ride them again

So yeah art was okay. You just sat down and the teacher went over the rules. I technically sit next to one of my friends. I just don't share a drawer with her. I'm with some snake who probably hates me. Like I don't even know you so why must you hate me??????

Then I had Spanish. Advanced honors Spanish to be exact. My other classes are all honors, except that. Which means Spanish is gonna be hard.

And I completely forgot about what I learned in Spanish last year so I'm screwed.

In Spanish we had to do some class activity where we introduced ourselves to the person who sat next to you. See, the smart thing to do is to sit with your friend so you'll be more comfortable with them. That's what I did.

But like I don't know how to speak Spanish anymore soooo rip me 2017

All was good until our teacher said to introduce the person you were sitting beside to, to the class, and share their interests.

yeah I wasn't prepared at all.

And then the teacher said we could become an alter ego in this class, which means you could pick a name from some paper that was handed to you.

I found nothing I liked on the paper. Like the names totally don't fit me. Except Sofía, but that was already taken.

My friend said she wanted to be called Lana because she loved Lana Del Ray. I was okay with that. I just told the teacher that I wanted to be called Nicoletta but with a Spanish accent.....

Makes life much more easier for everyone.

Then there was lunch and I was in that lunch line for like 10 minutes. It went by wicked slow and it pissed me off. But to be honest with you guys, I wasn't that hungry. Like we had a really early lunch and I ate oatmeal and that kinda fills me up for a few hours. So rip half eaten cheeseburger 2017

We had some "activity" stuff afterwards. Aka you sitting down in a seat for 20 minutes listening to people talk about high school.

Pretty boring.

After that we went to homeroom again to set up computers and then...

Everything went downhill from there

English was next. I had no idea who was in that class. I was one of the first to walk in and while the other kids started to enter the classroom, I immediately said to myself "I think I'm in the wrong class. This place has a bunch of smart people in it..."

I knew a few people in there but I'm not close to them. So that's the class I'm mainly worried about.

Also the teacher said to bring in our book we read over the summer but um...I borrowed my books at the library. At least she might have one of the books. I found out today that we're reading To Kill A Mockingbird but I already read that over the summer sooooooo

Crap the teacher is gonna call on me to answer all the questions because I already know what happens!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1

After that mess, I had gym. My gym class consists of 12 kids....

For some reason boys and girls are together again. Like seventh and eighth grade was like "ooooooo we're gonna separate you guys!1!1!" And now it's like "ha! Tricked ya! Boys and girls are in the same gym class again!1!1!1!"

Gotta hate life.

Okay so I honestly don't know anyone in that class. Well...I kinda do. There's some girl who goes to church with me and she's there but she has her friends and they were nice and they were talking to me.

Like I can tell they were talking to me because they were giving me eye contact so that makes me feel appreciated??????

But you know what...we shouldn't judge people on how they look like on the outside. Because on the inside, they can be really nice people.

Unless they're f boys or snakes then you just ignore them.

I'm such a good human

Finally there was Biology. I had to walk all the way from the gym to the second floor. Not that bad but still. Lots of traffic jams.

The class was okay. The teacher's nice and all. I just don't have any friends in it though. Except that one from math but we aren't close sooooo

Whelp that was my first day of high school!

Umm...it was okay. I think I've developed a fear of crowds. I mean...I am claustrophobic and all, but I think there's an actual fear of crowds.

As long as I have people in know in my classes, I'll be okay. Except for English.

Aww man, I really liked English too. It's a good subject, but I don't like writing essays. I'm more of a free-writer. That's why I write cringey fanfiction, kids

-Nikki