First day in a new place

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By Sarvinder saini

First day in a new place  

It was my first day of junior school, and I was beside myself with anxiety. It was early September, so logically it can’t have been too cold. However inside me was an icy cold feeling that affected my perception of all around me. It seemed to me that this day was like the coldest, darkest morning that I had ever woken up to in all my short 4 years of life so far.

I had not slept well the night before and I got up well before the rest of the family. I had spent the night tossing and turning with apprehensive thoughts chasing each other like cops and robbers. Dread was swimming around my head, like goldfish in a bowl. I was petrified by the thought of going to school on my own, where I knew no-one, and where I would be completely alone. In nursery school, I had my friend Adam, who had been with me since my first day. We had played together, got into scrapes together and been like twins.

Here, though, it was a completely different situation; I was going to be all alone, alone to enter a place I had never stepped foot in before.

When I first woke up on that day, I thought this would be the worst and most dreadful day of my life. When I actually dragged myself out of my bed (rather reluctantly mind you), my predictions started to come alive.  

I remember, that on the actual day, I had dressed myself in my new uniform, had had breakfast and was sitting uncomfortably in the sitting room, hoping that something would happen and the time I was dreading would never come.

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Finally, my father called me; I got up slowly and walked with him to the car. I stepped into the blue fiat, in which I had got in so many times before, but never with as much trepidation as this. My father then comforted me; he told me to work my hardest in school and said he was sure that I would have fun. He told me not to worry, as I would make many friends and learn a lot of new things.

These words of the wise converted me from being as frightened as the Cowardly Lion to as ...

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