The First Day of Collingwood

The First Day of Collingwood

     My new school is Collingwood. It is a really famous private school. In this summer, the leaders of Collingwood emailed my mom a lot about the school information. Some of them are about my new buddy, Tiana. They leader said that every new students will get a new buddy for the first few weeks to know the school better.

Today was the first day of my new school. It was only a 2 hours school day. The first hour is for knowing your buddy and they lead you to your classroom and teachers, show you your locker and show you the school.

I went inside the building and a teacher leaded me to the Grade 7 Library. Then I saw a few girls and a bunch of boys inside. They were chatting loudly. The teacher told them my name and gave me a light blue shirt with Collingwood logo and told me to put it over my shirt. The new students were all wearing the same shirt like me. And all the old students were wearing a dark blue shirt with the same Collingwood logo.

Then a girl walked up to me and asked, “You are Tracey right? I am Tiana, your buddy.” She is an Asian girl. She is about half head shorter than me. Her untied long hair was long to her butt. Her big eyes with single-fold-eyelid made me feel her simplicity.

“Yes I am.” I said and gave her a tight smile.

Then Tiana leaded me to her friends who are all wearing dark blue shirts, and introduced me to them. They all greeted without any shyness. They kept talking and one of the light blue shirt girl joined too. But I was too shy, so the other new girl and me stood beside and listened to them talking.

Then after all the people arrived, the teacher told the dark blue shirts to start working. Then I found out me and all the new Grade 7 girls and my and their buddies are in the same class! So we went together – they leaded us to the gym, the weight room, our classroom, and our lockers.

Our lockers are all with locks on it. The combos (passwords) are all been written on tape which were stuck on the back of the locks. The teacher taught us to use the locks and how to open the lock with our combos. I got it what she taught me to and I did what she told me to. However, I still can’t get it open. (Laugh out loud~)

Then our buddies leaded us to a “Theatre” and the headmaster and all the new Grade 7 boys and their buddies were in there. We were the last group arrived. (Laugh out loud again!)

The headmaster who is really old but psychic showed us a PowerPoint about being a good student and some simple rules about Collingwood School. He taught us we – the new students should start small and grow. We don’t need to be perfect. All we need to do is to do our best on every subject. He taught us to not to worry about making friends. He said every year, there was no students don’t get any friends at the end of the school year. He said maybe your friend will be there at the third term. He told us not to worry or try to impress people, because he guarantees that everyone will get a friend in this year.

He said we need to be honest on the tests and we need to respect our teachers, our student leaders, our classmates, and our school.

Then, all of us rushed outside and had BBQ on the bleachers. I had a hot dog, an Ice cream sandwich which was melting and a Coke. I was full of food and happiness with friends later. The sun was shining straight onto us. We all were complaining about the hot sunny day. After all of us finished eating, we moved onto the clean and pretty soccer field with short grass. We were chatting about our siblings and their class and classmates from last year. Most of my time was lying on the dry cool grass covering my eyes from the sun and listen to them talking.

Then later I made a friend, Barbara. She was really friendly and nice.

Later, all of the new students and their buddies took a photo together. Then all the new students got a new water bottle with Collingwood logo. I got one too! (Hehe, I just got a new water bottle a few days ago. Now I got another new one! Hahaha~)

I can’t believe I am coming here every day since now! How sweet!

It was a really happy 2 hours school day! Not only that, It is an awesome start of my Collingwood School life!!!