First day, play-by-play

so last night i typed an entire huge entry about the first day of school. My internet then cut out as i was saving it, and the entire thing was lost! so now i will recap the entire day for you, play-by-play style.

The morning walk to school was absolutley beautiful! The weather was so nice and there is a huge mountain close by. I barely noticed though, because i was so nervous!! And i had a good reason to be nervous... the school is so different and HUGE! There are 3 floors, and barely any room to walk anywhere. My first class of the day was art. The class was pretty good, the teacher taught an art history lesson, which i didnt understand much of. The most interesting part was the teacher herself... she was wearing jeans and a bliiabong tshirt, with black and blue long hair! I thought she was a student at first, and the students call teachers by their first names, so i then double thought she was a student. The teacher then asked the class to draw lines on a piece of paper to describe how we were feeling. I didnt know the instructions at that time, so i drew circles, and she put my paper on the board as an example of what joy looks like!
Between each class, there is a 15 minute break. I would enjoy this in my school at home, but in this school, there is nothing to do besides stand by your locker and get trampled by people.....
Next class was guitar, which i think i might drop out of, considering i dont play the guitar! It was a neat class, and again, the teacher was very cool. In this class, a boy asked me where i was from, and when i replied "winnipeg" he said something along the lines of... "youre egyptian!! whoa!" I tried to tell him i am not egyptian, but he wouldnt listen. Now half of that class thinks i am from egypt. maybe its a good thing i am switching out....
Next was lunch. Lunch class was an hour and a half, and again there was not much to do. I sat with Julie and her friends and tried to follow the conversation, but the accents are so thick and they speak so fast, it was difficult! I did notice alot of things about the people in the cafeteria, and here they are in the form of an in/out list...

In

* Piercings (everyone has them. I have never seen so many different and unique facial piercings in my life)
*Jeans (teachers and students wear them all the time)
*Ponytails (it blew my mind how many girls were wearing them.....)
*Boots with heels ( my blue suede boots in winnipeg would be well appreciated here)

Out

* Driving to school (there are always like 100 buses in the parking lot. Thats right, the school bus is once again cool)
*Purses ( I saw 3 girls carrying purses all day)
*Leggings ( Dont worry. I'll bring them back...)

Thats all i can think of for now. everything here is just so different!! Also during lunch, i made the mistake of going to the washroom.... The washrooms are about 5 times the size of the school washrooms in winnipeg, and they are always full of people! I tried to get into a stall, and girls would push past me right in front of the door!!

After lunch was math. I was actually looking forward to this, because i thought i might just be able to sit in the back and blend in. No such luck. The teacher singled me out several times, because i didnt have the right calcultator!! I did make a good conversation with a boy in my class though. Which i am proud of!
Finally we had french class, in which i didnt do anything because we had a substitute teacher! The walk home from school was really nice, because Julie and I had a very good conversation. It was the first conversation ive had with anyone, where i was not searching for words or just smiling and nodding. I improved so much already today, I am very excited!

The day was long and difficult, but i am glad it is over with. At night, i went skating with julie's mum and little sister. The skating trail was very nice, and of course, they had celine dion music playing!

I made it through the first day, so i can make it through anything!

Carly