When most kids wake up on their first day of school, they wake up to an alarm clock, or their parents turning on the lights while telling them to get up. Well, sadly, I was not one of those kids. Instead, I woke up to the flash of a camera. The thing is, this was not just any old camera flash, it was my mom’s camera flash! I was quite aggravated, but decided to not let it get the best of me, because I was determined to have a good day, and a good day always starts with a good morning. When I went to brush my teeth, she was there again with the camera. I thought to myself, it is fine, and kept on with my normal school morning schedule. So I was getting in the car to go to drop off my little brother, Brent, to his school (Lee M. Waid) and noticed that my mom was sitting in the front seat next to my great-aunt, who is also our babysitter in the afternoons. After we had dropped off Brent, my mom pulls out her video camera and hands it to my great-aunt as she places her big Nikon camera in her lap. When I got out, I saw that dreaded flash again.
I walked into those large double doors, my excitement turned quickly into nervousness. It was almost as if I could feel my happiness and excitement drain from me slowly as I took each step getting closer to entering the school. At my locker, there were a lot of people in the hallway I knew. Once put my things were in the locker. I went to homeroom. In my homeroom class, and there were tons of my old friends, and as I was talking I noticed some of them were a little nervous and slightly confused, just like me. It built my courage to know that they were nervous too, so I took a seat next to some of my friends, and we talked for what seemed like only a few seconds before the bell rang. After fighting my nervousness, it was actually easy to get to all my classes quickly and on time. I was also excited to introduce myself to all my new teachers.
All of my classes seemed to start the same way, “Hello I’m going to be your ________ teacher this year, and these are my rules…” I seem to have some amazing teachers and, I am planning to have a wonderful year with all of them. After my long day of classes, seeing friends, and my fight with my slight fear, I got in the car to see my mom sitting in the passenger seat of my great-aunts old Honda Accord. This time, I was quite surprised, and even happier to see my mom smiling, and not holding that annoying camera in her hands.
So as long and nerve wrecking as it was, I think I had a great day. I have officially decided that I love seventh grade! I cannot wait until it really starts. I am so happy that I am not as nervous as I was this morning, because now I realize that there was nothing to worry about the whole time: no more fear, and no more flash.
