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On the night before I went to my new school, I couldn’t sleep at all. Irolled around in my bed trying my very best to get to sleep. However, I was

unsuccessful as I was too excited to go to my new secondary school. I spentthe whole night thinking about what would happen the next day.

Finally, it was 6.00a.m in the morning. The moment I opened my eyes,

I felt this surge of energy as it dawned on me then that since I was going toa secondary school, I was no longer a child and should learn to be

independent henceforth. With this newfound confidence, I announced to mymother that I would be going to school on my own but she insisted on

bringing me to school. When I realized it was pointless arguing with her, Idecided to let her have her way.

I hung my head low as I entered the MRT as I felt all eyes were on me

but I ignored them. Out of habit, I examined my uniform to see if everythingwas in place when I found out to my horror that my zip was undone! Imagine

my mortification and dismay then. Without drawing too much attention to

myself, I immediately zipped my pants up. I took sidelong glances to check if anyone had witnessed my shame and was glad that I was alone in mysuffering.

When I reached school, I felt rather embarrassed because I was theonly one whose mother had tagged along. After I sent her off, I took a goodlook at the surrounding and I found that the school was extremely beautiful.

But all that surrounded me were unfamiliar faces, faces that I could not plcea name to. I felt all alone and was overcome by a sense of longing as that

was when I began missing my primary school friends and teachers. I was lostand I didn’t know where to go next. Should I report to the hall, the parade

square or the classrooms? If so, where were all these places?

After studying the surrounding, I saw many students sitting at theparade square and so I followed their lead and located where my class was

supposed to sit and sat there silently.

After the pledge-taking exercise, we headed back to our classroom.The classroom I was assigned to appeared very conducive as it had two air-

conditioners and the whiteboard was huge. When we had settled down, wewere told to play some games but I kept quiet throughout the activity as Ididn’t speak to anyone.

Then, our facilitator instructed us to introduce ourselves to each otherand it was a scary experience as I had to speak to a group of strangers.

Finally we had recess and I discovered that the food sold at my new canteenwas very delicious. After that, we headed back to our class and our form

teacher told us the achievements of the school, her expectations and theprogrammes we would be having to orientate ourselves to the new school.

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At exactly 1.30pm, the school released us. As I walked out of school,I reckoned that I love this school, its conducive environment, the activities

and the people. Although I have yet to make any new friend, I was confidentthat I will make some soon!

Cheng Xue Jian Jeffrey (1B)