My School Experience

On the first day of school I was extremely nervous. I told my friend Alessia and she told me that she would call me and I would meet her at her house so she could take me to the school. When we got there, there was a huge crowd outside the entrance. After pushing past a bunch of people I asked the principal if she would tell me what to do because I had no idea what was going on. She told me to follow another woman who was in the office. When I got to the classroom everyone was already seated and staring at me. The teacher started talking a million mph and when I told her I didn't understand, she asked where I was from. I explained that I was from the US and Georgia. Everyone started talking immediately. She told me to sit down and asked the class to introduce themselves to me. I found out today that she is my art teacher.

There was a knock on the door and my French teacher came in. She knows some English and was very interested in me. She asked me to name all the months in English in front of the class and repeat the Italian words after her. Then she asked my classmates some questions and she closed the blinds and showed the projector on the wall. We then answered French questions on some website.

The next teacher who came in talked even faster and started telling a story. I didn't understand much of it at all. He was hard to talk to because he has a lazy eye and you can't tell if he is looking at you or not.

The English teacher came in last for that day and she is super tan and wears a lot of makeup, but she is nice and spoke slowly for me. I like her the best, no big surprise.

Today Alessia did not accompany me, but I did just fine. I got the card for signing into the school that I didn't have my first day and pushed through the crowd to the machine that scans the card. Several of my classmates said hi outside to me and one girl waited for me when I was signing in. She walked with me to the classroom. She is one of the girls who is on the volleyball team (we went to practice on Wednesday and might be attending again on Friday).

My first teacher today was the same teacher with the lazy eye that I had the first day. He is my geography teacher. I still had a hard time understanding him, but we were talking about the planets and stuff I already knew so it wasn't too bad for homework today. I only had geography homework today.

I met another teacher today. He is a technology/science teacher. We only talked about energy today, but I found it pretty interesting. He gave me a long list of materials I need by Monday.

I also had my art teacher again and she got a little impatient because some of the boys were laughing loudly over some joke. The girl who I sit next to is 17 and she is from Albania. She and I got a compliment today because the teacher noticed we were both quiet and concentrating on what she was saying. She also gave me a list of materials that I need by Monday.

Even though school is really tiring and hard for me I really like having other kids my age in my class. It's also nice how interested the other students are in me, in a good way, because I'm American. The other classmates are very kind to me and they help me understand a little bit better when I ask for help. I'm sure school will be great once I learn Italian. Although I am nervous about tomorrow because I have math class and I haven't met that teacher yet and math is a difficult subject for me.

Love,
Ashley