New School, New Opportunities
Launch the media gallery 1 playerAt the beginning of the school year, when I first moved here, people would ask me if I was happy to be here.
I always found myself just smiling and saying “Yes, I am really happy to be here!” I would then proceed to tell them how I like going to a smaller school rather than being at a big school like my former school, Columbus High.
But now looking back at that last line, I can see that I lied to myself. The day before school started I was really excited. I was excited to be at a small school. But as a couple of weeks passed, I realized that I do miss going to a bigger school.
It isn’t at all because of the people here. It is because it is just so different only having 14 people in my small freshman class, and that people noticed me. People always assume that in a big school, you are judged more, but I have realized that in a big school, there are so many people, so they just don’t look at one person. It is much easier to fly under the radar. At a small school, more people notice you because everyone knows everyone.
Everyone in my freshman class is close with each other because they all grew up together. So for me, it has definitely felt hard to fit in at times. I don’t know the people in my class as well as they know each other, and they don’t know me. In Columbus, it was easy to fit in because most people didn’t go to the same elementary schools as others. They would just meet in middle school and become friends; they didn’t have any history with each other.
Coming into this new school, that was my situation, and to be honest, it still is to an extent. At the beginning, I said to myself that if I didn’t like it here, then I was going to go back to Columbus. Yet, here I am now, and for some reason I feel like I am supposed to be here. Like everything happens for a reason and this is the place I am meant to be. Being here hasn’t been all bad, and as I become more comfortable with each day, I can’t wait to see what the next few years have for me.