Circle

  Every year in the first day of school, we would meet at least a few new people who are complete strangers, and we would naturally want to give them good first impressions of ourselves. Introduction, ice-breaking, then followed by friendship. BUT what happens when one had given a great first impression to the entire class, but perhaps fail to maintain one's level of pro-activity?

  The first week of school was totally planned by our senior facilitators. Activities, games, flag-day. Activities were plain stupid. Games too. Maybe the ice-breaking stuff ain't so bad, since we got quite a good laugh at the potential joker of our class. What my class think of me is totally different from my secondary school: More open-minded, not afraid to share my views on stuff, and... Sociable? On the first day of school, I practically acquitted to more than simply my classmates, more than simply my course-mates. I even befriended strangers two years older than me from Accountancy course. I really acted out of impulse, I guess...

  Overall, I find my current classmates pretty cool. I am once again in a class with more girls than guys. I met quite a few classmates who share almost exactly the same personalities as my previous classmates. There was one who shared the same voice as my Secondary School friend, Terran, although more outspoken and open than him. Then there were a handful of girls who behave exactly the same as my previous classmates: One plastic, one book-worm, one talkative, one or two pretty reserved. My new friends were either 9-gaggers or fighters. Oh yeah, and there is this guy who often gets teased by us. He admitted being 1.85m tall during his last height-taking, and looked pretty much like a tank to us. He too is reserved, and he could take personal jokes, unlike The Depressed Guy...

  I should never have shown my classmates that I am capable of taking risks without fear... That happened on Tuesday, when we played an inter-school game of Dodge-ball. The losing team had to forfeit, and my class had a certain history of losing practically EVERY single activity. Yet, I encouraged them to take part. In the end my entire class but me were eliminated. Turned out that I was the last "survivor". Well, at least we won. That was the only thing we actually won among all the activities.

  What I feel of my new class is like we are a family of sorts. We did everything, including lunch breaks, as a class. We never leave out anyone, unless the person chose to. I just feel that this class is way better than my Upper-Secondary class, taking into account on how classmates don't care about your feelings when being left out, and only cared for their own opinions and not anyone else's, and they just HAVE to get everything in their way. This new class, like an actual business amalgamation, needs everyone's opinion before acting. That is one thing I am proud of, because I feel pretty much, though incomparable, to my Primary School cronies who would never forget anyone in the circle. Although I have to admit, if not for someone in my new class who won't drop her personal impression of me being an introvert, I would have felt more welcome. That concludes with the fact that I may still stick to my Primary School friends(I can consider them as childhood friends, since 9-years-old is still included as childhood) more than my new classmate-social-circle...

Friends: A treasure not found with a map and shovel.