the First Day

Well well, what to say. School has officially begun. The first day experience was like none other... not. It was just like every first day I have had in my lifetime. It starts out with me heading out early convinced I am going to get lost, and in doing so pack everything I would possibly need (and happen to not need on the first day) into my bag making it extremely heavy and not the funnest thing to lug around. Then after wandering the campus a good while and finally finding my first class, I find a bench to sit on for a good twenty minutes before class starts. When the time finally comes for me to enter the classroom, the real feel of first days sets in. The eery silence that everyone sits in before the teacher enters. Its the kind of silence that everyone wants to break, but can't because if you are caught being the only one in the room talking, it turns from an eery silence to an awkward conversation that the whole the class only moans, nods and sometimes throws in a pity laugh into. There is the ever popular "Man, it is quite in here!" phrase that is muttered by the somewhat outgoing people in the class, but again that gets meerly a groan and then nothing. Thankfully, after these few almost painful minutes, the teacher/professor/instructor enters, and breaks up the awkwardness of the silence. Now in any other school the "overseer" we will call him stands in the front of the room, possibly writes his name on the board, tells you what to expect from the class, and sometimes, pulls out a get to know you game. It happened to be no different here. I don't know exactly what I was expecting, but that is precisely what I got. A get to know you game? In college? I thought I got a little old for that in middle school, but no here we are once again. I can only imagine the over twenty year olds enjoying that much less then I do. The best part about those games are that you say your name twenty plus times, and three remember it. From there I get three more classes of this same situation over the space of two days. But they are over now, and I am on to bigger and better things. Like the homework.