Junior High

Summer is just the days that we enjoy and cherish to be with our family and friends. Just relaxing and not always being in a rush is what summer vacation is all about. But as time goes by, we notice that our "happy" days disappear little by little...

Then I kept thinking a lot about the upcoming school year. I begin to think about being a Junior. Like, "What's going to happen on the first day?" "Are the third year teachers strict?" "Am I going to have harmonious relationships with my classmates, or not?" Many questions came in my mind and I just became nervous about what's going to happen this school year.

Coming inside the classroom, we arranged our things and sat quietly while waiting for the adviser to tell us what to do. I've heard students say that Ma'am May is a strict person. Like, really strict and scary, or strict but nice? Questions came racing in my mind. "Is Ma'am May a really strict teacher or an outgoing one?" I also expected and hoped that the others teachers were not scary.

But when as the discussion went on, I realized that Ma'am May was really fun to be with. She explained the Dos and the Don'ts in the classroom and that she is strict in the cleanliness and the arrangements in the room.

She has a lot of sense of humor and so are the other subject teachers. And I also thought of her as an approachable person.

Knowing my classmates' attitudes is not quite a challenge for me, since I know a lot of them already. But what I do expect of them is to just be themselves and have fun inside and outside of the classroom. I really enjoyed the first two weeks of school and I just hope that it would be like that until the rest of the school year. 

But I just kept thinking that this was just only the beginning. I think that this year will be harder and more challenging. More homework, assignments and projects. And tons of pressure. But I think that this school year will be lots and lots of fun.