Looking back I have always had my own little circle, no matter which schools or environment I lived in. I can still remember the first time I started attending middle school in the US. I started as a 7th grader to comply with my age and my studies back home. I was excited and terrified at the same time because I didn’t know english to begin with. The school board had put me in a class with other ESL students to start learning english with the help of a professional ESL teacher. I had to find people who spoke the same language (Bangla) as me so we can speak and help each other get through with our days in school. I spent quite a lot of after school hours over the years in middle school to master english language. By the end of 8th grade I could speak pretty easily and talk to anybody I wanted to but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t nervous to do so. I was still in my own little shell until I went to High School. It was easy to meet new people and talk to during lunch hours and gym, so I had my own little circle in my first high school I went to as a freshmen. I loved my freshmen year, with new faces, new environment and new opportunities. The school was 7 minutes walking distance which is why I chose to go there first. Sadly after my first year in that high school I had to change to a better school for better education.

As I started attending a new school with a new shell full of nervousness and shyness because freshmen year is the year you meet new people and have your own circle you hang out with. Since I started as a sophomore in my new high school it was really hard for me to know new people and converse with. I left all of my old friends in Transit Tech to a school full of strangers that I have never seen or imagined of meeting. As the year proceeded I did meet people, like last time, in my lunch period. Then I started getting along with people from my different classes as the school years went by and I graduated with my own circle that I have met throughout the school years and some of us still chats and we hang out time to time. I really appreciate my senior year, the year with a lot of fun memories with the people that I’ve befriended.