Adaptation

Name: Omar Hinojosa

Class: H

Adaptation

I was ten years old when I received the news. On my way back from home, my mom greeted me with a pleasant surprise. I had been accepted into Synapse school! This news was so great I almost went into my room crying tears of joy.

Soon after, my dad and brother came home, and we told them the news as well. They were as happy as I was. At the time I went to a school called Selby Lane Elementary School. I wanted to switch from this school, not because it was bad, but because I got offered by a program if I wanted to apply to private schools. So, I thought, “Why not?” I ended up finishing the school year and I tried to keep this note to myself. If anyone asked me how if I got accepted into a school I would tell them. After I finished the year I said goodbye to my friends and headed into the summer. Soon after summer, it was time for school. 

It was the day of the Ice Cream Social, which is an event held the day before the first day of school for you to talk with your friends and meet new people. However, this was a really awkward time for me knowing I was new and knew almost no one. So, I was mostly away from the attention and met my teachers. At first encounter, this school seemed very small which I felt like it was right for me. There were a lot of crowds of just friends walking. It looked like there were just multiple groups of people that knew each other. In this situation, I didn’t really know what to do or say. However, once we got to meet our advisories I was greeted by a student who seemed to be very nice. For the rest of the social, I was mostly just with and talking about what we like to do. This reunion with the advisory was mostly just playing ice breaker games and getting to know each other better and soon after the social ended. After the Ice cream social, I went home and thought of what I was going to do tomorrow, I was feeling really nervous about the next day because I didn’t really know what to expect. It was my first full day at a new school. 

The next day, I got ready for my first day of school. I was making my emotional status better and just saying it will be fine. After I packed all of my stuff and went to school. After I was dropped off  I looked at my schedule and saw what I had at that moment, I had morning P.E. which is just to get the body moving and the brain flowing for the rest of the school day. I proceeded to finish the day all well and after a couple of weeks, I got used to the learning here. After some weeks of school, I felt like I understood what this school valued and I felt like a member of this community. So after that, I finally had a good group of friends to be with. Next, the actual set of classes finally started and I finally felt like I was at school. But as I was starting to finally enjoy school, something happened.
I was focusing on other things more than I was on my schoolwork. This led me to fall really behind in my classes. This forced me to not be performing my best on most things, and I always felt like I had to be doing work. This caused me to stress a lot and have to do a lot of work, some from even the beginning of the year while it was already December. This was a really stressful time because I was almost doing school work all day and I didn’t have time to do much else. After probably about a month of doing this, I finally was caught up with my work. After, it literally felt like I was trying to avoid everyone because I hadn’t talked to them in a long time. I didn’t even know how to talk to them, they felt like strangers now. I tried to talk to them and I did, but it felt so awkward. Over time I felt as things were getting better but they never felt completely comfortable for me. I felt that like 3 months after that it was all going good for me.

It was May, and as we were approaching the end of the year, I thought “Wow this was a really fun and adventurous school.” When I completely adapted, I didn’t feel like I would have to have someone wake me up in the morning. I was the person who was eager to go to school. This was the best experience of my life because in my past experiences I would always hate going to school. I even felt weird thinking that I liked going to school. Well by now I felt like I was completely adjusted to going to school. This is the story of how I adjusted to Synapse.