First days are always hard but when you have never been to a normal school
it is harder. As I enter that hallway all I feel is scared, I have never
been this scared in my entire life. I am holding my mums hand and every now
and then she squeezes it for comfort. To the outside eye I look almost
normal, almost. I wonder what mum will do when she finds out my IQ, do I
tell her, do I show the teachers, or do I just pretend. I am pretty good at
pretending after all, ok so pretend I can do that.
I take a deep breath and we walk into the principals office where he explains what classes I am going to be taking, maths, English, Geography, Social studies, Art and drama. How do they fit all that in one day (by the way that is me being sarcastic) ? He hands me a schedule and I look over it and wow only 6 hours that is different. I smile and mum lets go of my hand and looks at it too. He says something but I have tuned out and suddenly we are standing. I look up and he says "Ok Prudence" I interrupt him "Lin or Melinda or Mel take your pick but not Prudence". He smiles and says "Ok Melinda your first class is English how about I take you there and then I will talk to your mum alone". I shrug and say "Um ok". He takes me for a quick tour and then we are at a door, Room 12 C Block A.
He opens the door and goes in first and I hear him say "Miss Veledekis you have new student, (he waves me in and I step through the door) Melinda Halliwell" He hands the paperwork to my teacher and hurries out again. I look at her and notice she I s quite young and has long brown hair like mums and she is Greek. She smiles and says "Why don't you take a seat over by Ann-Marie!" I look up now and notice that the whole class is staring at me and whispering, I see a pretty red head put her hand up and I go and sit next to her. She smiles and says " Hi I'm Ann-Marie but everyone calls me Anna or Anna Maria depending on there mood". I smile at her and say "Prudence but everyone calls me Mel or Lin because of my middle name, I prefer Lin". She smiles and says "cool". I reach down into my bag and grab a book and my pencil case. Miss Veledekis says " Ok for the benefit of Melinda I will go through what I said a week ago, I am your English and Art teacher, Mrs Condell is your Social studies and Geography teacher and Mr Leary is your Maths and Drama teacher, we do this to get you ready for junior High next year but you stay in this class room ok. Your first subject is English, anyone want to guess what we are doing today?". Anna puts her hand up and says "Poetry". She smiles at her and says " Got it again Anna Maria Ok so you have 15 minutes to come up with a poem about Life." She writes this on the board and I start to write, good thing I read too much in witch training.
When I read what I wrote I smiled and looked over to see what Anna wrote and this is what it said :
Life is sweet Life is a treat I love to live this life Till the day I become his wife.
Short but sweet, I think. What exactly does that mean, does she stop having a life when she become a wife. Maybe she just didn't know what to write. Miss Veledekis stands up and says "Ok people lets here your poems, Who wants to read theirs? Daniel". Daniel has short brown hair and dark brown eyes and stands up and reads ;
It is red as it flows Like a river through my hands This is what we call life What keeps us alive. Our Blood is our life.
Miss Veledekis says "Gloomy and dark but I like it, it has some truth behind it, good poem Daniel, who else wants to read theirs, how about Melinda, lets see what you have?" I smile nervously and stand up and read in a shaky voice:
"The sky was black The grass hadn't grown back The elders dealt The pain she felt
Now she has a home A place to call her own She is happy she is care free Can you see how happy she can be?
People were dying Children were crying She grew up too fast But now that is in the past
She has a mum, a dad She can finally say she's not sad There will be no more strife Now that She has a life."
I take a deep breath and we walk into the principals office where he explains what classes I am going to be taking, maths, English, Geography, Social studies, Art and drama. How do they fit all that in one day (by the way that is me being sarcastic) ? He hands me a schedule and I look over it and wow only 6 hours that is different. I smile and mum lets go of my hand and looks at it too. He says something but I have tuned out and suddenly we are standing. I look up and he says "Ok Prudence" I interrupt him "Lin or Melinda or Mel take your pick but not Prudence". He smiles and says "Ok Melinda your first class is English how about I take you there and then I will talk to your mum alone". I shrug and say "Um ok". He takes me for a quick tour and then we are at a door, Room 12 C Block A.
He opens the door and goes in first and I hear him say "Miss Veledekis you have new student, (he waves me in and I step through the door) Melinda Halliwell" He hands the paperwork to my teacher and hurries out again. I look at her and notice she I s quite young and has long brown hair like mums and she is Greek. She smiles and says "Why don't you take a seat over by Ann-Marie!" I look up now and notice that the whole class is staring at me and whispering, I see a pretty red head put her hand up and I go and sit next to her. She smiles and says " Hi I'm Ann-Marie but everyone calls me Anna or Anna Maria depending on there mood". I smile at her and say "Prudence but everyone calls me Mel or Lin because of my middle name, I prefer Lin". She smiles and says "cool". I reach down into my bag and grab a book and my pencil case. Miss Veledekis says " Ok for the benefit of Melinda I will go through what I said a week ago, I am your English and Art teacher, Mrs Condell is your Social studies and Geography teacher and Mr Leary is your Maths and Drama teacher, we do this to get you ready for junior High next year but you stay in this class room ok. Your first subject is English, anyone want to guess what we are doing today?". Anna puts her hand up and says "Poetry". She smiles at her and says " Got it again Anna Maria Ok so you have 15 minutes to come up with a poem about Life." She writes this on the board and I start to write, good thing I read too much in witch training.
When I read what I wrote I smiled and looked over to see what Anna wrote and this is what it said :
Life is sweet Life is a treat I love to live this life Till the day I become his wife.
Short but sweet, I think. What exactly does that mean, does she stop having a life when she become a wife. Maybe she just didn't know what to write. Miss Veledekis stands up and says "Ok people lets here your poems, Who wants to read theirs? Daniel". Daniel has short brown hair and dark brown eyes and stands up and reads ;
It is red as it flows Like a river through my hands This is what we call life What keeps us alive. Our Blood is our life.
Miss Veledekis says "Gloomy and dark but I like it, it has some truth behind it, good poem Daniel, who else wants to read theirs, how about Melinda, lets see what you have?" I smile nervously and stand up and read in a shaky voice:
"The sky was black The grass hadn't grown back The elders dealt The pain she felt
Now she has a home A place to call her own She is happy she is care free Can you see how happy she can be?
People were dying Children were crying She grew up too fast But now that is in the past
She has a mum, a dad She can finally say she's not sad There will be no more strife Now that She has a life."