Today was a normal day. It’s not that hard being a student and trying to fit in. There is only one thing that bothers me; it is that everyone here has their own group of people who actually are so called "cool." There is a cool group which is a totally different group from the Spanish people and then there is "Your Nobody Knows Your Name Group." Here everyone is based on their individual group.

Today was a normal day. Normal meaning everything went wrong. I went to school as always but for some reason everyone was acting really nice to me. Has everyone noticed that I am here till now? Wow, a little late, but I will work with the little I have. I think I’m making friends. I made this one guy friend who’s really nice and I’ve even seen him outside of school. That’s practically the only person I’ve gotten along with the most. I’m also excited that I’m already picking my classes for my junior year.

Today is Valentines Day. It’s kind of sad not having a Valentine. Everyone is walking around exchanging gifts with boyfriends or girlfriends; it makes me feel real angry because I could have been doing that at Miramar High School ( my old school in Florida), if I had not been so careless. Most of today I’ve spent thinking about what my friends would have been doing and were they were planning to go today. I miss my old school terribly and I wish I were there.

Yet there’s another day of total nothing. No friends, no nada . . . Yet I’ve met a lot of new people, but I don’t consider them friends because I hardly know them. Sometimes I can’t even remember everyone’s name. I’m new and get considerered the new guy, but out of the two other high schools I’ve been to in Florida, this school has been the hardest to get accepted into by the student body.

Today was a little better. Today of all days, I’ve made a mess of new friends. My math class is the class I’ve gotten along with the most, out of all my seven classes. I like both the students and the teacher, and that doesn’t happen everyday. You want to know what class it is? It’s my math class, Mrs. Jordan’s math class. She’s great and easy to talk to. The students in that class are more into making new friends than in ignoring the new guy. I look forward to the next class.

I look forward to this day because I have cooking class. I love that we get to eat what we make, and it’s right before lunch so I don’t have to waste money in the lunchroom. We didn’t have a cooking class at Miramar High School, my old school. This is because nobody wanted to sign up for it and when they did have the class about 20 to 25 years ago they almost burned down the school. So, they took it off for good and put in Floral Design instead. Cooking Class is something positive about my new school.

Everything went fine today too. School is becoming a little bit easier to get along with. I’ve been to two other high schools, and this school has been the hardest to get accepted into by the students. Yet even though it’s hard, I am getting used to it a little bit. Like today we were playing volleyball in P.E. and like every other game I am not good at it. So every time the ball came my way I would duck and cover, because I thought the ball would hit my head. So this girl comes behind me and she starts yelling at me telling me better stop doing that. Who does she think she is telling me to stop? So that’s pretty much what I did today.

Today I have my eighth grade class. Aside from both my cooking and my math class I love this class. I look forward to coming to this class because the students really don’t care what I look like; they just love to have fun. I always have fun and end the class with a smile.

These snow days are really complicated! Today I didn’t bring the right books, thinking I had journalism instead of English CP 10. I was wrong. Thank goodness that the teachers understand. The next time I will know that we don’t skip classes. I woke up today thinking and wanting to know how my old school was. Also, I was thinking about how much the people at Miramar would have enjoyed not going to school, like I didn’t yesterday. In Florida the only reason we don’t go to school because of the weather is if there’s a hurricane and nobody likes hurricanes so, we are glad when it doesn’t happen. I miss Florida badly.