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Panic Surfaces

as Summer Ends

he couldn't believe it. Her alarm went off and she was in a good mood-on the first day.
-s was only 6:15a.m. She thought that Gosh. This couldn't be the same school. It
and it
there must be something wrong-the sui} smelled clean, and oh no-the floor even shined.
wasn't even up yet. " Oh my gosh," she said, " The lockers were unmarked, too, and all the
it 's the first day of school, and summer is over!" water fountains worked right. But, it was so cold
What would she wear? She knew she had in the school, she knew that she should have worn
picked an outfit out last night, but was it right? a sweater. She saw ten other girls that had them
What was everyone else going to have on?" on. Now she looked like an outcast!
Maybe shorts. No-what if it's cold in school? First stop at school was a classroom to get
Maybe a sweater or . .. oh well, I'll just wear what her schedule. She then had until 8:00 a.m. to
I chose last night." compare her classes with her friends'. She found
As she dashed out the door, she realized that out that no one she knew was in any of them. Next
in her rush to find the right thing to wear, she it was on to advisement where she received her
didn't eat anything for breakfast. There just locker combination. When she went to open it, she
wasn't any time for it . Well, even if she were discovered that it was in the corner. It took four
- hungry, she could still look forward to seeing all tries, but she finally got it. After that, she had five
of her friends when she got to school. minutes to get to her first hour class on time.
Her ride wasn't there! It was a quarter to She couldn't believe it! Almost all of her
eight and the driveway was empty. She had told teachers had seating charts made, and of course,
her mother that this carpooling wouldn't work. As she was put by no one she knew. All of her books
she opened the door to go in and call them, they looked like they were at least 20 years old. She
- finally pulled into the driveway. Since she was the had to fill out book cards in each class and put
last to be picked up, she was the one stuck next her schedule on the back. To top it all off, her
to the driver. She didn't even know this mother, English teacher gave the class a homework
--t----t----t----t-----r----;--assignment that was due the next day.
It was going to be a long year, considering
everything that had gone wrong already." I think
- I'll go home and sleep until June!" -
· A. Barton ·
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Homework and tests aren't the only back-breaking parts of
school. Fighting a stubborn locker that just won 't open is
Freshman Lisa Shulman. (photo by G. Bishop)
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It seems that teachers are always piling on the work,
especially during the first few weeks of school. Proving this - 9 ~ -
right are Sophomores Julie Eckersley, Lisa Dolinski , and Chris
Moorhead and their piles of books. (photo by G. Bishop) I I
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