First Day Of School Essay

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The beginning of the school year is one of the most important days of a young student’s life. The first day of school is the day of all days, the holy grail of first impressions. Today is the day where you find out your school schedule, your teachers, your classmates, and where your locker will be for the next one hundred and eighty days of brain melting learning. The first day of school is no joke, it is the day your make your mark. The day of the year where the first impression can either make or break you. Today defines who you are and who you are going to be for the rest of the school year. Today is the day. The day we have all had that bitter sweet feeling towards. We are all so excited to return to school. The fresh, new, stylish pieces …show more content…

The cool, damp morning air blows your freshly blown out curls across your face. You stand in front of your car wearing a pair of skinny jeans, a flowy top, and a black leather jacket and you are feeling hot n spicy just like hot sauce. You take a deep breath and start towards the familiar steel doors painted your school colors. You reach for the door and as you do you smile to yourself because you know this year is going to be your year. The bell rings and you shuffle to your first period health class. You’re greeted by a survey asking the most personal questions. The questions consist of: height, weight, average diet, average exercise and so forth. Taking out a mechanical pencil, freshly from its packaging, you answer the questions honestly. After your classmates and you have finished your assignment your health teacher finally tells you why you had to answer a series of questions regarding the specific details. Coach explains how monthly, school wide, everyone will be sent home with a body report …show more content…

The thought sticks wth you for the rest of the hour. Who are they to judge you on your appearance when half the school faculty is overweight as it is? This. Is. Not. Fair. Sure over summer break you did not keep to your regular eating habits. Of course your splurged and had a few cartons of ice cream here, a campfire or two amount of s’mores, more pizza than you can play Frisbee with, and of course because we are all so grown up, shared a few high caloric alcoholic beverages. As a result of your summer filled will new adventures and friends we will never forget, you sport your summer with your newly found tire around your waistline. You brush the thought off because five pounds heavier can not possibly make a difference, after all you still fit into all of last year’s clothes with no problem. As the school year slowly passes by and the class work piles up faster than you can keep up with, you get your first body report card. Coach slams the white envelope onto your desk. You glare at it, which turns into staring, and eventually you can only focus on that stupid envelope. Carefully, you open the flat package. Scanning the twelve point font, standard times new roman of course, you read that your body is not good enough to pass your school’s new health regulation

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