A New School by Devin Hudson

When I was a freshman I had to move from New Orleans to Athens because my town was flooded. I had to meet new friends. I didn’t want to do that because I wanted to graduate with my friends that I grew up with. It was a learning experience for me. When I received my schedule, I didn’t know where to go until I was assisted by this girl. She walked me to my class, and I was asking her how the school was and she said it’s fun so I was like I’m straight once I meet some new friends, but I really didn’t want to talk to nobody.

When I walked in class, people were talking to me and asking me about New Orleans. They said they had another dude from New Orleans named Lionell in the class, but I really wasn’t fooling with that boy because I heard he was fake. There were a lot of girls wanting to talk to me because of my accent, and I made a lot of friends quick. I was not doing my work most of the time, as I only passed like three classes my whole freshman year.

I think that the freshmen can learn a lot from me because of all the mistakes I made when I was a 9th grader. I can encourage them to do everything they can to pass as many classes as they can. I can tell them to do all their work and try not to engage in bad activities like I did. It is important as a freshman to get as many credits as you can because you can fall behind early and that can lead to not graduating on time or not graduating at all.

When you are coming to a new town as a freshman, it is very hard to stay focused and it’s a big transition. For example, in New Orleans we wore school uniforms to school and when I moved to Athens we had to wear regular clothes! I didn’t have that many clothes because I left most of them in New Orleans because I thought we would be back in like 3 days. Come to think about it, I never went back except to visit. Another big transition was making friends. In New Orleans, I thought that the people I was with were the people that I was going to graduate with. I was wrong!