My First day in Kindergarte
It was my first day in kindergarten. I didn't understand why I had to come to this place away from my home where my mommy and daddy never left me alone. My mom drove me to this building and took me inside and left me with a lady I had never seen before in my life. I started crying because I didn't know why my mom would leave me with a stranger. She said it'll be ok and she'll come back to get me in a few hours. My brother was just next door in a class known as the first grade. I wanted to go to the class my brother was in. I started crying and they took me to my brother. He asked me why I was crying when mommy was going to be back in about 3 hours and until then I can play games and eat ice cream. So I stopped crying and they took me back to my kindergarten class. I was introduced to Sally, Michelle, and Kevin who seemed to be having the time of their life coloring. I joined them and I found that being at this place was not so bad after all. The teacher started to show us letters of the alphabet, and I wondered why we needed so many letters. She told us that in English, we read and write from left to right. I found this very weird because I had been taught to read Urdu and Arabic fro
Well, that was my first day of my lifelong education, as my dad says. I was hoping the next day would be a better day and I hoped I could somehow make it to the bathroom everyday during naptime. I wished they wouldn't trick me into eating pork and that I could draw and color better than other people in my class. But when I got my first paper back in which I wrote the ABC's, there was a golden sticker shaped like a star at the top of my paper, and I knew I was going to be one smart child. Lunch was served to us, and it was nothing like what I usually have at home. They gave us hotdogs with buns and ketchup. At home, mom gave me rice and chicken. The hotdogs tasted very different, but they were good so I ate them anyway. We introduced ourselves to one another and showed the class what we had colored. It seemed as if everyone's picture was much better than mine, so I was very nervous because my turn was coming up. Once my turn came, I described the house, clouds, sun, and trees in my picture. The teacher and everyone said it was good, and I know they were lying to me because you always lied to a child if it made them feel better. m right to left, but I kind of started understanding it anyway. I was one of the fastest learners in my class,
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