On the first day of school, my sister and I entered the school, not knowing where to go. Fortunately, a man approached us and said, "What's your name?" he said it so fast that I thought I was in a Chinese school. "Can you say that slower, please?" I said in broken English. "What-is-your-name?" he asked again. With my eyebrows raised, I threw a bewildered glance at my sister. She looked at the man and said, "His name is Nour Aulabi, and mine is Sara Aulabi." He looked at the list he had and before he left he said, "Go to ESL 07." It took us 15 minutes to decode 'ESL 07.' Eventually, we got to our class. During the first period, we filled out a lot of paper work. After the bell rang, I was ready for my second-period teacher to come in. "Where is everyone going?" I asked my sister. "I don't know, but let's just follow them." She replied. Back home, teachers would go from one

On the fourth day of school, my chemistry teacher announced that we were going to have a vocabulary quiz. "Now I know what the word quiz means," I said to myself. My chemistry teacher didn't really call it a quiz; she said it was merely a "reality check." When I returned home, I opened my chemistry book and decided to study the words from the glossary. I didn't know any of the vocabulary words. I couldn't understand a word from the definitions of the words. Worst of all, I didn't find any of these words in the dictionary. Later, I discovered that I was reading the Spanish glossary of the words. Although I was frustrated, I had an idea and smiled. "I might find a Arabic glossary too," I thought to myself. Soon after my hope was raised, a cloud of disappointment covered my mind; I didn't find an Arabic glossary.

class to another, and students would stay in the same room, but we discovered that the school system is different over here.

On the second day of school, we had a quiz in biology. "Mrs. Bishop, you didn't tell us that we have a test today," we complained. "Yes, I told you yesterday that we were going to have a quiz today," she replied. My sister and I learned that the word 'quiz' means test. After students took the 'quiz,' my sister burst into tears because she thought she didn't do well. I thought so too. As everyone was unchanged, our self-confidence was collapsing, and we felt that we were the worst.

On that same day, there was a parent-teacher conference. We went with our father jus

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