My new life in Ackley Bridge

The First Day

Hi, my names Caitlin. I moved 2 weeks ago to this town in Halifax, Ackley Bridge. I had to leave everything behind, my friends, school, my family (apart from my parents of course). My mum has a new job here, working in a local bank. Anyway, today is the first day starting at my new school - Ackley Bridge College. I'm super nervous, it's better than starting a new school halfway through the term though because not only is it the first day after the summer holidays, but it's also the first day of this school. It's a merger school of two previous schools in Ackley Bridge. It's still not the best though, because everyone knows people from their previous school they're all going to this new school together. But at least I won't be the only one not knowing my way around. I get dressed into my new uniform, curl my silky, light brown hair and head downstairs for breakfast. My dad has already made me a bagel when I get downstairs, my favourite quick breakfast. My mum is busily getting ready upstairs and making sure she has everything she needs to make a good impression on the first day of her new job. As I'm eating my bagel, I hear my mum hurrying down the stairs. She comes over to the breakfast bar, gives me a massive hug and a quick kiss on the forehead and says she's gonna be late if she doesn't leave now and that she hopes I have a great day. "Alright, see you later love you" I say back to her. She rushes out the house, jumps in her car and drives off. My dad says "we better get going soon, otherwise you'll be late and we don't want that on your first day do we?" I finish off my bagel and grab my bag off the sofa in the living room. I check everything is packed that I need for the day and I go and get my shoes on at the front door. My dad comes over and gives me some money to buy lunch with. I pop it in the back of my phone case so it's safe and stand up. Me and my dad smile at each other and then he says "right let's go!" We get into his car and pull off the driveway. As the car starts moving I get the worst butterflies in my stomach. I'm so nervous. We keep driving, and I'm desperately trying to reassure myself that everything's gonna be okay. We pull onto the road of the school and my dad says "are you ready for this?" "Yeah" I say in a hurry even though inside I'm petrified. I ask him to pull up just a bit before the school not in the car park. He goes "why, are you embarrassed of your old man dropping you off at school?" We laugh as I open the car door and hop out. "Bye dad, love you" I say. "Have a great day sweetheart!" my dad replies. I shut the car door and turn around to face the school. I start walking slowly down the pavement, i just wanna jump back into the car and go back home. My dad begins to drive off while waving at me. I giggle and wave back slightly. I check my watch and notice I'm meant to be inside the school in one minute so I start walking at a normal pace. I walk through the gates and into the reception area. I see a red haired lady looking at me. I awkwardly smile as I walk through into the hallway. There's loads of people hanging around the lockers and chatting and laughing. As I have nobody to talk to, I decide to head straight to my tutor room, the bell will go in 5 minutes anyway. I arrive outside and lean against the wall. There's only a few other people there in a small group, all talking to each other. I take a minute to myself to have a breather and get ready on the inside for my first day here. It doesn't look too bad from what I've already seen, most of the students look nice enough. The bell rings and scares me a little as I was lost in my thoughts but luckily I manage not to show it scared me so nobody looked. A teacher opens the door to our tutor room and starts to let us in. I walk in slowly and smile at the teacher when she goes "morning!" Everyone chooses their own seats, i didn't really know where to sit so I sit at the back, hoping nobody will sit next to me. I'm not saying this in a rude way, I just don't know what to say to new people. However, there's no seats left when a girl comes rushing in 5 minutes late so she takes her seat next to me. Although it wasn't too bad, she smiled and introduced herself to me, she seemed pretty kind. Then the bell rang and we walked off to our first lesson. I check my timetable before I leave the tutor room and see i have English. English isn't the worst subject but it's not the best either. I notice a few others from my tutor go to the same room as me, not the girl who was sat next to me though. The teacher opens the door and lets us in. She smiles at us all, she seems really nice. I was the last person to go in (I did this on purpose so I could hopefully find a seat nobody was sat next to). But when I walk in the only seat left is next to a girl who's chatting with a couple other girls. I slowly sink into my seat next to her, really nervous incase I make myself look stupid in front of her and her friends. She was really kind to me instantly though. The teacher tells us all to quieten down as loads of people were chatting to their mates. She then introduces herself as Miss Keane and goes round the room asking us to introduce ourselves. We all do that and have a pretty normal English lesson. The bell goes and I go to my next lesson - science. Our teacher was Mr Hyatt and I wasn't sat next to the girl I was with in English but i was sat on her table. Science passes (surprisingly quickly actually) and it's now break time. Yay but not yay