THAT FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

The first day of school is where the New Year’s resolution came from. It was on that day, that sad day after a carefree summer that we vowed that our books would be in perfect condition, we would wear brand new clothes, and all our study habits would be a model of student productivity.

The first day of school was also the day that one would crack open a new book and smell the newness that lasted only a day, the acclamation of a seating assignment and the get-to- know- you moments with a new teacher.

It was fresh and new, a change from the boredom that summer delivered during the dog days of August that any first day of school brought.

And so we start another school year, with the same vows being offered over and over again by each student, a calmness and disorientation of riding a school bus, and the memories of those last days of school in June just gone by.

One question that always came to mind was; when is our next day off? Another was will I be able to do the work, and will we be getting homework? Rumors ran rampant about the teacher, the expectations of the coming term, and the grown up feeling one had over the lowly lower classmates.

And who could forget the night before the first day of school, the sadness that there are no days off anymore, yet the eager anticipation of the new school year.