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## secretoracle's Games => Back Issues => Topic started by: secretoracle on August 25, 2006, 01:45:51 PM

Title: Getting your bearings Post by: secretoracle on August 25, 2006, 01:45:51 PM Oak Park High School is a big place. A student body of over 3,000 makes for a lot of faces, but not the first day. August 30th, it's only the Freshman that are there, less than 1,000 students, making Oak Park almost seem like a ghost town. You picked up schedules and books and were herded around like fresh cattle. You got assigned lockers and passed by tables with sign-up sheets for clubs and organizations, everyone trying to get you to join them. Principal Landis walked the halls, shaking hands and meeting people like he was running for public office. Some of you see familiar faces from middle school, but there is hardly time for waves and "Hey" as you pass in the halls, trying to figure out what room your next class is in. You overhear muttered complaints about what all the rooms for a class can't be on one floor. Why the Freshman aren't allowed to leave for lunch and why the Freshman have to start a day earlier then everyone else. Those of you already on teams or squads get your practice schedules and the phone list, adding one more thing to your already crammed list of places to be. You're shown the library, computer, and resource rooms. It's all the same stuff from when you went to middle school, only more of it and spread out over a larger space. The end of the first day wasn't so bad, it made it feel like the year might not be as bad as you thought. Friday the 31st it's a different story. The entire student body is on campus, and Oak Park goes from being a ghost town to a mall on sale weekend. Tha pace is faster, and those of you who have problems with schedules spend most of the morning in the office working with the councelors trying to get it sorted out. Shirting classes around, getting lost all over again trying to find rooms that are numbered, yet mysteriously out of order. The only saving grace is that this will be a long weekend, one more last gasp of fun before school really sinks in. [Anyone signing up for any particular extra-curricular club or group, let me know] Powered by SMF 1.1.4 | SMF © 2006-2007, Simple Machines LLC