descriptive essay

Kyle Grimes
Joel Murphy
English 51
22 September, 2009

Awkward
Enrolling in to a new school is more than likely to put you into an outcast situation. The first day of high school was pretty bad, but I at least had my friends with me to make it better. But coming to College of the Desert was completely different; I was all on my own. I still have some friends that are attending this school, but I don’t have any classes with them and I never see them around campus. It is a big change for me, and it feels really awkward.
My first day of College of the Desert was summer semester ’09. I came here looking forward to a new experience. But the experience that I got was not what I expected at all. The first thing that went wrong was trying to find a parking spot. Then after that I had problems finding my classes. I got lost and it was morning classes so there was not really anyone around for me to ask. I finally found a security guard and asked him “Where is the LA building?” He responded by just pointing and not saying a word. Again I asked “Excuse me sir, where is the liberal arts building?” He just walked away. Without his help, I found a campus map and finally found my class being ten minutes late. The class was full when I went in so I had to stand in front of the whole class and the teacher let all the people not registered stay in the class until the end and he did not even end up adding any those people. And after that class I had the exact same problems for my next class. I could not find it and there was not that many people in the halls. The people that I asked either did not know, did not speak English, or just ignored me. I just had to rely on the campus guide that I had found on the floor. And the same thing happened in that class. I had to sit on the floor in front of the class. And it seemed like everyone knew each other but me. The class was loud from everyone talking. On top of that the teacher was fifteen minutes late making us stay fifteen minutes after. He proclaimed,” I just had to get my morning coffee before I came in today.” His coffee made me late for work.
This was one of the most awkward, horrible, bad experiences that I have had. I felt like I did not belong there. Everyone was bigger and older than me. There are many people who smoke on campus, I went home smelling like cigarettes. The only good experience that I had there on my first day was going to the student café, the food smells and tastes great and it is all at a reasonable price.
Since that first day of College of the Desert I have learned a lot of the different ins and outs of the campus. There are still things that I do not know or am unsure of. But at least now I do not feel really awkward as I did that first day of school. This semester I had nobody in any of my classes that I knew but just with the experience from that first semester I am more out going and not as shy at school. With that I have made knew friends and meet a lot of really interesting people and I no longer feel awkward or like an outcast.