Patricia Tonner, Grade 12
I felt strange.
Nobody knew who I was:
Students, teachers...everybody.
New for me, new to them.
The faces were different colors,
And no uniforms like in my country.
All jeans, t-shirts, sports clothes, and sneakers.
The language was very difficult.
All I could hear was, “ZZZZZZZ.”
Confusion.
I was lonely, but at the end of the week
I had new friends.
I knew where the classrooms were, and today
I can speak and write English.
Everything falls into place,
Like the pieces of a cube.