Adventures of Adira: School of Secrets

Chapter 1, Welcome

   Adventure is said to be an experience done in one's life to help one learn new things. I had many adventures when I was in school, some were very special to me, and taught me what friendship, love, bravery, and trust is. So I decided to write them down and like every good story I will start from the beginning.

   I live in a boarding school on an island in the Atlantic Ocean with my twin brother, Lewis. I have been in this school ever since I was three, you see my parents are scientists and they tend to travel a lot, and we rarely see them, but they told us that no matter the distance as long as Lewis and I are together they can feel our love and we can feel theirs.

   In that school, you get four roommates, me and my brother, sorry, my brother and I never had roommates. My teacher has always warned me about my grammatical mistakes. Anyways it was the day before the first day of ninth grade and I woke up in a rush, excited about what the new school year has in store for me. Especially since I found out that I will finally get roommates. Goodbye years of loneliness, though I can't help but stress who they are and how their personalities will be. I am usually a patient tolerant person but I can't handle mean people, one is enough in my life.

   I stood at the entrance of the school waiting for a new face to approach. Standing there I noticed how big the school looked from the outside. You see, the school is made up of three floors. The ground floor, which we also call the first floor, is the school floor, where the classes are. When you enter you stand between two staircases, and the hall is considered very vast compared to the other floors, mainly because when there is rain many students gather there in the recess.

   Anyways there are 27 classrooms, a teacher's room, the principal's office and the school office, a library, an auditorium, a music room, an art room, and a detention room. There are also bathrooms for the kindergarteners alone, and bathrooms for the other students.

   When you enter the first room on the left side is the teacher's room, and next to it is the school office and principal's office. There is a little gap between the office and the first kindergarten class, which is located at a corner. Next to that class comes the kindergartner's bathrooms that have a hall between them that leads to the kindergarteners' playground. After the bathrooms come two more kindergarten classrooms, then comes two classrooms for the first graders, and it continues like that for second and third graders. The reason why the classrooms for these classes are put on the same side as the kindergarteners' classes is because they are designed differently. They are smaller than the other classrooms and the desks are smaller.

   At the corner, and beside the third-grade classrooms come the library. The library is very big, but it has only 24 chairs for the students. That's because the library is only used during recesses, no one is allowed to study there after school hours unless they are in a club.

   The classrooms for the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh graders are located in front of the entrance, and next to them comes the bathrooms. The girls and boys have different stalls and between them come a hall that leads us outside into our recess. After the bathrooms and at the third corner comes the eighth graders' classroom, and it continues like that till grade 12.

   And finally next to the door but at the right comes the auditorium, music room, art room, and the detention room. The art room is also used as a chemistry lab because it has sinks and non-flammable tables, but surely the teachers put the chemicals in the teacher's room so that no student can play with them.

   The other two floors are sleeping floors, where the bedrooms are located. The second floor has the bedrooms for the preschoolers where the rooms have more than four beds in them, and the rooms for the primary schoolers where there are 2 sets of bunk beds in every room.

   The third floor is for us, at the moment. There are about twenty-six bedrooms for grades seven, eight, and nine, a laundry room, five teachers' bedrooms, a kitchen, and seven bathrooms for girls in a little hall, and six bathrooms for the boys in another small hall.

   The kitchen is actually not put in a room, it just fills the gap between a girls' bedroom and the back of the hall for the girls' bathrooms. Similarly, there are couches placed between another gap between rooms, right in front of the kitchen. And finally, due to the fact we can't study in the library after school, the school has placed 80 desks in the hall on the third floor, and fifteen tables with four chairs each to let us students eat on.

   So that's how the school is structured. And you may wonder where the other students sleep, well they sleep in separate houses located on the island.

   Anyways, I waited a lot and saw a lot of my old friends but not a single unfamiliar face. But finally, after all this time I saw a new girl walking towards the door.