Let's Do This

Time for Eighth Grade

I walked off the bus and into the familiar junior high for the first day of eighth grade. "Gotta do my best this year..." I mumbled to myself.

A familiar grey backpack was seen in the corner of my eye and I automatically turned to the right.

"GRACE!" My name rang in my ears as I got tackled by Ashley. I looked to behind her and saw Niko with his grey backpack.

"Hola guys!" I said whilst waving. "Schedule check?" I asked, holding my schedule up.

They replied with a "yeah" and then we were checking each others schedules. A few 'YES!' And "aw!'s later, we concluded that Niko and I had band together (of course, we both chose to be in symphonic), and Spanish, and Ashley and I had Science (looks like we're gonna be breaking more equipment this year, oops), and US history.

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"It's the first day of school, and we already broke a desk..." I said to Ashley. Of course we were in Science where we can do what ever we want in the last ten minutes of the period. Ashley and I decided to sit on a desk (no, we weren't that heavy that we broke it), and we were swinging.

"I told you we should stop!" I whispered loudly to her when another teacher came in the room asking if we were okay. He probably thought we made bomb.

"Well, it's not my fault I didn't know the leg of the table was loose..." She said innocently.

I sighed and looked at our desk which we broke. I started laughing when a thought came in my head. Ashley looked at me confusingly and I explained.

"This is probably a sign that we shouldn't be scientist." I kept laughing, then she joined.

The bell rang it I headed towards my favorite period of the day. BAND

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I skipped through the halls with Niko and Anthony and went into our favorite room in the whole school.

"Time to meet the newbies!" I almost yelled when we went into the band room.

They both agreed and we just stood in the band hall guessing who played what.

"I bet he plays trumpet!" "She must play the clarinet." "He looks like a trombone player." And we kept guessing until the bell rang, and the band director started talking.

"Mkay! New year, new band." She started. "Flutes here, clarinets there, oboes, bassoons..." She said every instrument and pointed to where they should be seated. Niko and I made our way into the front where the flutes sat and looked on who we guessed right and wrong. I even started laughing when I got it right.

I looked around my new flute section and saw all the unfamiliar faces of the seventh graders. There's was one other Asian girl, one Indian looking dude who was short, and the other typical faces of flute players.

After the band directors saying rules and everything, it was time to introduce ourselves to each other.

I looked to the Asian girl and caught her eye. "Hey I'm Grace!" I said nicely. She smiled and said her name was Britney.

I turned to my right and saw Niko introducing himself to the Indian guy, whose name was Ben.

I smiled and thought to myself. Lets make this year in band memorable.