Ship Life: Life's Challenge

Chapter 2: New Grounds

Ricca approached me with an even more bright smile than before. The moment she approached me, she stared  at Celine.
"So...Ce-line. You're new here?" Ricca is still interested to talk like before.

"Yes I am." Celine smiled.

"Did you make friends with Christel? By the way, the name's Ricca." I could see how horrible she words her sentences. Maybe she needs to read more books, perhaps.

"Cool. Is your hair always like that mate?" Wait...What?! Is Celine Austrailian? She doen't look like one to my eyes at all! She looks more Chinese than that!

"You Aussie bro?" Ricca's facial expression was priceless. It looked so funny that I wanted to laugh but I didn't want to burst in laughter infront of the other students in the classroom. I have to keep my calm cool.

"Me no Aussie. Me is Chinese-Filipino bro." What is up with Celine's speech all of a sudden? This is very weird.

"Guys, why are you speaking this way in broken English and informal English?" I'm curious.

"Dunno." Ricca speaking in informal English is very awkward for me to hear.

A boy approached us with a soft smile. Ricca turned around and...
"YO JAN VIER! YOU STILL HERE BRO AND WERE IN THE SAME CLASS TOO!"

"That was very loud, Ric." He said. He sort of frowned playfully.

Wow, another student for me to know. I wonder how this would turn out to be.
Ricca turned around again and introuced Celine and I to Jan Vier. We smiled at each other, did some simple conversation, and became friends.

The teacher entered our classroom and greeted us with a welcoming welcome.
She let us introduce ourselves one by one in class. Each and every person in class had an interesting way on how they introduced themselves. Ricca's was exceptionally weird. Majority of the class laughed at her introduction. Celine felt a little shy staying infront of the classroom. That's fine, everyone has felt shyness at least once.
There goes my turn to introduce myself in class. I did the simple way of introducing oneself: saying their name, their age, and their likes.
The awkward part of my introduction was when a guy asked me where I came from. I answered, "From my mother's womb."
Ricca started laughing loudly. Everyone started looking at her. The teacher laughed along too but more silently.

I went back to my seat and Celine leaned over to me and said, "Good job."
"Hahah, that what I could answer."
I shruged along with it.

The teacher next gave a boring lecture about the school's rules and regulations and let us respond with an 'I agree with the rules and regulations' agreement. She even said something interesting about uniforms. I can't wait for her to hand out a brochure about it.
Our schedule was not a big thing to talk about but class starts at 9 due to the fact that our classroom is really far from the dormitories.

WE GET TO CHOOSE OUR ROOMATES!
Ricca invited me and Celine to be roomates in our dorm. That was a nice offer and I don't have to worry choosing people to sleep with me my dorm anymore. Jan Vier and this other boy named Juan will also sleep along with us in our dorm room.

It was already lunch time and Ricca and Jan Vier led us to the cafeteria to eat good lunchfood. I was so fascinated by the design of the cafeteria and I was also fascinated by their utensils, too.

We sat on a table near the exit because Jan Vier said we could escape to safety faster than any other part of the interior. Smart thinking though.
I looked at the food I bought and it looked very delicious. Seafood pasta slathered with Marinara Sauce and a basil leaf on top of it. It looked so good that I wanted to cry.
"This is typical lunch food here." Jan Vier seemed to knew my reaction to the lunch placed on my plate.

"It looks very good...I'm eating this right now!" I was so excited. I spun my fork into the pasta and placed it in my mouth. The flavours bursted like fireworks in my mouth indicating that it was so good. It felt like was in heaven. There was an orange juice drink in a carton and it looked delicious by the cover. I drank it and it was refreshing. Ten out of ten, would drink again.

I finished my lunch along with the rest of my newly made friends. We walked around the courtyard located near the highschool section of the building and I enjoyed the landscape. It was very unique and it was neatly done. There were a lot of flowers and butterflies, too. Pretty.

"I always loved walking around the courtyard when I'm free." I saw Ricca inhale and exhale in big relaxed breaths. She looks pleased. Same goes to Jan Vier. Celine was sight seeing, a faint smile was seen on her face. Winds was blowing smoothly arond us. I would call it a gentle breeze. It felt great.

"It feels great out here but we should stay out here for so long, we'll be late for class, sort of." Celine said.

"Yeah, we shall go." I inhaled one more time and started walking towards the highschool section entrance. There goes another session of walking all the way to the classroom for 1.8 km.

"Hey Celine, do you know what club you would like to join?" I was holding another brochure that was about the different clubs available in th school. I was hard choosing one that I would enjoy in.

"I don't know what to choose eventually." Celine did look at me in the eye because she was so focused reading each name of the clubs.

"Maybe you could join my club!" Ricca bursted out behind my ear.

"What's the name?" Celine asked.

"It's the Ship Life club! You live in the ship that is technically where you'll sleep with me and do our club activities!" Ricca is so cheery and happy all the time.

"I'M IN!" Celine shouted out.

"Tell me more about the club." I wanted to know more so I could be convinced to join the club.

"You'll find out once you join." Ricca winked at me. I wonder what that meant.