How I'd survive first day of school??

First day of school, eh? I was just doing a bit of reminiscing, remembering the few times I'd had first days of school. Primary, secondary, most recently tertiary. Thinking back, I find it hard to believe that I'd survived all that.

Before I get to my point, I'm just gonna remember my very first day of tertiary. Of course, that was way different than my first day of kindergarten, or primary school, or secondary. In tertiary, I was aware of these things called self-esteem, and judgments.

That first day, I stepped onto the train, and already felt nervous. Being on the train already had an impact, knowing I was in my own clothes, not a uniform, and heading to somewhere called 'school', not just to town or some other place. You bet it felt weird.

There was an existence of self-esteem, and I was even more aware of the fact that I lacked that. It made things hard for me, when I thought of how I looked like. Did I look okay? Would they think I was weird, or ugly? So many thoughts on my mind.

I can't lie to you, nobody can; first days at a new school will always have these thoughts. This lack of self-esteem, this thought that everyone is looking at you and deciding whether you're alright or not to them.

But you know what? Whatever you feel, everyone in your new class will feel it too. Remember you aren't the only new girl there aren't you? Everyone's new, everyone's nervous, everyone is looking at you, as afraid as you are of being looked at.

First day of school, I'd keep low. I wouldn't want to be loud because that will get people avoiding you. I'm not the type to go over and introduce myself first, but you gotta keep a friendly face instead of a frown so people will approach you if you're a shy person.

Surviving first day of school is actually really easy. At least, you can make it easy. And if you can, then the rest of the school year will be a breeze, just slowly open up more, joke around when you can and just, yeah, be yourself, as cliche as it sounds.

But you should know that you would be forced to make friends. There's gonna be ice-breaking and orientation, shit like that, so you don't have to worry.

That's pretty much it: remember that you aren't the only one who's nervous; either go over and talk to someone first or keep a friendly face if you're shy, just so you'll look approachable; and open up slowly. Hope this helps, my ask.fm friend :-)