I walked through the corridor, eventually stumbled into the front desk, and then I asked the teacher at the front desk.
"Hello, Ms., I'm the new transfer student. Can I ask you something?"
The teacher at the front desk turned around to look at me, staring straight at me with a glare that looked like it could cut glass, but gave a clear, straight, and stern answer.
"What is it ?..."
I then gave my question.
"I was wondering where my designated classroom is?"
She then pondered for a few seconds before turning back to me while letting out a quiet, small, soft sigh.
"Stay here...."
She then turned to the opposite direction then walked out of sight or view. I waited for a while, resting on a nearby bench. Students passed by me, some talking to each other, some just walked through the hallway like normal, and some gave glances or whispers about me.
Sigh... why always like this
"Hey, you !" a voice was directed at me. I turned back, facing a person. She had warm, dark brown hair, with a pair of amber colored eyes, another student at a glance.
Replied to her with
"Yeah?"
What and why did she call me out of all people?
She then answered me.
"Where's the front desk teacher ?"
I genuinely don't know.
"She's busy, I saw her go that way," I pointed in the same direction that the teacher went. Then I continued, "By the way, are you also a transfer student ?"
She then answered me with a steady voice.
"Yes, I assume you're asking me because you're also a transfer or a guide."
I immediately answered her with a faint smile as I spoke, "I'm the former".
She then speaks up again, "Well, guess we are in the same situation". She let out a small smile as she introduced herself as Nadia, and I introduced myself.
Then the front desk teacher finally came with a paper in her hands, typed with words. I saw one of the letters said my name. The teacher walks towards me and gives me the paper. I examined it, and it's like a guide having the printed map of the school and my data.
Class 9C, huh?
But then, when I glanced back at the teacher, she was at her desk staring at Nadia. I could sense the tense atmosphere. The teacher gave Nadia faint, dirty looks to Nadia, and those dirty looks also reflected in Nadia.
Sigh..... not another drama...
I walked off but didn't forget to say.
"Thank you, Ms."
I looked at the sheet of paper that I am holding, and in that sheet of paper is the map of the school. I followed it. Went up the stairs to the 4th floor, where more students were also going up the stairs to their class, and then I arrived at class 9C.
Why is it always so.... Chaotic
My hands reached out for the door and entered. Some students glance at me while I am entering the class, and some students give me judgmental and weird looks.
I looked for a seat to sit on and spotted an empty seat, in the furthest column from the teacher, and in the second row.
I looked at the paper as I let down my backpack.
Damn it! The first period is mathematics.
Then I take out my notebooks and the math book. As the teacher walked inside, she looked stern.
"Okay, class, let's first introduce ourselves before going to our first chapter of math, which is 'algebraic form', because we have a lot in ninth grade."
Many students go up to the front and introduce themselves. Unfortunately, it's now my turn to introduce myself.
Be 'normal'.
"Hello, my name is Agung Kulong, call me Agung, I'm from the central Depok, my hobby is gaming."
Then I immediately sit down at my desk. As the teacher speaks.
"Kids nowadays are always playing on that damn phone."
Her ramblings go on, and the teacher pet keeps asking her to speak with her, making it longer. I then joked about this.
"Let's go... I hope she keeps on blabbering... so we don't study mathematics."
Then the kid next to me heard me and gave a smile, then said.
"I know, right ?"
I then gave a smile and joked around him, and now he showed me to the others. Then the bell rang, and the teacher was still blabbering about 'kids nowadays'. While she is packing her items, she addresses the class.
"Homework is on page 5 of your textbooks."
Just as she said that she went out of the class to another classroom. I opened my book to page 5, wondering what the homework looks like. I calculated the total, it's double 10 questions. But then I remembered that this is a computer class, so I got my books and went to the computer room. After computer class, I went to take my lunch box, then Nadia came.
"What do you have for lunch ?" she questioned me.
"Just some fried rice and a pudding for dessert," She glances at the pudding, her eyes get excited, "Can I have it ?". "Sure"
She then took it and ate the pudding. We talked while eating lunch. Then the bell rang, signaling the end of break time.
I go back to 'studying', but it was all mostly filled with ice breakers, until the end of the school day, at 2 PM.
Finally! Freedom, just when I begin to feel sick with these icebreakers.