My first day at College - From my English Language Homework

Hello whoever might be out there, 

I have been asked this question so many times yet I still don’t really know how to respond! How on Earth do I describe my first day at College? Not ideal, I can’t lie. Climbing up eight flights of stairs is not for the weak, and unfortunately for me - I am the weak. I don’t think I will ever get used to walking so much, but I guess I don’t have another choice. Forty-five minutes each way is absolutely brutal. My step count has tripled and my legs are dead. Also, why is talking to people so hard? I’m floating around awkwardly like that one DVD loading screen. What I wouldn’t give to be just a tad bit more extroverted rather than feeling my heart trying to break through my chest every time I am near someone I don’t know? I really hope it does get better, but at the end of the day I am just here to learn and get the grades, everything else is just a manic attempt to keep me sane through it all.


Yours faithfully, MD

P.S I know I have disappeared for several months, my bad. Starting College has been a lot. I promise I will come up with something original to post, but in the meantime, enjoy this paragraph from an English Language homework task I had. The prompt was to write a paragraph to a friend about your first day at College, but we analysed the context behind the paragraph. i knew when writing that this wouldn't be reflective of a way of communicating with an actual friend about my first day (which is part of what we analysed) but I did think that it would be a perfect fit for my blog. Maybe this whole time, the "friend" I was talking to were the people of the internet?

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