Less than two weeks ago, I began my four-year journey at Fountain Valley High School. As I entered FVHS, I saw a campus wallpapered with posters, welcoming students to the new school year and promoting the Aloha Dance. I also saw ASB in their cardigans, cheerleaders in their uniforms, and Link Crew leaders in their purple tees, greeting freshmen and answering questions. High school is a life-altering experience and I entered it, feeling scared, nervous, and excited, knowing little about my classmates and even less about the courses and teachers.
I worried whether I could pass my classes, and to add on the stress of the new day, where they even were. I knew that you were given eight minutes for passing periods, and I concluded that I would use all the time wading though thousands of people, including supervision in their zooming golf-carts that never seemed to slow down or even stop, for anyone or anything.
There was still the matter of the classes themselves. Would the teachers be mean, strict, or boring? Or worse, would they assign killer amounts of homework? I found out the teachers were nice enough and the workload depended on each teacher’s preference.
By lunch I had made it through four of my classes with minimal amount of homework assigned. During lunch it seemed the whole campus was busy and crowded. It was impossible to buy anything with the never-ending lines in the awful heat (thank goodness I packed a sandwich). I was eating in the bowl with my friends for the first few days. There were many lunch time activities that kept us entertained such as the flash-mob by ASB, the dance team, and Link Crew.
Overall, it was a great first week for my freshmen year of high school. FVHS made the switch from middle to high school a pleasant experience, and I learned that Fountain Valley was a great, friendly school. As ASB member Melissa Casiano (’12) told me during registration, “We’re classy. Fountain Valley is a classy school.”
