My moment with my friend

Hubert H. Humphrey said, “The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it”. For me, my friends are the most important people for me. I have some great friends with so many beautiful memories that I would even forgot them sometime. However, I can remember what happened when I first went to a boarding middle school in Shanghai. Homesick was so normal for everybody that went to a new school, and I was also affected by that. As a result, this experience helped me to be independent and helped me to find my best friend forever.

I opened my eyes, and it was already six o’clock. Where was I? I was still not getting used to where I lived at that time. I had just started going to junior high school. That was the first time I went to a boarding school. After a month of school days and a seven days break, I started to have home sick.

It was just a normal day after the break. Octobers in Shanghai were always warm and peaceful. I would like the peaceful scene in normal time, but for the time that I had home sick, it just brought me irritation and anger. The leaves weren’t falling and seemed to be a little bit yellow; some small birds were on the branches. The soft winds blew to my face quietly. But none of these beautiful things can make me happy.

I started to complain in my mind. I did blame my parents who went to other cities because of work; I did blame my grandparents who left me and went to look after my little cousin; and I even blame my little cousin who took the love of my grandparents and make me to stay in a boarding school with home sick. It was a beautiful morning, but my mind cannot be as beautiful as that.

I stayed in the school’s dining hall by myself and I didn’t want anyone to stay with me. “Having no friends is better in this condition”, I thought. However, someone came to me without invitation. “What are you doing here? Eating breakfast by your own in a beautiful morning is really a waste of time!” she said. I was a little bit shy and I didn’t know what to say that time. Then, I just stayed and listened to her.

She tried a lot to talk with me. “Why you just don’t talk?” she was confused. “I think the best thing in the world is to talk with your friend!” She smiled like the sunshine in the sky. I looked in her eyes and saw the color that had been reflected by the light of the sun. I asked, “Are we friend? We even don’t have any conversations.” She answered happily, “Of course we are! And we can start the conversation now! Let’s see, um… what’s your favorite activity?” She spoke a lot and she’s really an outspoken girl. I knew more information about her later. She came to me and “forced” me to do things that I seemed don’t want to do. She knew I yearned for doing that. As a result, I found the air changed, everything became better.

Since the relationships between people are so magical, we soon became good friends. Later, my friend also helped me to join in the new place and I started to do something I didn’t want to do before. She made me feel better and told me what she felt when she got homesick at the first year of boarding school. For my friendship, my best friends are always with me and helped me a lot to be a girl with confident instead of being a shy girl. We would be best friend forever and I would try me best to help her if she met any problem.

Then I became an independent girl, which can help me a lot. During my middle school life, I learned how to wash my clothes myself and I learned how to learn by myself with no one helped me. Also, I started to do better for working in pairs and helping each other, because I’m in a boarding school that all my classmates need to help each other as family members.

As a result, I got into the new condition that I lived. After 3 years, I got to Cheshire Academy and tried to help other people who had the same feeling as me at that time. Also it made me better for fitting in my high school life in another country. Lastly, I want to say it’s difficult to live by yourself in a new place, and it’s really great to be an independent person, but if people have a friend, that’s even better.