Short Stories · Section 9
University
It's time to sign up for school. This year Natalie is going to Brock University.
Level: B1 · 36 sentences
Transcript
- It's time to sign up for school.
- This year Natalie is going to Brock University.
- She has never been to university before.
- She is a little bit scared.
- She hopes she meets nice, new friends.
- Natalie stood in line to get her picture taken.
- The picture was put on a card.
- The card was her picture ID (identification).
- She would use this card if she needed to buy books from the school bookstore;
- if she wanted to get a book from the library;
- or if she wanted to use the pool!
- After all of the signing up and money was paid,
- Natalie went out to lunch with her mother.
- "Mom, I'm kind of scared about going to school.
- I'm going to be the youngest kid there.
- I don't know how to take notes.
- The teachers might be mean....",
- Natalie rambled on.
- Her mom just calmed her down and said,
- "Take one day at a time, Natalie.
- Worry only about today".
- "Hmmm. You're right, Mom. Thanks!"
- Natalie was very scared on the first day of school.
- She made sure she had all of the books she needed
- and lots of pens, pencils and erasers.
- She walked into the front of the building
- and went on her way to try and find her classroom.
- Natalie got through her classes and met a lot of new people, nice people.
- Her classes seemed to go by really fast,
- and the day went by even faster.
- When Natalie got home she was so excited.
- She told her mom that classes weren't all that scary;
- the students and the teachers weren't scary either!
- Natalie knew that the school work would be hard,
- but she felt good about the people she had met that day.
- She knew she'd have a good year.