Cy's report on the first day of school

 [Cyrus writes:]

Helloooooooooooooo!!!! This is Cy again! Now, I have to tell you how my first day of school went. So, it began as we walked into the gates of the school, “Rio Verde”. We had come with our cousins Eva and Dominic. We walked in and it was super crowded. Parents kissing kids, kids yelling their head off, and the teachers yelled and immediately all the kids got into lines with their parents behind them. I hurried over to my teacher’s line with Eva because she was in my class. The Mom in the line next to me said in Spanish, “is this a new student?” My dad replied, “Yes” Then, my line started going in. I walked with Eva to the classroom. All the kids hurried to get good seats in the room. Eva grabbed a table so she and I could sit down. It was right next to the teacher’s desk. My teacher said, “We have a new student. Would you like to introduce yourself?” I stood up and said, “Hello my name is Cyrus” then I sat down. I was a bit embarrassed from that and to my more embarrassment, tears welled up in my eyes. Eva noticed and helped me wipe my tears away with my shirt. Luckily, no one noticed. Then my teacher spoke rapid fire Spanish and I had no idea what he was saying so I just thought my own thoughts. I realized that, no matter how nervous I was, since I did not speak the language, school was pretty boring. Suddenly, Eva told me it was time for snack/recess. I had gone to the restaurant nearby our house called, “La Italiana” and gotten a little cookie/cracker thing. I had that for snack. Eva had nothing. The cookie/cracker thing was about the size of my ring finger next to my pinkie finger. It was not big. At recess, Eva told me about this club game she did. The club was called, “the smurfs” this random kid in the grade designed which smurf we would be like our age and our name. Then, we would walk around the playground. I was smurf feno, which means boy who is normal. The guy tried to make me smurf feo, but Eva and I convinced me to be smurf feno. Eva was smurf fena, which means, girl who is normal. The guy was papa smurf and I had no idea what the rest of the people where. Then he chose our ages. Eva was seventeen, and I was sixteen. Then the guy changed Eva to age five. Then we went back inside. The teacher, Antonio, talked a little more and then the French teacher came in. she made everyone stand up and say, “Bonjour, ja ma pel Cyrus” I know I probably spelled that wrong. Then the religion teacher came in with the gym teacher and gave us all kisses. The religion teacher had dark grey hair and was pretty short. She wore some red pieces of clothing. She asked me if I was religious and I said no. she said sorry she asked and then left with the gym teacher. The gym teacher had brightly blonde dyed hair and a hearing aid. She wore a bright blue dress and wore lots of makeup. She had a very high voice and was tall. When they left my teacher Antonio came in. he gave us all worksheets to fill in our agenda he made at the front of the room. I made mine rainbow and pretty. Then my teacher started talking rapid fire Spanish and I got bored again. Then, my teacher passed out books to everyone except me and they read the book out loud. I had no idea what they were saying. After that, everyone stood up and got their bags. Eva told me it was time to go home. I got my stuff and headed out the door. When my parents saw me they said, “how was it?” “Great but a bit boring!” I replied. They laughed and I laughed and then my mom took a picture of Eva, Dom, Charlotte, and I. then we went home and got ice cream. It was a pretty successful first day at school.