2018 back-to-school contest: 'A fresh start' by Bibi Remsha
We asked our readers to write a poem or a piece of creative writing about "a fresh start" for their chance to win an amazing back-to-school haul. Here is one of the entries, which has not been edited
I recently moved to another district in Hong Kong ,as we moved me and my sister had to quit the school we studied and joined the school that is near our new home. I just didn't wanted to change the school as I was close with the friends back at previous school. As my family couldn't afford the money to pay for the bus fee so i gave up and changed the school as my parents told. My mom said to me it might be hard on the first day of school but eventually i will get used to the new school, i just nodded at whatever she said. I went to sleep and my dad came in to my room and kissed on my forehead and said "It's a fresh start and best of luck for your first day of school".On the first day of school our class teacher asked me to introduce myself to others. At recess time one of my classmate approached me and we both started talking about random things and we made a plan to hang out after school. The recess was over in 15 minutes and we went back to the class . Our math teacher asked me to introduce myself to him. When the lesson was about to finish Mr Lu (Math teacher) just wanted to tease all of us so he said here is the homework you all need to finish and hand in to me tomorrow. Everyone said "What a fresh start" while sighing and rolling there eyes. The teacher giggled and said he was just kidding, we all smiled and laughed at that and that is how my first day of school went.