The Popular Kid

The next day I woke up right when the clock hit 7, feeling as if someone was pushing me out of bed, I was running around my room brushing and choosing the dress, that would give the best first impression and all. Finally, I got out of the room after changing over 3 dresses. I took the stairs on my way down, and as I reached the ground floor I saw many guys waiting in the lobby to pick up their friends and girlfriends, looking at them I felt all of it was cute and nice which made me miss my friends. I started walking towards CSE blook where classes are, and on my way, I saw a valley that seemed like a road that leads to an Eden garden, the valley was filled with trees, with pink petals and their branches touched each other as if they were reaching out for each other, it was sad I couldn't go through it as my destination was the other way. As I walk in the opposite direction for over 2 blocks, I found the CSE block, as I looked at it, it was more like a box made of glass and some sections of it protruding out.

As I enter the building, the cafeteria was on the left side, and people were rushing in and out of it, there were people eating sandwiches and rushing to the elevator, there were about 10 elevators in that building. I got into one and went to the 11th floor. I got out off the elevator and was completely confused about which side should i go, the class names and numbers, and directions were all written in Korean, so I was looking to ask someone where my classroom was, and there was a 6 ft tall guy, slim body with an oversized black sweatshirt and black jeans, he was looking straight into my eyes and walked towards me, as he approaches me he said "Are you looking for something?", pulled out the slip from my pocket and showed him my class number and said "Can you tell the directions to this class?", with a sweet smile he looked at me and said "So you are the new student in the class,.. By the way, I am kin, we are in the same class." he forwarded his hand as he said those words, I gave a handshake and introduced myself. He then started walking towards left and I followed him, he started telling me how the classes go around here and about labs and all, and as we were walking he gave hifi to almost half the people we walked past through, he seemed like a popular kid in college.

As we reached class he showed me the way in and then went forward to talk to his friends, The classroom was huge, it was about 3 times the one I had back in India. The rows were also built one step higher than the before one and the stage had a huge projector, almost like a home theater. I went and sat in around the 6th row which was almost in the middle of the classroom. As I look around the class all I could see were boys and boys, there wasn't any girl in that class. I then went ahead and tried to initiate a conversation with the guys in the same row as mine "Hey I am Riya, you?", he stuttered a bit, and looking down he said " I am Kim min Jung", then he looked at me with a questioning face and said " you... new student?", I said yes, then he turned away and continued his work in the laptop. I was a bit nervous to talk to someone else as I was afraid I might get the same reaction, as I was mustering up my courage to speak to someone, the teacher entered the room. He was about a 5.8 ft middle-aged man, his hair was gray, and was wearing a black round spectacle. All the students came and took their seats. Kin rose from his place and spoke to the teacher, "Sir don't you see a queen bee in this beehive?" Everyone started laughing, the teacher shouted "Control, control" to him, and the whole class including the teacher was looking at me. The teacher looked at me and said, "Welcome to the class, I am Kim ha Kun your python teacher" I did a half-head bow at him, and then he asked me to give my introduction, after taking a long breath I said "Hi everyone I am Riya, from India, I came here as part of the twinning program and I look forward to getting well acquainted with you all...", as I was saying those words I noticed half of them looking away and some of them smiling at me, it was a mixed reaction which wasn't helping me to continue to speak, so I said "I don't know much Korean so far but I am eager to learn it from you people", the teacher then gestured me to sit down and started to teach," Python is an object-oriented language.....", I zoned out, I didn't pay attention to rest of the class, I felt suffocating and nervous with that intro and those reactions. The next two classes were the same.

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