Describe Your First Day At School

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Describe your first day at school.

You should say
Where was it?
What happened?
Explain how you felt on that day?

Sample Answer

Introduction:

Being an educated person, I have a special attachment with the educational institutions where I studied.
Today I am going to describe my first day at school.

Where was it?

Since this event happened almost 20 years ago, I have a faint memory of that day.
To put my career on an impressive growth trajectory, my dad got my admission done in a school.
I was just 3 years old at that time.
The school was just 200 metres away from my home.

What kind of building was it located in?

The school had a building having four floors with state of the art infrastructure.
The ground floor was for classes up to 4th standard.
The first floor was for 5th to 10th standard.
The second floor had a staff room, canteen, science laboratories.
The third floor had a big library along with a canteen serving mouth-watering delicacies.
The building was environment friendly with adequate arrangements for things like rainwater harvesting.
The roof of the building had solar panels, due to this facility school needed not to buy electricity.

What happened? and Explain how you felt on that day.

Initially, I was not ready to go to school.
I kept crying that morning because going to school was a new experience for me, and I wasn’t mentally prepared for that.
To parents lured me by giving me chocolates.
Upon getting the sweets of my choice, I said yes for going to school
When I entered my class, I again cried after seeing new faces.
However, after some time, I started feeling comfortable.
I had made new friends and played with them
On the very first day, I saw a paradigm shift in my confidence.
Finally, when I left school, I felt jubilant.

Describe your first day at school