The High Light in Your Days

By: June Li (age 13)

Everyone needs friends. You need friends to brighten your day and cheer you on. You need friends to share your happiness and your worries with. A true friend is like your own sister or brother sometimes. A person or group to laugh with and play with always makes you happy. You won’t be alone at school.

Blend in with a Crowd

The first thing you need to do is blend in with a group of people that you think suits you the best. Like a group with students who think like you and share the same interests. Listen to what they are saying and join in on the topic, act friendly towards them and get to know them, and their interests. Pick up on an interesting topic and be funny and outgoing. Don’t make it look like you are nervous. When I was new at school, I had no one to play with. During the school year, I was playing a string game and some girls came and joined in. We talked about the strings and ways you could make it and that’s how we became friends like we are now.

Find a Group with the same Persona as You

Try finding friends that you think will actually suit your tastes and a group that you will have a good shot at joining. One of my friends tried going for the popular group when she herself wasn’t one of them, so they didn’t accept her. She later joined the ESL group with people who like to speak Chinese and are a bit wild. She fit in that group perfectly. Friends need to suit you in the long run, go for the trustworthy people and a persona that fits you the best. By looking around your school you can see that groups are made by similar interest. So your goal for finding a friend is their personality traits, they must suit you.

Tip: Don’t always give your attention only to one or two friends; try playing with all of them, that way more and more people will want to be your friend. 

So friends are school days happiness; don’t be sad if they aren’t your friends right away, friendship develops in time. And I wish you the best of luck with your friends!