Have you ever been so excited that your heart can’t stop beating? That’s how I was my first day at the university. I was very excited, but also I was frightened. I was about to meet the people who were going to be with me for four years. I kept asking myself; “would they be nice? Can I meet some good friends here?” That morning I woke up too early and arrived at the university early. When I got there, I just sat on the Philosophy Department stairs waiting for someone else to arrive.
The minutes passed and nobody arrived… 5, 7, 10 minutes and nothing. “Soon it’s going to be the meeting time and nobody else is here” I thought. When it was time and nobody appeared, I began to change my excite for fright and anguish. The time kept passing and nothing… All of the new students were supposed to meet at 8 o’clock, and when I looked at my watch, it was 8:30 so I started to think that I was in the wrong place. Because I was waiting for so long, nobody arrived yet, and there wasn’t anybody whom I could ask where the right place was, I didn’t know what I should do, and I began to feel scared. Suddenly, a guy appeared and sat behind me.
I saw him, and I wanted to ask if he knew something about the meeting, but he looked as lost as I was. After a few minutes, Mauricio, the guy sitting behind me, asked me “Excuse me, what time is it?” So I looked at my watch, and I realized that it was 8:45 already. “What am I going to do?” I thought, “I have to find the meeting place.” Soon another guy named Wilson arrived and before we could realize that he was there, he started to talk